When Is the Next Full Moon? Every Date, Time and Sign Through 2027

The Next Full Moon at a Glance

Date	Tuesday, November 24, 2026
Exact full moon	9:53 AM Eastern, 8:53 AM Central, 7:53 AM Mountain, 6:53 AM Pacific
Name	Beaver Moon
Zodiac sign	Gemini, 2°20’ (Sun in Sagittarius)
Supermoon	Yes, about 360,800 km from Earth
Best nights to look	November 23, 24 and 25, rising around sunset
How often	Every 29.5 days on average, so 12 or 13 a year
Full moons left in 2026	Two: November 24 and December 23
Next one after it	The Cold Moon, Wednesday, December 23, 2026, in Cancer, 2°14’, a supermoon
Next blue moon	May 20, 2027 by the seasonal rule; December 31, 2028 by the monthly rule

Full Moon Calendar 2026 to 2027: Dates, Times and Signs

Fifteen full moons, from the Hunter’s Moon of October 2026 to the Cold Moon of December 2027. Dates are the Eastern calendar date. The Pacific time is three hours earlier, which only changes the date once, in the first row. Times come from the US Naval Observatory, converted to US time zones with the daylight time switches on November 1, 2026, March 14, 2027 and November 7, 2027.

Full moon	Eastern	Pacific
Mon, Oct 26, 2026	12:12 AM	9:12 PM, Oct 25
Tue, Nov 24, 2026	9:53 AM	6:53 AM
Wed, Dec 23, 2026	8:28 PM	5:28 PM
Fri, Jan 22, 2027	7:17 AM	4:17 AM
Sat, Feb 20, 2027	6:23 PM	3:23 PM
Mon, Mar 22, 2027	6:44 AM	3:44 AM
Tue, Apr 20, 2027	6:27 PM	3:27 PM
Thu, May 20, 2027	6:59 AM	3:59 AM
Fri, Jun 18, 2027	8:44 PM	5:44 PM
Sun, Jul 18, 2027	11:45 AM	8:45 AM
Tue, Aug 17, 2027	3:29 AM	12:29 AM
Wed, Sep 15, 2027	7:03 PM	4:03 PM
Fri, Oct 15, 2027	9:47 AM	6:47 AM
Sat, Nov 13, 2027	10:26 PM	7:26 PM
Mon, Dec 13, 2027	11:09 AM	8:09 AM

Now the sign and degree. A full moon is the Moon exactly opposite the Sun, so its zodiac position is the Sun’s position at that instant plus 180 degrees. For the Hunter’s Moon the Sun sits at 212°46’ of the zodiac, which is 2°46’ Scorpio. Add 180 degrees and you get 32°46’, which is 2°46’ Taurus. The same sum gives every row below.

Full moon	Name	Sign and degree
Oct 26, 2026	Hunter’s Moon	Taurus 2°46’
Nov 24, 2026	Beaver Moon	Gemini 2°20’
Dec 23, 2026	Cold Moon	Cancer 2°14’
Jan 22, 2027	Wolf Moon	Leo 2°14’
Feb 20, 2027	Snow Moon	Virgo 2°06’
Mar 22, 2027	Worm Moon	Libra 1°35’
Apr 20, 2027	Pink Moon	Scorpio 0°37’
May 20, 2027	Flower Moon, blue moon	Scorpio 29°14’
Jun 18, 2027	Strawberry Moon	Sagittarius 27°33’
Jul 18, 2027	Buck Moon	Capricorn 25°49’
Aug 17, 2027	Sturgeon Moon	Aquarius 24°12’
Sep 15, 2027	Harvest Moon	Pisces 22°53’
Oct 15, 2027	Hunter’s Moon	Aries 21°59’
Nov 13, 2027	Beaver Moon	Taurus 21°31’
Dec 13, 2027	Cold Moon	Gemini 21°25’

Four things to notice in that table:

• Supermoons: November 24 and December 23, 2026, then January 22 and February 20, 2027. The December one is the closest full moon of 2026 and the January one the closest of 2027.
• The smallest one: July 18, 2027, at about 406,000 km, the farthest full moon in the table and right at the far end of the Moon’s orbit.
• Eclipses: February 20, July 18 and August 17, 2027 are all penumbral lunar eclipses. None of the 2026 full moons in the table is eclipsed.
• Two Scorpio full moons in a row: April 20 at the very start of Scorpio and May 20 at its very end. The May one is also the only blue moon of 2027. More on all of these below.

