Full moon calendar 2028.

The Moon reaches full thirteen times in 2028. December holds two of them, on December 2 and December 31, which makes the New Year's Eve moon a Blue Moon. That same moon passes straight through Earth's shadow as a total lunar eclipse, so 2028 closes with a Blue Moon that turns red. The year also opens with four supermoons in a row, January through April. Here is every full moon with the exact instant it peaks in UTC, followed by all 12 new moons. For the years before it, see the 2027 full moon calendar and the 2026 full moon calendar.

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When is every full moon in 2028?

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Two of these sit right at the midnight boundary in UTC. The Corn Moon peaks September 3 at 23:48 and the Cold Moon December 2 at 01:40, so anyone west of Greenwich sees a local date one day off from the table for the first, and anyone well east of it for the second. Lumara pins the moment to your own city, which settles the question of which night is actually full.

Which full moons in 2028 are supermoons?

Four, and they run back to back at the start of the year: January 12, February 10, March 11, and April 9. The Snow Moon on February 10 is the closest full moon of 2028, with perigee at 356,720 km just five hours after the moon turns full. Under Fred Espenak's perigee-based definition, which counts a full moon as super when it falls within 90 percent of that orbit's closest approach, nothing after April qualifies. Looser distance cutoffs used elsewhere would add more names to the list, so if two sites disagree on the count, the definition is the reason. The January 12 supermoon also clips the edge of Earth's umbra for a shallow partial eclipse, with only about 7 percent of the disc shaded at 04:13 UTC.

Is the December 31, 2028 Blue Moon really a total lunar eclipse?

Yes. The second December full moon is the New Year's Eve moon, which earns the Blue Moon name, and it passes fully into Earth's umbra. Greatest eclipse comes at about 16:52 UTC with an umbral magnitude of 1.246, and totality lasts 1 hour 11 minutes inside a partial phase that runs about 3 hours 29 minutes end to end. It is visible from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific, with the Moon already high over Asia and rising in eclipse over Europe. The Americas miss it; the Moon is below the horizon there. A total lunar eclipse is the event people call a blood moon, since the disc goes a deep copper color from sunlight bent through Earth's atmosphere.

Where do the full moon 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 the season outside. They carry no astronomical weight. The Harvest Moon is the one name with a rule behind it: it is the full moon nearest the September equinox. In 2028 the equinox falls on September 22 at 11:45 UTC, and the October 3 moon is about 11 days after it while the September 3 moon is 18 days before, so October 3 takes the Harvest name. That pushes the September moon to its alternate name, the Corn Moon, and the November moon becomes the Hunter's Moon.

When are the new moons in 2028?

For stargazing and meteor showers the new moon matters more than the full one, because these are the nights with no moonlight. 2028 has 12 new moons, and two of them carry solar eclipses. The January 26 new moon produces an annular eclipse, a ring of Sun around the Moon, along a path from Ecuador and Peru across Brazil to Spain and Portugal, with greatest eclipse near 15:08 UTC and up to 10 minutes 27 seconds of annularity. The July 22 new moon produces a total solar eclipse across Australia and New Zealand, greatest at about 02:55 UTC with up to 5 minutes 10 seconds of totality.

How are these dates worked out?

The instants above come from standard ephemeris calculations and were checked one by one against Fred Espenak's phase catalog at astropixels.com and the US Naval Observatory's phase data. Every entry agrees with both sources to the minute. Eclipse figures follow the NASA Goddard eclipse catalog, converted from Terrestrial Time to UTC. The Lumara dashboard derives the same new and full moon instants from Meeus's phase series and agrees with this table to under a minute. Open it to see the current phase, illumination percentage, and the next full and new moon counted down for your city.

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Common questions.

How many full moons are there in 2028?

Thirteen. December has two, on December 2 and December 31, so the December 31 moon is a Blue Moon. There are 12 new moons.

When is the first full moon of 2028?

January 12 at 04:03 UTC, the Wolf Moon. It is a supermoon and it brushes Earth's shadow for a shallow partial lunar eclipse at 04:13 UTC.

Are there supermoons in 2028?

Four, under Fred Espenak's perigee-based definition: January 12, February 10, March 11, and April 9. February 10 is the closest at 356,720 km. The rest of the year has none.

Are there lunar eclipses in 2028?

Three. A shallow partial on January 12 (about 7 percent of the disc), a deeper partial on July 6 (about 39 percent), and a total lunar eclipse on December 31 with 1 hour 11 minutes of totality, visible from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Are there solar eclipses in 2028?

Two. An annular eclipse on January 26 from South America to Spain and Portugal, and a total eclipse on July 22 across Australia and New Zealand with up to 5 minutes 10 seconds of totality.

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