Full moon calendar 2026.
The Moon reaches full thirteen times in 2026, one more than a calendar year of twelve months would suggest. The extra one falls on May 31, right after a full moon on May 1, which makes that second one a Blue Moon. Here are all of them, with the exact moment each reaches full in UTC, so you can plan a night out or a photo around the real number instead of a rough guess.
Every full moon in 2026.
| Date (UTC) | Time (UTC) | Name |
|---|---|---|
| Sat, Jan 3 | 07:13 | Wolf Moon |
| Sun, Feb 1 | 17:31 | Snow Moon |
| Tue, Mar 3 | 07:46 | Worm Moon |
| Thu, Apr 2 | 00:26 | Pink Moon |
| Fri, May 1 | 17:26 | Flower Moon |
| Sun, May 31 | 08:54 | Blue Moon |
| Mon, Jun 29 | 23:36 | Strawberry Moon |
| Wed, Jul 29 | 15:01 | Buck Moon |
| Fri, Aug 28 | 07:00 | Sturgeon Moon |
| Sat, Sep 26 | 21:32 | Harvest Moon |
| Mon, Oct 26 | 08:58 | Hunter's Moon |
| Tue, Nov 24 | 17:34 | Beaver Moon |
| Thu, Dec 24 | 01:15 | Cold Moon |
Three of these land within an hour or two of midnight UTC (April 2, June 29, and December 24). If you live west of Greenwich, your local calendar date for those can read a day earlier. Lumara pins the moment to your own city so you never have to do that math in your head.
The May 31 Blue Moon.
A Blue Moon is not blue and not rare in the way the phrase suggests. The common meaning is simply the second full moon inside one calendar month. May 2026 gets two, the Flower Moon on May 1 and a second full moon on May 31, so that second one wears the name. It happens roughly every two to three years, whenever a full moon lands early enough in a long month to fit another one before the month ends.
Where the names come from.
The month names (Wolf, Snow, Worm, and the rest) come from a mix of Native American, Colonial, and European folk traditions that tied each full moon to what was happening outside: wolves howling in January, the ground thawing for worms in March, strawberries ripening in June. They carry no astronomical meaning, but they are a tidy way to remember which moon is which. The Harvest Moon is the one exception with a rule behind it: it is always the full moon nearest the September equinox, which in 2026 is the September 26 moon.
New moons in 2026.
If you care about dark skies for stargazing or meteor showers, the new moon matters more than the full one. These are the nights with no moonlight at all.
| Date (UTC) | Time (UTC) |
|---|---|
| Sun, Jan 18 | 20:16 |
| Tue, Feb 17 | 13:18 |
| Thu, Mar 19 | 04:08 |
| Fri, Apr 17 | 14:58 |
| Sat, May 16 | 21:49 |
| Mon, Jun 15 | 02:26 |
| Tue, Jul 14 | 07:17 |
| Wed, Aug 12 | 14:34 |
| Fri, Sep 11 | 01:27 |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 15:26 |
| Mon, Nov 9 | 07:06 |
| Tue, Dec 8 | 23:57 |
How these dates are worked out.
Every time on this page comes from the Jean Meeus algorithms, the standard reference astronomers use, running the same way they run inside the Lumara app. No almanac lookup, no API, just the math. That is also why Lumara keeps working on a plane or deep in a canyon with no signal: the Moon's position is pure calculation once you have the date. Open the dashboard to see the current phase, illumination percentage, and the next full and new moon counted down for your location.