Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Saturday, May 4 6:47 PM
  • First Quarter Saturday, May 11 9:13 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, May 18 5:12 PM Flower Moon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, May 26 12:35 PM

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 5–6 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 3% lit, 6 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Ramadan begins Monday, May 6 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 1–7, May 27–31.

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).

April May 2019 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:17 AM
Set: 5:14 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:44 AM
Set: 6:13 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:11 AM
Set: 7:15 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
New Moon
6:47 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:40 AM
Set: 8:18 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:12 AM
Set: 9:22 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:48 AM
Set: 10:27 PM
Dark night
7 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:31 AM
Set: 11:32 PM
Dark night
8 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:20 AM
Set: –
9 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:17 AM
Set: 12:33 AM
10 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:20 AM
Set: 1:28 AM
11 Saturday
First Quarter
9:13 PM
Visible: 46% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 12:28 PM
Set: 2:17 AM
12 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:39 PM
Set: 2:59 AM
13 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:49 PM
Set: 3:37 AM
14 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:00 PM
Set: 4:11 AM
15 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 87% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:10 PM
Set: 4:43 AM
16 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:20 PM
Set: 5:14 AM
17 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:29 PM
Set: 5:46 AM
18 Saturday
Full Moon
5:12 PM
Flower Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:37 PM
Set: 6:21 AM
19 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:42 PM
Set: 6:58 AM
20 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:44 PM
Set: 7:40 AM
21 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:40 PM
Set: 8:27 AM
22 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 9:18 AM
23 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:30 AM
Set: 10:13 AM
24 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:13 AM
Set: 11:10 AM
25 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 1:50 AM
Set: 12:08 PM
26 Sunday
Last Quarter
12:35 PM
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:23 AM
Set: 1:05 PM
27 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:52 AM
Set: 2:03 PM
Dark night
28 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:19 AM
Set: 3:01 PM
Dark night
29 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:46 AM
Set: 4:00 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:12 AM
Set: 5:00 PM
Dark night
31 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:40 AM
Set: 6:03 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday