Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Tuesday, July 2 3:17 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, July 9 6:57 AM
  • Full Moon Tuesday, July 16 5:40 PM Buck Moon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, July 24 9:20 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, July 31 11:13 PM

Also in July

  • Total solar eclipse Tuesday, July 2, 3:23 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Partial lunar eclipse Tuesday, July 16, 5:31 PM not visible from Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: July 1–5, July 28–31.

Times are in Columbus time (America/New York), and moonrise and moonset are for Columbus. Each day's Moon is turned as it is in the sky of Columbus when it is highest that night (near the New Moon, that day).

June July 2019 August
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
1 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:02 AM
Set: 8:07 PM
Dark night
2 Tuesday
New Moon
3:17 PM
Total solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:54 AM
Set: 9:10 PM
Dark night
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:55 AM
Set: 10:07 PM
Dark night
4 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:04 AM
Set: 10:57 PM
Dark night
5 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:16 AM
Set: 11:39 PM
Dark night
6 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:29 AM
Set: –
7 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 30% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:41 AM
Set: 12:16 AM
8 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 41% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:51 PM
Set: 12:49 AM
9 Tuesday
First Quarter
6:57 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:00 PM
Set: 1:21 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:08 PM
Set: 1:51 AM
11 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 74% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:14 PM
Set: 2:23 AM
12 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 82% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:19 PM
Set: 2:56 AM
13 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:22 PM
Set: 3:34 AM
14 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 7:22 PM
Set: 4:15 AM
15 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:16 PM
Set: 5:02 AM
16 Tuesday
Full Moon
5:40 PM
Buck Moon
Partial lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 9:04 PM
Set: 5:54 AM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:46 PM
Set: 6:49 AM
18 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:23 PM
Set: 7:46 AM
19 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:55 PM
Set: 8:44 AM
20 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 11:23 PM
Set: 9:42 AM
21 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:50 PM
Set: 10:40 AM
22 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:37 AM
23 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 63% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 12:16 AM
Set: 12:35 PM
24 Wednesday
Last Quarter
9:20 PM
Visible: 54% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:41 AM
Set: 1:34 PM
25 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 44% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:08 AM
Set: 2:34 PM
26 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:38 AM
Set: 3:36 PM
27 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:11 AM
Set: 4:41 PM
28 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:51 AM
Set: 5:47 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:39 AM
Set: 6:51 PM
Dark night
30 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:36 AM
Set: 7:51 PM
Dark night
31 Wednesday
New Moon
11:13 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 5:41 AM
Set: 8:45 PM
Dark night
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday