Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Monday, January 1 10:07 PM
  • First Quarter Tuesday, January 9 4:28 AM
  • Full Moon Monday, January 15 11:25 PM Wolf Moon
  • Last Quarter Tuesday, January 23 4:05 PM
  • New Moon Wednesday, January 31 1:32 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 6% lit, 11 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: January 1–4, January 26–31.

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 2052 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 Sunday
1 Monday
New Moon
10:07 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:09 AM
Set: 5:19 PM
Dark night
2 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 7:56 AM
Set: 6:16 PM
Dark night
3 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Quadrantids meteor shower
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:38 AM
Set: 7:17 PM
Dark night
4 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:18 AM
Set: 8:19 PM
Dark night
5 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 13% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:54 AM
Set: 9:23 PM
6 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 22% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:29 AM
Set: 10:28 PM
7 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 32% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:03 AM
Set: 11:34 PM
8 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 42% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:38 AM
Set: –
9 Tuesday
First Quarter
4:28 AM
Visible: 54% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:15 PM
Set: 12:41 AM
10 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 65% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:54 PM
Set: 1:49 AM
11 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 75% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:38 PM
Set: 2:57 AM
12 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 85% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 2:28 PM
Set: 4:04 AM
13 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:23 PM
Set: 5:08 AM
14 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:23 PM
Set: 6:08 AM
15 Monday
Full Moon
11:25 PM
Wolf Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:27 PM
Set: 7:01 AM
16 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:32 PM
Set: 7:48 AM
17 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 97% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 7:36 PM
Set: 8:29 AM
18 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 8:39 PM
Set: 9:06 AM
19 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 86% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 9:39 PM
Set: 9:39 AM
20 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:38 PM
Set: 10:11 AM
21 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:36 PM
Set: 10:41 AM
22 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 61% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:11 AM
23 Tuesday
Last Quarter
4:05 PM
Visible: 52% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:32 AM
Set: 11:43 AM
24 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 42% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:28 AM
Set: 12:16 PM
25 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 33% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:23 AM
Set: 12:53 PM
26 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 25% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:17 AM
Set: 1:33 PM
Dark night
27 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 17% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:10 AM
Set: 2:19 PM
Dark night
28 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 10% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:01 AM
Set: 3:09 PM
Dark night
29 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:49 AM
Set: 4:05 PM
Dark night
30 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:33 AM
Set: 5:04 PM
Dark night
31 Wednesday
New Moon
1:32 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:15 AM
Set: 6:07 PM
Dark night
1 Thursday
2 Friday
3 Saturday