Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Wednesday, January 2 2:08 PM
  • First Quarter Wednesday, January 9 5:07 AM
  • Full Moon Thursday, January 17 2:12 AM Wolf MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, January 25 5:36 AM

Also in January

  • Quadrantids meteor shower peak on the night of January 3–4 up to 110 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 2% lit, 11 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Islamic New Year 1463 AH Friday, January 4 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: January 1–5, January 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).

December January 2041 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:53 AM
Set: 4:00 PM
Dark night
2 Wednesday
New Moon
2:08 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 8:03 AM
Set: 5:06 PM
Dark night
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 9:04 AM
Set: 6:20 PM
Dark night
4 Friday
Waxing crescent
Islamic New Year 1463 AH
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:53 AM
Set: 7:40 PM
Dark night
5 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:32 AM
Set: 8:59 PM
Dark night
6 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 21% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 11:05 AM
Set: 10:14 PM
7 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:32 AM
Set: 11:26 PM
8 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:58 AM
Set: –
9 Wednesday
First Quarter
5:07 AM
Visible: 53% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:22 PM
Set: 12:35 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 63% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:48 PM
Set: 1:42 AM
11 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:15 PM
Set: 2:49 AM
12 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:47 PM
Set: 3:55 AM
13 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:24 PM
Set: 4:59 AM
14 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:07 PM
Set: 6:01 AM
15 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 3:57 PM
Set: 6:57 AM
16 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 4:52 PM
Set: 7:46 AM
17 Thursday
Full Moon
2:12 AM
Wolf Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 5:52 PM
Set: 8:28 AM
18 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 6:52 PM
Set: 9:03 AM
19 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 95% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:53 PM
Set: 9:33 AM
20 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 90% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:54 PM
Set: 9:59 AM
21 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 83% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:53 PM
Set: 10:22 AM
22 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:53 PM
Set: 10:43 AM
23 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:54 PM
Set: 11:05 AM
24 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:27 AM
25 Friday
Last Quarter
5:36 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:58 AM
Set: 11:52 AM
26 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:05 AM
Set: 12:21 PM
27 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 27% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:15 AM
Set: 12:57 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:27 AM
Set: 1:42 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:38 AM
Set: 2:40 PM
Dark night
30 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:44 AM
Set: 3:50 PM
Dark night
31 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 7:39 AM
Set: 5:08 PM
Dark night
1 Friday
2 Saturday