Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Wednesday, August 3 6:27 AM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, August 10 2:10 PM Sturgeon MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Wednesday, August 17 5:46 AM
  • New Moon Wednesday, August 24 5:41 PM

Also in August

  • Perseids meteor shower peak on the night of August 12–13 up to 100 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 94% lit, 0 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: August 21–30.

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).

July August 2033 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:33 PM
Set: 11:55 PM
2 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 43% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:29 PM
Set: –
3 Wednesday
First Quarter
6:27 AM
Visible: 52% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:25 PM
Set: 12:28 AM
4 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 3:21 PM
Set: 1:04 AM
5 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 4:17 PM
Set: 1:44 AM
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 80% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 5:12 PM
Set: 2:30 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 6:04 PM
Set: 3:22 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:54 PM
Set: 4:20 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:40 PM
Set: 5:24 AM
10 Wednesday
Full Moon
2:10 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:22 PM
Set: 6:32 AM
11 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:01 PM
Set: 7:42 AM
12 Friday
Waning gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:39 PM
Set: 8:53 AM
13 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:17 PM
Set: 10:04 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:55 PM
Set: 11:15 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 69% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:35 PM
Set: 12:24 PM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 58% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 1:32 PM
17 Wednesday
Last Quarter
5:46 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:18 AM
Set: 2:37 PM
18 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 36% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:04 AM
Set: 3:38 PM
19 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:54 AM
Set: 4:34 PM
20 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:48 AM
Set: 5:24 PM
21 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:44 AM
Set: 6:09 PM
Dark night
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:42 AM
Set: 6:49 PM
Dark night
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:41 AM
Set: 7:25 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
New Moon
5:41 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:39 AM
Set: 7:57 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:36 AM
Set: 8:28 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:33 AM
Set: 8:58 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:29 AM
Set: 9:27 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:24 AM
Set: 9:57 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:20 AM
Set: 10:29 PM
Dark night
30 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:15 PM
Set: 11:03 PM
Dark night
31 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:11 PM
Set: 11:41 PM
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday