Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Last Quarter Saturday, May 2 5:00 AM
  • New Moon Friday, May 8 11:23 PM
  • First Quarter Friday, May 15 5:06 PM
  • Full Moon Saturday, May 23 7:38 PM Flower MoonMicromoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, May 31 3:26 PM

Also in May

  • Eta Aquariids meteor shower peak on the night of May 6–7 up to 50 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 9% lit, 6 of 6 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: May 2–10.

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 2043 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
1 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:34 AM
Set: 11:50 AM
2 Saturday
Last Quarter
5:00 AM
Visible: 47% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:09 AM
Set: 12:59 PM
Dark night
3 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 37% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:38 AM
Set: 2:09 PM
Dark night
4 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:04 AM
Set: 3:20 PM
Dark night
5 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:29 AM
Set: 4:32 PM
Dark night
6 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Eta Aquariids meteor shower
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:53 AM
Set: 5:47 PM
Dark night
7 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 3% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:19 AM
Set: 7:06 PM
Dark night
8 Friday
New Moon
11:23 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:48 AM
Set: 8:27 PM
Dark night
9 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:23 AM
Set: 9:50 PM
Dark night
10 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:08 AM
Set: 11:09 PM
Dark night
11 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:03 AM
Set: –
12 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 18% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:08 AM
Set: 12:19 AM
13 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:20 AM
Set: 1:15 AM
14 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:33 AM
Set: 1:58 AM
15 Friday
First Quarter
5:06 PM
Visible: 48% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:43 PM
Set: 2:32 AM
16 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 58% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:50 PM
Set: 2:59 AM
17 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:53 PM
Set: 3:22 AM
18 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 76% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 3:54 PM
Set: 3:42 AM
19 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 84% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 4:54 PM
Set: 4:02 AM
20 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 90% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:54 PM
Set: 4:22 AM
21 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:55 PM
Set: 4:43 AM
22 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:58 PM
Set: 5:07 AM
23 Saturday
Full Moon
7:38 PM
Flower Moon
Micromoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 9:00 PM
Set: 5:35 AM
24 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 10:02 PM
Set: 6:09 AM
25 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:59 PM
Set: 6:50 AM
26 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:50 PM
Set: 7:40 AM
27 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:38 AM
28 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 80% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:33 AM
Set: 9:42 AM
29 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 72% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:10 AM
Set: 10:48 AM
30 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 62% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:40 AM
Set: 11:57 AM
31 Sunday
Last Quarter
3:26 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:06 AM
Set: 1:05 PM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday