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Full moon calendar 2027: every date, with its name
Every full moon of 2027, computed with the reference astronomical algorithms: first shown in Universal Time, then in your own time zone once the page has loaded.
| Date | Time | Traditional name |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, January 22, 2027 | 12:16 PM | Wolf Moon |
| Saturday, February 20, 2027 | 11:21 PM | Snow Moon |
| Monday, March 22, 2027 | 10:41 AM | Worm Moon |
| Tuesday, April 20, 2027 | 10:24 PM | Pink Moon |
| Thursday, May 20, 2027 | 10:57 AM | Flower Moon |
| Saturday, June 19, 2027 | 12:43 AM | Strawberry Moon |
| Sunday, July 18, 2027 | 3:44 PM | Buck Moon |
| Tuesday, August 17, 2027 | 7:29 AM | Sturgeon Moon |
| Wednesday, September 15, 2027 | 11:05 PM | Harvest Moon |
| Friday, October 15, 2027 | 1:49 PM | Hunter’s Moon |
| Sunday, November 14, 2027 | 3:27 AM | Beaver Moon |
| Monday, December 13, 2027 | 4:10 PM | Cold Moon |
Times are in Universal Time (UTC) until your time zone is detected. Computed in your browser with the same astronomical algorithms as the Plenilune app (Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms). Nothing is fetched from a server.
How to read this calendar
The full moon is a single worldwide instant; only its clock time changes with your time zone. When that instant falls near midnight, the calendar date itself can shift by one day depending on where you live, which is why serious calendars always state their time zone. The table above switches to yours automatically. Several 2027 full moons fall close to midnight UTC, so a printed calendar from another country may disagree with this one by a day, with neither of them wrong.
Each date links to the story of that month's named moon: where the name comes from, what the almanacs made of it, and the engraving Plenilune drew for it.
What 2027 holds
- Twelve full moons, one in each month: no calendar blue moon this year. The next blue moon of that kind is the one of 31 December 2028, which is also a total lunar eclipse.
- A seasonal blue moon all the same: spring 2027 holds four full moons instead of three, and by the older almanac rule the third of them, on 20 May, is the blue one.
- The year's closest full moon, on 22 January, at about 357,600 km: a supermoon by any definition. The farthest, on 18 July, at about 406,000 km, looks some 14% smaller.
- No red moon in 2027: its three lunar eclipses, on 20 February, 18 July and 17 August, are all penumbral, a faint shading rather than a bite. The next total lunar eclipse is on 31 December 2028.
- A total solar eclipse at the new moon of 2 August, one of the longest of the century, up to 6 minutes 23 seconds of totality over Luxor in Egypt.
A year in the almanac
Twelve lunar months do not quite fill a year (each lasts 29.53 days), so the full moon falls a day or two earlier each month, and some years hold thirteen full moons. 2026 is one; 2027 is not. The names in the table are the traditional ones of the North American almanacs, given by the month the full moon falls in.
Questions
- Is there a blue moon in 2027?
- Not by the popular rule, since every month of 2027 has exactly one full moon. By the older almanac rule, the third full moon of a season that has four, the full moon of 20 May 2027 is a seasonal blue moon.
- When is the supermoon of 2027?
- The full moon of 22 January 2027 is the closest of the year, at about 357,600 km, and the only one under the strict 360,000 km line. No other 2027 full moon comes close.
- Is there a lunar eclipse in 2027?
- Three, all penumbral: 20 February, 18 July and 17 August. The Moon only crosses the Earth's faint outer shadow and dims slightly; there is no red moon in 2027.
- Why does my paper calendar show a different date?
- Printed calendars are set for one reference time zone, often UTC or the publisher's country. If the instant of the full moon falls near midnight, your local date can differ by one day, with neither calendar wrong.