How to Read the Time Where You Live

Astronomers publish full moon times in UTC, the time at zero degrees longitude, and the Hunter’s Moon was full at 04:12 UTC on October 26. US clocks are behind that. In daylight time, Eastern is UTC minus 4 hours, Central minus 5, Mountain minus 6 and Pacific minus 7. In standard time each zone drops one more hour.

So for the Hunter’s Moon: 04:12 UTC minus 4 hours is 12:12 AM Eastern on October 26. Take off one more hour each for Central (11:12 PM), Mountain (10:12 PM) and Pacific (9:12 PM), and all three land on October 25. That is why a Los Angeles calendar dated this full moon the 25th and a New York one the 26th. Same instant, different clocks.

The hour you subtract changes with the clocks. Daylight time ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026, starts again on Sunday, March 14, 2027 and ends on Sunday, November 7, 2027. The tables above already have that built in, so you never need to do the sum yourself, but it explains why the November moons are five hours behind UTC and the summer ones four.

For the whole cycle, not just the peak, read our guide to the moon phases and what each one means.

When to Look: Best Nights and Moonrise

You do not need to be up at 9:53 AM on November 24. The Moon looks full for a couple of days around the exact moment, so the evenings of November 23, 24 and 25 all work. The US Naval Observatory puts numbers on it: the Moon reads 100 percent lit only on the night closest to the exact moment, 97 to 99 percent the night before and the night after, and still 93 to 97 percent two nights out.

A full moon rises around sunset and sets around sunrise, so our advice is to be outside at moonrise and watch it come up. That is also the easy tell for whether tonight is the night. If the Moon is already high in the sky at dusk, it is not full yet: a first quarter Moon rises around midday, and full comes about a week after first quarter.

Why does the Moon look bigger on the horizon? Because your brain says so, not because the Moon is. NASA’s page on the Moon illusion says photographs prove the Moon is the same width near the horizon as high in the sky, so the bigness is an illusion, not an effect of the atmosphere. NASA is also plain that there is still no rock solid explanation. One idea it describes is that trees, mountains and buildings in the foreground trick your brain into reading the Moon as closer and bigger, the way the Ponzo illusion works, but NASA notes that astronauts in orbit see the illusion too, with no foreground at all, so there is likely more going on. What does change low down is the color: NASA says the Moon tends to look more yellow or orange near the horizon. The quick test is to hold up a finger at arm’s length: your fingernail and the Moon are about the same size whether it is rising or overhead.

Full Moon Names, Month by Month

Every month’s full moon has a traditional name. The Old Farmer’s Almanac says many of them come from Native American, colonial American and other traditional North American sources, and that they often reflected seasonal changes, wildlife, plants, weather and the timing of important activities. Not all of them, though: the Almanac says January’s Wolf Moon is thought to have English origins, brought over by European settlers.

Month	Name	Next one
January	Wolf Moon	Jan 22, 2027
February	Snow Moon	Feb 20, 2027
March	Worm Moon	Mar 22, 2027
April	Pink Moon	Apr 20, 2027
May	Flower Moon	May 20, 2027
June	Strawberry Moon	Jun 18, 2027
July	Buck Moon	Jul 18, 2027
August	Sturgeon Moon	Aug 17, 2027
September	Corn Moon or Harvest Moon	Sep 15, 2027
October	Hunter’s Moon	Oct 15, 2027
November	Beaver Moon	Nov 24, 2026
December	Cold Moon	Dec 23, 2026

What is a harvest moon? The Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the September equinox, the one that marks the start of fall. Most years that is September’s full moon, but every three years or so it falls in October, and when that happens the September full moon is usually called the Corn Moon instead. The Hunter’s Moon is simply the full moon after the Harvest Moon.

Both Octobers in our table are Hunter’s Moons, and here is the working. In 2026 the equinox is September 23 at 00:05 UTC, the September full moon is September 26, about three and three quarter days later, and the October full moon is 33 days later. So September 26 was the Harvest Moon and October 26 was the Hunter’s Moon. In 2027 the equinox is September 23 at 06:02 UTC, the September 15 full moon is about seven days before it and the October 15 full moon about 22 days after. September 15, 2027 is the Harvest Moon and October 15 the Hunter’s Moon again. If the equinox is a season you like to mark, our fall equinox rituals are built for it.

What Sign Is the Next Full Moon In, and Why It Matters

The next full moon is in Gemini, at 2°20’. Since a full moon is always opposite the Sun, the Sun is at 2°20’ Sagittarius at the same moment. Every full moon is a conversation between two opposite signs, and this one is Gemini versus Sagittarius: information and curiosity versus belief and the big picture.

That opposition is the whole trick to naming any full moon’s sign. The six pairs are Aries and Libra, Taurus and Scorpio, Gemini and Sagittarius, Cancer and Capricorn, Leo and Aquarius, and Virgo and Pisces. Whatever sign the Sun is in, the full moon is in the one facing it, at the same degree.

Gemini wants the facts, the conversation and the next question. Sagittarius wants the point of it all. Under a Gemini full moon the usual pattern is that a message, a conversation or a plan you have been turning over comes to a head, and the way through is the simple one: say what you know, plainly, and let the rest go.

In the astrological tradition the full moon is the peak of the lunar cycle: the Sun and Moon face each other, and whatever began at the new moon about two weeks earlier is now fully visible. In our view that is clarity, not threat. The Moon does not make anything happen. It makes things visible, which is why the tradition saves finishing, celebrating and letting go for the full moon and beginnings for the new moon.

That is the sign level. The personal level is the house. Every degree of the zodiac falls somewhere in your own chart, and 2°20’ Gemini lights up a different area of life for each of us: career for one person, home for another. Our free birth chart calculator gives you your rising sign. With whole sign houses, your rising sign is the first house, the next sign is the second, and so on, so count forward until you reach Gemini. That house is where this full moon is doing its work.

One thing to keep straight: the sign the full moon is in is not your Moon sign. Your Moon sign is where the Moon was at the moment you were born, and it never changes. The full moon’s sign changes from one full moon to the next, as the table shows.

Supermoons, Blue Moons and Eclipses Through 2027

Supermoons. The Moon’s orbit is not a circle. NASA puts perigee, its closest point to Earth, at about 363,300 km and apogee, its farthest, at about 405,500 km. A supermoon is a full moon that happens near perigee. NASA says the term is not official but is usually applied to a full moon within at least 90 percent of perigee. By Fred Espenak’s cutoff (a full moon within 90% of the way to perigee), four of the fifteen full moons in our table qualify: November 24, 2026 at about 360,800 km, December 23, 2026 at about 356,700 km, January 22, 2027 at about 357,600 km, and February 20, 2027 at about 363,300 km. December 23 is the closest full moon of 2026 and January 22 the closest of 2027. The Hunter’s Moon, at about 368,900 km, was an ordinary distance. At its closest a full moon can look up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the faintest full moon of the year, NASA says, though it also admits that is hard to tell by eye.

The smallest one. The opposite case is a full moon near apogee, which NASA describes as the faintest Moon of the year. The Buck Moon of July 18, 2027 is the farthest in our table, at about 406,000 km, within 500 km of NASA’s average apogee, so it is the smallest and faintest full moon of 2027.

The blue moon. You know the monthly kind, the second full moon in one calendar month. The US Naval Observatory says that happens on average every 2.7 years. The older rule, from the Maine Farmers’ Almanac, is seasonal: when a season holds four full moons instead of three, the third one is the blue moon. 2027 has no monthly blue moon at all. Count the Eastern dates in the table and you get twelve full moons in twelve different months. But it does have a seasonal one. Spring 2027 runs from the equinox on March 20 (20:25 UTC) to the solstice on June 21 (14:11 UTC), and four full moons fall inside it: March 22, April 20, May 20 and June 19 (00:44 UTC, about two and a half days before the solstice). The third of four is May 20, 2027. That is the blue moon, and it sits at 29°14’ Scorpio, the last degree of the sign. The next monthly blue moon is further off: December 2028 has a full moon on the 1st and another on the 31st, so December 31, 2028 is the one.

Two Scorpio full moons in a row. That May moon comes a month after a full moon at 0°37’ Scorpio on April 20. Full moons march forward about 29 degrees each cycle, so when one lands at the very start of a sign, the next can land at the very end of the same sign. Scorpio gets both in 2027: the opening question in April and the final answer in May.

Eclipses. A lunar eclipse is a full moon that passes through Earth’s shadow. The three in our window, February 20, July 18 and August 17, 2027, are all penumbral, meaning the Moon only passes through the outer part of Earth’s shadow. The next full moon has no eclipse of any kind.

Which full Moon is the most powerful? In our view, the name of a full moon does not decide anything for you. Astrologically, the strongest full moon is the one that touches your chart: a full moon within a few degrees of your Sun, Moon, rising sign or a planet is the one you feel, whatever its name. Eclipses rank above ordinary full moons in the tradition: astrologers read a full moon in Earth’s shadow as a turning point rather than a single peak. If you want the brightest one to look at rather than the one to feel, December 23, 2026 is the closest and biggest of the lot.

When the Moon Is Full in Your Sign

A full moon in your Sun sign puts you at one end of the axis and the Sun at the other. It comes round about six months from your birthday, when the Sun is in your opposite sign, and it tends to bring something personal to a visible peak: a decision, a relationship, a result. Here is when it happens for each sign between now and the end of 2027. These are tendencies, not rules.

• ♈︎AriesOctober 15, 2027. Your own needs versus the relationship. Say what you want, kindly.
• ♉︎TaurusNovember 13, 2027. Money and security come into focus. Keep what is solid.
• ♊︎GeminiNovember 24, 2026 and December 13, 2027. Conversations peak. The message you have been drafting gets sent.
• ♋︎CancerDecember 23, 2026. Home and family, right before the holidays. Make the space feel like yours.
• ♌︎LeoJanuary 22, 2027. Creative work or romance reaches a visible point. Let yourself be seen.
• ♍︎VirgoFebruary 20, 2027. Routines, health and work habits ask for a reset, and the eclipse adds a nudge.
• ♎︎LibraMarch 22, 2027. A partnership question lands two days after the equinox. Balance is the whole point.
• ♏︎ScorpioApril 20 and May 20, 2027. Two in a row. The first opens a question about trust or shared money; the blue moon closes it.
• ♐︎SagittariusJune 18, 2027. Travel, study or belief comes to a head. Book the thing.
• ♑︎CapricornJuly 18, 2027. Work and reputation peak under a penumbral eclipse and the smallest full moon of the year. Finish, then rest.
• ♒︎AquariusAugust 17, 2027. Friends and groups light up, again with a penumbral eclipse. Someone in your circle has news.
• ♓︎PiscesSeptember 15, 2027. The Harvest Moon in your sign. Rest and release before the season turns.

What to Do, and Not Do, Under a Full Moon

A full moon is a peak, not a start. The useful move is to finish, release and say thank you. In our view three things are enough: go outside at moonrise and watch it come up, write three lines on what has come to light since the new moon, and release one thing by writing it down, reading it once and tearing it up. Our five full moon rituals cover the how in more depth, and most take less than half an hour. You do not need the exact minute; the night before or after works just as well.

What should you not do during a full moon? Nothing dramatic happens if you break these, but here is our advice: Do not launch something brand new, that is new moon territory. Do not make a big decision on the strength of a feeling that only arrived that evening, because the tradition says full moons amplify emotion and the feeling will look different in two days. Do not send the late night message either; write it down and send it in two days if you still mean it. Do not pick the fight you have been saving.

Does the Moon Affect the Tides?

Yes. NOAA says the Moon is the dominant force behind the tides, which it describes as very long period waves that move through the oceans in response to the forces of the Moon and Sun. The Sun is 27 million times more massive than the Moon, but it is also 390 times farther away, and NOAA explains that tide generating force falls with the cube of the distance. The result is that the Sun’s pull on the tides is about half the Moon’s.

The two combine at the full moon and the new moon, when the Sun, Moon and Earth line up. The solar tide adds to the lunar tide and you get spring tides, the highest highs and lowest lows of the month. A week later, at the quarter moons, the Sun and Moon pull at right angles and the tides are gentler: neap tides. So the coast really does feel every full moon, even the ones nobody names.

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