Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Monday, August 5 12:55 AM
  • Full Moon Sunday, August 11 10:07 PM Sturgeon MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, August 18 1:45 PM
  • New Moon Monday, August 26 12:17 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 99% lit, 0 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Ramadan begins Wednesday, August 28 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: August 1–2, August 23–31.

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).

July August 2041 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday
1 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:44 AM
Set: 11:14 PM
Dark night
2 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:43 AM
Set: 11:35 PM
Dark night
3 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 12:43 PM
Set: 11:57 PM
4 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 1:46 PM
Set: –
5 Monday
First Quarter
12:55 AM
Visible: 55% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 2:51 PM
Set: 12:21 AM
6 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 4:00 PM
Set: 12:51 AM
7 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 5:10 PM
Set: 1:27 AM
8 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 6:18 PM
Set: 2:13 AM
9 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 7:19 PM
Set: 3:12 AM
10 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 8:10 PM
Set: 4:22 AM
11 Sunday
Full Moon
10:07 PM
Sturgeon Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 8:52 PM
Set: 5:41 AM
12 Monday
Waning gibbous
Perseids meteor shower
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 9:27 PM
Set: 7:02 AM
13 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 9:56 PM
Set: 8:22 AM
14 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 10:23 PM
Set: 9:40 AM
15 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 82% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:49 PM
Set: 10:55 AM
16 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:15 PM
Set: 12:08 PM
17 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 11:45 PM
Set: 1:21 PM
18 Sunday
Last Quarter
1:45 PM
Visible: 51% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: –
Set: 2:31 PM
19 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 40% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 12:18 AM
Set: 3:40 PM
20 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 12:57 AM
Set: 4:44 PM
21 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 22% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 1:42 AM
Set: 5:41 PM
22 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 2:35 AM
Set: 6:30 PM
23 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 3:33 AM
Set: 7:11 PM
Dark night
24 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 4:34 AM
Set: 7:45 PM
Dark night
25 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:36 AM
Set: 8:13 PM
Dark night
26 Monday
New Moon
12:17 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:38 AM
Set: 8:37 PM
Dark night
27 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:38 AM
Set: 8:59 PM
Dark night
28 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:37 AM
Set: 9:19 PM
Dark night
29 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 8% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:36 AM
Set: 9:40 PM
Dark night
30 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 14% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:36 AM
Set: 10:01 PM
Dark night
31 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:37 AM
Set: 10:24 PM
Dark night