Full Moon Calendar 2026–2027

Full Moon November 2026: the Beaver Supermoon in Gemini

The November 2026 full moon peaks on Tuesday, November 24, at 9:54 a.m. EST, which is 6:54 a.m. PST. That is mid-morning on the East Coast, so the Moon is already below the horizon at the exact moment. The Moon looks round to the eye for a night on either side of its peak, so look on the evenings of November 23 and 24.

It is a supermoon. The center of the Moon is about 360,750 km (224,160 miles) from the center of Earth, inside the limit astronomer Fred Espenak uses for the term. The Old Farmer's Almanac figures a supermoon at about 7% larger than average, a difference few people can spot without a photo to compare.

The Almanac calls it the Beaver Moon: in the 1760s Captain Jonathan Carver recorded the name for the month when beavers finish preparing for winter and retreat into their lodges. Cree and Assiniboine names for the same moon are Frost Moon. In astrology the Moon sits at 2° Gemini, opposite the Sun in early Sagittarius. Astrologers read a Gemini full moon as the point when news, a conversation or a piece of paperwork that has been building for two weeks comes out in the open.

Full Moon December 2026: the Cold Supermoon in Cancer

The December 2026 full moon is on Wednesday, December 23, at 8:28 p.m. EST (5:28 p.m. PST), two days after the winter solstice. It is the year's closest, about 356,700 km (221,700 miles) away, and the Almanac lists it as the closest of its three 2026 supermoons. Because the peak falls in the evening across the US, the Moon rises already full, low in the east around sunset.

The name Cold Moon comes from the Mohawk people, according to the Almanac. Other names for it are Long Night Moon (Mohican) and Moon of the Popping Trees (Oglala). The long night fits: this is the first full moon after the longest night of the year.

This one is in Cancer at 2°14′, opposite the Sun in Capricorn. Cancer is the sign the Moon rules in traditional astrology, so this is the Moon in its own sign. Astrologers connect it with home and family, and with the question of who takes care of whom, which suits a night two days before Christmas.

Full moons in 2027: supermoons, eclipses and the Blue Moon

There are 12 full moons in 2027, one in each calendar month, so 2027 has no monthly Blue Moon. It does have a seasonal Blue Moon: spring 2027 has four, and the third of them, on May 20, gets the name under the older Maine Farmer's Almanac rule that timeanddate.com describes.

Two 2027 full moons are supermoons, January 22 and February 20, the same pair the Old Farmer's Almanac lists. Two others are micromoons, July 18 and August 17, when the Moon is more than 405,000 km away.

All three lunar eclipses of 2027 are penumbral: February 20, July 18 and August 17. In a penumbral eclipse the Moon passes only through the outer part of Earth's shadow, so it dims slightly and does not turn red, and 2027 has no total lunar eclipse, or blood moon. NASA's eclipse tables give the February one as visible from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, and the August one from the Pacific and the Americas.

The bigger event of the year falls on a new moon: the total solar eclipse of August 2, 2027, with up to 6 minutes 23 seconds of totality along a path across Spain, North Africa, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. It is not visible from the US. Four weeks later, on August 31, comes the second new moon of August, which the Almanac calls a Black Moon.

The Harvest Moon, the full moon closest to the fall equinox, is September 15, 2027. Spring's first falls on March 22, and Easter is the Sunday after it, March 28, 2027.

Full moon names and where they come from

The names below are the ones The Old Farmer's Almanac uses. It takes them from Native American, Colonial American and other North American sources, and each name originally covered a whole lunar month rather than a single night. Different peoples used different names for the same month.

Two names depend on the equinox, not the month. The Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the September equinox, so in some years it falls in October; in 2027 it is September 15. The Hunter's Moon is the one after it. A Blue Moon is either the second in a calendar month or the third of four in one season.

What a full moon means in each sign

Every full moon is in the sign opposite the Sun, so the sign changes each month and runs through all twelve in about a year. Between November 2026 and December 2027 there are 14. Gemini and Scorpio each get two, and every other sign gets one. Each sign below takes its date from the calendar table, and the link goes to our page on the Moon in that sign as a birth placement.

In our count for 1930 to 2025, a sign gets exactly one full moon in a calendar year 90.7% of the time, two in 6.2% and none in 3.1%.

New moons 2026–2027

New moons are the opposite point of the cycle: the Moon sits between Earth and the Sun, in the same sign as the Sun, and cannot be seen. Astrologers treat the new moon as a start and the full phase about two weeks later as the result, which is why the table puts each month's new moon next to the full one. Two new moons in this calendar are solar eclipses: February 6, 2027, annular along a path through Chile and Argentina, and August 2, 2027, total. Every new moon in the window is in the last column of the calendar table, with its time in Eastern time.

What to do and what not to do on a full moon

The tradition treats a full moon as a time to finish and review. Cosmopolitan's 2026 calendar puts it plainly: do not start anything new or make drastic decisions, and use the night to look at what has come to light. Common rituals are writing down what you want to let go of, cleaning the house and charging crystals in the moonlight. None of them needs more than an evening.

Astrologers' list of what not to do is short. Do not sign up for something big on impulse, because these are read as nights when feelings run high. Do not pick the fight you have been saving. If a decision cannot wait, sleep on it and make it the next morning.

Nothing here says something bad will happen. Many people get married, move house or start jobs on one. If you want to plan by the Moon, use the house finder above: one in your 10th house is the one to watch for career, one in your 7th for partners.

How often full moons happen

The Moon comes back to full every 29.53 days on average, so a calendar year has 12 or 13 of them. In our count from 1930 to 2025, 35 of 96 years had 13, a calendar month had two 40 times, and February went without one in 5 years. Over the same years there were 219 lunar eclipses: 82 total, 59 partial and 78 penumbral.

The same count answers a question the house finder raises. For a given birthday, one lands within 3° of the Sun's degree in about 20.6% of years. The same share of years has one exactly opposite that degree, which puts it within a few days of the birthday.

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