Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Friday, January 4 12:32 AM
  • Full Moon Friday, January 11 8:24 PM Wolf Moon
  • Last Quarter Friday, January 18 5:35 PM
  • New Moon Friday, January 25 8:47 PM

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 51% lit, 5 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus
  • Total lunar eclipse Friday, January 11, 8:25 PM visible from Columbus
  • Partial solar eclipse Friday, January 25, 8:32 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Lunar New Year Saturday, January 26 Chinese calendar

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: January 20–28.

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 2047 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday
1 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:49 AM
Set: 10:57 PM
2 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 36% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:11 AM
Set: 11:56 PM
3 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 45% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:33 AM
Set: –
4 Friday
First Quarter
12:32 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 11:56 AM
Set: 12:55 AM
5 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 64% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:22 PM
Set: 1:54 AM
6 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 73% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 12:53 PM
Set: 2:55 AM
7 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:29 PM
Set: 3:57 AM
8 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 88% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:12 PM
Set: 4:58 AM
9 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:05 PM
Set: 5:57 AM
10 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:06 PM
Set: 6:50 AM
11 Friday
Full Moon
8:24 PM
Wolf Moon
Total lunar eclipse
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:13 PM
Set: 7:37 AM
12 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:24 PM
Set: 8:17 AM
13 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:37 PM
Set: 8:52 AM
14 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:49 PM
Set: 9:22 AM
15 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 84% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:01 PM
Set: 9:49 AM
16 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 75% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:12 PM
Set: 10:16 AM
17 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 64% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:44 AM
18 Friday
Last Quarter
5:35 PM
Visible: 53% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:25 AM
Set: 11:13 AM
19 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:38 AM
Set: 11:48 AM
20 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 31% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:51 AM
Set: 12:28 PM
Dark night
21 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:02 AM
Set: 1:16 PM
Dark night
22 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 13% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:07 AM
Set: 2:13 PM
Dark night
23 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 6% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:03 AM
Set: 3:16 PM
Dark night
24 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:50 AM
Set: 4:24 PM
Dark night
25 Friday
New Moon
8:47 PM
Partial solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:29 AM
Set: 5:32 PM
Dark night
26 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Lunar New Year
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:00 AM
Set: 6:38 PM
Dark night
27 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:27 AM
Set: 7:42 PM
Dark night
28 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:52 AM
Set: 8:43 PM
Dark night
29 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:14 AM
Set: 9:43 PM
30 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 20% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:36 AM
Set: 10:42 PM
31 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 28% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:59 AM
Set: 11:41 PM
1 Friday
2 Saturday