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Full moon calendar 2028: every date, with its name
The thirteen full moons of 2028, to the minute, each one with its name. The year ends on 31 December with a blue moon that is also a total lunar eclipse.
Facts checked September 2026
Every full moon of 2028 below comes from Plenilune, my lunar almanac app for iOS: computed with Jean Meeus's algorithms, first in Universal Time, then in your own time zone once the page has loaded.
Date | Time | Traditional name |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, January 12, 2028 | 4:02 AM | Wolf MoonPartial lunar eclipse |
| Thursday, February 10, 2028 | 3:03 PM | Snow Moon |
| Saturday, March 11, 2028 | 1:05 AM | Worm Moon |
| Sunday, April 9, 2028 | 10:26 AM | Pink Moon |
| Monday, May 8, 2028 | 7:48 PM | Flower Moon |
| Wednesday, June 7, 2028 | 6:08 AM | Strawberry Moon |
| Thursday, July 6, 2028 | 6:10 PM | Buck MoonPartial lunar eclipse |
| Saturday, August 5, 2028 | 8:09 AM | Sturgeon Moon |
| Sunday, September 3, 2028 | 11:47 PM | Harvest Moon |
| Tuesday, October 3, 2028 | 4:24 PM | Hunter’s Moon |
| Thursday, November 2, 2028 | 9:17 AM | Beaver Moon |
| Saturday, December 2, 2028 | 1:40 AM | Cold Moon |
| Sunday, December 31, 2028 | 4:48 PM | Blue moon, the second full moon of the monthTotal lunar eclipse |
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.
Each disc shows the phase at noon, local time. A dot marks the day of the full moon. A bitten disc marks an eclipse: lunar at full moon, solar, with its rays, at new moon.
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. The table above switches to your time zone automatically. In 2028, the full moon of 3 September falls at 23:47 UTC, which is already 4 September in Europe. The one of 11 March, at 01:05 UTC, still falls on the evening of 10 March across the Americas.
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 2028 holds
- Thirteen full moons, two of them in December: the one of 31 December is a calendar blue moon, the second full moon in a single month.
- That blue moon is also a total lunar eclipse, the first since March 2026. It can be seen from Asia and Australia, and from Europe as the Moon rises.
- No seasonal blue moon: no season of 2028 holds four full moons.
- The year's closest full moon, on 10 February, at about 356,700 km: a supermoon by any definition. The one of 11 March also dips under the 360,000 km line, at about 358,100 km.
- The farthest, on 3 September, at about 406,200 km. February's supermoon looks about 14% larger than it.
- Two partial lunar eclipses, at the full moons of 12 January and 6 July.
- Two solar eclipses at the new moons: annular on 26 January, then total on 22 July. The path of totality crosses Australia as far as Sydney, then New Zealand.
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. 2028 is one of them, and its thirteenth full moon falls on the last day of the year. 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 2028?
- Yes. December 2028 has two full moons, on the 2nd and the 31st: the one of 31 December is a blue moon by the popular rule. By the older almanac rule, the third full moon of a season that has four, there is none in 2028.
- When is the supermoon of 2028?
- The full moon of 10 February 2028 is the closest of the year, at about 356,700 km. The one of 11 March also dips under the strict 360,000 km line, at about 358,100 km, and some lists add the one of 12 January, just above it.
- Is there a lunar eclipse in 2028?
- Three. Two partial ones, at the full moons of 12 January and 6 July, then a total one on 31 December: the Moon passes entirely through the Earth's shadow and turns a coppery red. It is the first red moon since March 2026.
- 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.