Moon phases in 2027
Every new Moon, first quarter, full Moon and last quarter of 2027, to the minute in UTC, with a calendar for each month.
2027 at a glance
- full Moons
- 12
- new Moons
- 13
- supermoons
- 2
- blue moon
- 1
Supermoons on 22 January and 20 February. A seasonal blue moon on 20 May.
An annular solar eclipse at the new Moon of 6 February.
A total solar eclipse at the new Moon of 2 August.
January
- New Moon7 Jan, 20:24 UTC
- First quarter15 Jan, 20:35 UTC
- Full Moon22 Jan, 12:17 UTC
- Last quarter29 Jan, 10:55 UTC
February
- New Moon6 Feb, 15:56 UTC
- First quarter14 Feb, 07:58 UTC
- Full Moon20 Feb, 23:24 UTC
- Last quarter28 Feb, 05:16 UTC
March
- New Moon8 Mar, 09:29 UTC
- First quarter15 Mar, 16:25 UTC
- Full Moon22 Mar, 10:44 UTC
- Last quarter30 Mar, 00:54 UTC
April
- New Moon6 Apr, 23:51 UTC
- First quarter13 Apr, 22:56 UTC
- Full Moon20 Apr, 22:27 UTC
- Last quarter28 Apr, 20:18 UTC
May
- New Moon6 May, 10:59 UTC
- First quarter13 May, 04:44 UTC
- Full Moon20 May, 10:59 UTC
- Last quarter28 May, 13:58 UTC
June
- New Moon4 Jun, 19:40 UTC
- First quarter11 Jun, 10:56 UTC
- Full Moon19 Jun, 00:44 UTC
- Last quarter27 Jun, 04:54 UTC
July
- New Moon4 Jul, 03:02 UTC
- First quarter10 Jul, 18:39 UTC
- Full Moon18 Jul, 15:45 UTC
- Last quarter26 Jul, 16:55 UTC
August
- New Moon2 Aug, 10:05 UTC
- First quarter9 Aug, 04:54 UTC
- Full Moon17 Aug, 07:29 UTC
- Last quarter25 Aug, 02:27 UTC
- New Moon31 Aug, 17:41 UTC
September
- First quarter7 Sep, 18:31 UTC
- Full Moon15 Sep, 23:04 UTC
- Last quarter23 Sep, 10:20 UTC
- New Moon30 Sep, 02:36 UTC
October
- First quarter7 Oct, 11:47 UTC
- Full Moon15 Oct, 13:47 UTC
- Last quarter22 Oct, 17:29 UTC
- New Moon29 Oct, 13:37 UTC
November
- First quarter6 Nov, 08:00 UTC
- Full Moon14 Nov, 03:26 UTC
- Last quarter21 Nov, 00:48 UTC
- New Moon28 Nov, 03:25 UTC
December
- First quarter6 Dec, 05:22 UTC
- Full Moon13 Dec, 16:09 UTC
- Last quarter20 Dec, 09:11 UTC
- New Moon27 Dec, 20:12 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 2027?
Twelve: 22 January (the Wolf Moon), 20 February (the Snow Moon), 22 March (the Worm Moon), 20 April (the Pink Moon), 20 May (the Flower Moon), 19 June (the Strawberry Moon), 18 July (the Buck Moon), 17 August (the Sturgeon Moon), 15 September (the Harvest Moon), 15 October (the Hunter's Moon), 14 November (the Beaver Moon), 13 December (the Cold Moon).
When are the new Moons in 2027?
7 January, 6 February, 8 March, 6 April, 6 May, 4 June, 4 July, 2 August, 31 August, 30 September, 29 October, 28 November and 27 December, all in UTC.
Are there supermoons in 2027?
Yes, two: 22 January and 20 February, by Fred Espenak's test, at 90% or more of the way from apogee to perigee.
Is there a blue moon in 2027?
20 May 2027, the third of four full Moons in its season.
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.