Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Wednesday, April 3 11:13 AM
  • Full Moon Wednesday, April 10 6:37 AM Pink MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, April 16 11:32 PM
  • New Moon Thursday, April 25 12:42 AM

Also in April

  • Passover Thursday, April 11 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 14 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 22–23 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 4% lit, 7 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: April 18–27.

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).

March April 2047 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 31% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:28 AM
Set: 1:16 AM
2 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 40% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:22 AM
Set: 2:08 AM
3 Wednesday
First Quarter
11:13 AM
Visible: 50% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:24 PM
Set: 2:55 AM
4 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 61% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:30 PM
Set: 3:35 AM
5 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:39 PM
Set: 4:11 AM
6 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:50 PM
Set: 4:42 AM
7 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:03 PM
Set: 5:12 AM
8 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 95% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:18 PM
Set: 5:40 AM
9 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:36 PM
Set: 6:10 AM
10 Wednesday
Full Moon
6:37 AM
Pink Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:55 PM
Set: 6:42 AM
11 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:14 PM
Set: 7:18 AM
12 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:31 PM
Set: 8:01 AM
13 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:52 AM
14 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Easter
Visible: 76% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:40 AM
Set: 9:52 AM
15 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 66% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:38 AM
Set: 10:57 AM
16 Tuesday
Last Quarter
11:32 PM
Visible: 55% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:26 AM
Set: 12:04 PM
17 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 45% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 3:05 AM
Set: 1:11 PM
18 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 35% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:36 AM
Set: 2:16 PM
Dark night
19 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 26% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:03 AM
Set: 3:18 PM
Dark night
20 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 18% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:27 AM
Set: 4:18 PM
Dark night
21 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 11% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:50 AM
Set: 5:17 PM
Dark night
22 Monday
Waning crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:12 AM
Set: 6:16 PM
Dark night
23 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:35 AM
Set: 7:15 PM
Dark night
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:01 AM
Set: 8:14 PM
Dark night
25 Thursday
New Moon
12:42 AM
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:29 AM
Set: 9:14 PM
Dark night
26 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 2% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:02 AM
Set: 10:14 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 5% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 7:40 AM
Set: 11:11 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 11% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:25 AM
Set: –
29 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:17 AM
Set: 12:04 AM
30 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:16 AM
Set: 12:51 AM
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
4 Saturday