Dates and Times of the Phases

  • Full Moon Friday, February 8 10:57 AM Snow Moon
  • Last Quarter Saturday, February 16 2:19 AM
  • New Moon Friday, February 22 6:01 PM

Also in February

  • Lantern Festival Thursday, February 7 Chinese calendar
  • Ramadan begins Sunday, February 24 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: February 17–25.

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).

January February 2058 March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday
30 Wednesday
31 Thursday
1 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 62% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:26 PM
Set: 2:02 AM
2 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:00 PM
Set: 3:03 AM
3 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 79% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:38 PM
Set: 4:02 AM
4 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:21 PM
Set: 4:58 AM
5 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 92% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:11 PM
Set: 5:50 AM
6 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 97% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:05 PM
Set: 6:37 AM
7 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Lantern Festival
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 5:03 PM
Set: 7:18 AM
8 Friday
Full Moon
10:57 AM
Snow Moon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 6:03 PM
Set: 7:54 AM
9 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 7:05 PM
Set: 8:25 AM
10 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 96% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 8:06 PM
Set: 8:53 AM
11 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 91% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 9:08 PM
Set: 9:19 AM
12 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 85% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 10:11 PM
Set: 9:44 AM
13 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 77% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 11:15 PM
Set: 10:09 AM
14 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 67% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: –
Set: 10:36 AM
15 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 57% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 12:22 AM
Set: 11:06 AM
16 Saturday
Last Quarter
2:19 AM
Visible: 46% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 1:31 AM
Set: 11:42 AM
17 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 34% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 2:41 AM
Set: 12:24 PM
Dark night
18 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 24% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 3:52 AM
Set: 1:17 PM
Dark night
19 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 15% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:58 AM
Set: 2:19 PM
Dark night
20 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 7% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:56 AM
Set: 3:30 PM
Dark night
21 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 2% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:46 AM
Set: 4:46 PM
Dark night
22 Friday
New Moon
6:01 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:27 AM
Set: 6:03 PM
Dark night
23 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:02 AM
Set: 7:17 PM
Dark night
24 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Ramadan begins
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:33 AM
Set: 8:29 PM
Dark night
25 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 10% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 9:01 AM
Set: 9:37 PM
Dark night
26 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 17% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 9:28 AM
Set: 10:44 PM
27 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 26% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 9:56 AM
Set: 11:49 PM
28 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 35% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 10:25 AM
Set: –
1 Friday
2 Saturday