Moon phases in 2026
Every new Moon, first quarter, full Moon and last quarter of 2026, to the minute in UTC, with a calendar for each month.
2026 at a glance
- full Moons
- 13
- new Moons
- 12
- supermoons
- 3
- blue moon
- 1
Supermoons on 3 January, 24 November and 24 December. A blue moon, the second full Moon of the month, on 31 May.
A total lunar eclipse at the full Moon of 3 March.
A partial lunar eclipse at the full Moon of 28 August.
An annular solar eclipse at the new Moon of 17 February.
A total solar eclipse at the new Moon of 12 August.
January
- Full Moon3 Jan, 10:03 UTC
- Last quarter10 Jan, 15:49 UTC
- New Moon18 Jan, 19:52 UTC
- First quarter26 Jan, 04:48 UTC
February
- Full Moon1 Feb, 22:10 UTC
- Last quarter9 Feb, 12:44 UTC
- New Moon17 Feb, 12:02 UTC
- First quarter24 Feb, 12:28 UTC
March
- Full Moon3 Mar, 11:38 UTC
- Last quarter11 Mar, 09:39 UTC
- New Moon19 Mar, 01:24 UTC
- First quarter25 Mar, 19:18 UTC
April
- Full Moon2 Apr, 02:13 UTC
- Last quarter10 Apr, 04:52 UTC
- New Moon17 Apr, 11:53 UTC
- First quarter24 Apr, 02:32 UTC
May
- Full Moon1 May, 17:24 UTC
- Last quarter9 May, 21:11 UTC
- New Moon16 May, 20:02 UTC
- First quarter23 May, 11:12 UTC
- Full Moon31 May, 08:46 UTC
June
- Last quarter8 Jun, 10:01 UTC
- New Moon15 Jun, 02:55 UTC
- First quarter21 Jun, 21:56 UTC
- Full Moon29 Jun, 23:57 UTC
July
- Last quarter7 Jul, 19:29 UTC
- New Moon14 Jul, 09:44 UTC
- First quarter21 Jul, 11:06 UTC
- Full Moon29 Jul, 14:36 UTC
August
- Last quarter6 Aug, 02:21 UTC
- New Moon12 Aug, 17:36 UTC
- First quarter20 Aug, 02:46 UTC
- Full Moon28 Aug, 04:18 UTC
September
- Last quarter4 Sep, 07:51 UTC
- New Moon11 Sep, 03:27 UTC
- First quarter18 Sep, 20:43 UTC
- Full Moon26 Sep, 16:49 UTC
October
- Last quarter3 Oct, 13:25 UTC
- New Moon10 Oct, 15:50 UTC
- First quarter18 Oct, 16:12 UTC
- Full Moon26 Oct, 04:11 UTC
November
- Last quarter1 Nov, 20:28 UTC
- New Moon9 Nov, 07:02 UTC
- First quarter17 Nov, 11:48 UTC
- Full Moon24 Nov, 14:54 UTC
December
- Last quarter1 Dec, 06:09 UTC
- New Moon9 Dec, 00:52 UTC
- First quarter17 Dec, 05:43 UTC
- Full Moon24 Dec, 01:28 UTC
- Last quarter30 Dec, 19:00 UTC
Times in UTC to the nearest minute. Ours agree with the US Naval Observatory's to within a minute and a half from 2026 to 2028. Each month's page gives them in your own time zone as well.
Questions
How many full Moons are there in 2026?
Thirteen: 3 January (the Wolf Moon), 1 February (the Snow Moon), 3 March (the Worm Moon), 2 April (the Pink Moon), 1 May (the Flower Moon), 31 May (the Blue Moon), 29 June (the Strawberry Moon), 29 July (the Buck Moon), 28 August (the Sturgeon Moon), 26 September (the Harvest Moon), 26 October (the Hunter's Moon), 24 November (the Beaver Moon), 24 December (the Cold Moon).
When are the new Moons in 2026?
18 January, 17 February, 19 March, 17 April, 16 May, 15 June, 14 July, 12 August, 11 September, 10 October, 9 November and 9 December, all in UTC.
Are there supermoons in 2026?
Yes, three: 3 January, 24 November and 24 December, by Fred Espenak's test, at 90% or more of the way from apogee to perigee.
Is there a blue moon in 2026?
31 May 2026, the second full Moon of May.
Sources
- US Naval Observatory: Phases of the Moon. Our times are checked against USNO's for every phase from 2026 to 2028 and agree to within a minute and a half
- US Naval Observatory: Phases of the Moon and percent of the Moon illuminated (how the phases, the percent lit and the Moon's age are defined)
- Fred Espenak, AstroPixels: Full Moon at Perigee (full supermoons), 2001 to 2100, and the test for one
- NASA Watch the Skies: the monthly and seasonal blue moon
- NASA Eclipse Web Site (Espenak): eclipse dates
- Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms (2nd edition, 1998): chapter 47, the lunar theory behind the Moon's place, phase and distance; chapter 48, the lit fraction and the bright limb; chapter 25, the Sun's aberration
- IAU Office of Astronomy for Education: the lunar phases seen from the Southern Hemisphere
- NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, CGI Moon Kit (Ernie Wright, Noah Petro, 2019): the Moon's colour from the LROC Wide Angle Camera's Hapke-normalised mosaic, the face every Moon on these pages is drawn from
- LRO Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, LDEM_64 heights (NASA PDS Geosciences Node): the slopes that shade the ground near the terminator
- Archinal et al. (2011), Report of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2009, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 109, 101: the Moon's pole and turning, so the drawn face shows the libration of the moment
- NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, Moon Phase and Libration, 2026: what libration and the position angle of the axis are, and the frames we compared our drawing with
- NASA JPL Horizons: the Moon's sub-Earth point and pole angle, which our drawing matches to within 0.01 degrees on the dates we test
- Krisciunas and Schaefer (1991), A model of the brightness of moonlight, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 103, 1033: the Moon's brightness through its phases, which sets the earthshine against the sunlit side
- NASA Earth fact sheet: the Earth's radius and geometric albedo, for the earthshine
- The phases, distances and dates on this page are worked out by our own code from the sources above, the same lunar theory that places the Moon in the 3D viewer. The Moons are drawn by our own renderer from NASA's maps.