Moon phases in 2028
Every new Moon, first quarter, full Moon and last quarter of 2028, to the minute in UTC, with a calendar for each month.
2028 at a glance
- full Moons
- 13
- new Moons
- 12
- supermoons
- 4
- blue moon
- 1
Supermoons on 12 January, 10 February, 11 March and 9 April. A blue moon, the second full Moon of the month, on 31 December.
A partial lunar eclipse at the full Moon of 12 January.
A partial lunar eclipse at the full Moon of 6 July.
A total lunar eclipse at the full Moon of 31 December.
An annular solar eclipse at the new Moon of 26 January.
A total solar eclipse at the new Moon of 22 July.
January
- First quarter5 Jan, 01:41 UTC
- Full Moon12 Jan, 04:03 UTC
- Last quarter18 Jan, 19:26 UTC
- New Moon26 Jan, 15:13 UTC
February
- First quarter3 Feb, 19:11 UTC
- Full Moon10 Feb, 15:04 UTC
- Last quarter17 Feb, 08:08 UTC
- New Moon25 Feb, 10:38 UTC
March
- First quarter4 Mar, 09:02 UTC
- Full Moon11 Mar, 01:06 UTC
- Last quarter17 Mar, 23:23 UTC
- New Moon26 Mar, 04:31 UTC
April
- First quarter2 Apr, 19:15 UTC
- Full Moon9 Apr, 10:27 UTC
- Last quarter16 Apr, 16:37 UTC
- New Moon24 Apr, 19:47 UTC
May
- First quarter2 May, 02:26 UTC
- Full Moon8 May, 19:49 UTC
- Last quarter16 May, 10:43 UTC
- New Moon24 May, 08:17 UTC
- First quarter31 May, 07:37 UTC
June
- Full Moon7 Jun, 06:09 UTC
- Last quarter15 Jun, 04:28 UTC
- New Moon22 Jun, 18:28 UTC
- First quarter29 Jun, 12:11 UTC
July
- Full Moon6 Jul, 18:11 UTC
- Last quarter14 Jul, 20:57 UTC
- New Moon22 Jul, 03:02 UTC
- First quarter28 Jul, 17:41 UTC
August
- Full Moon5 Aug, 08:10 UTC
- Last quarter13 Aug, 11:46 UTC
- New Moon20 Aug, 10:44 UTC
- First quarter27 Aug, 01:36 UTC
September
- Full Moon3 Sep, 23:48 UTC
- Last quarter12 Sep, 00:46 UTC
- New Moon18 Sep, 18:24 UTC
- First quarter25 Sep, 13:10 UTC
October
- Full Moon3 Oct, 16:25 UTC
- Last quarter11 Oct, 11:57 UTC
- New Moon18 Oct, 02:57 UTC
- First quarter25 Oct, 04:53 UTC
November
- Full Moon2 Nov, 09:17 UTC
- Last quarter9 Nov, 21:25 UTC
- New Moon16 Nov, 13:18 UTC
- First quarter24 Nov, 00:14 UTC
December
- Full Moon2 Dec, 01:40 UTC
- Last quarter9 Dec, 05:38 UTC
- New Moon16 Dec, 02:06 UTC
- First quarter23 Dec, 21:44 UTC
- Full Moon31 Dec, 16:48 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 2028?
Thirteen: 12 January (the Wolf Moon), 10 February (the Snow Moon), 11 March (the Worm Moon), 9 April (the Pink Moon), 8 May (the Flower Moon), 7 June (the Strawberry Moon), 6 July (the Buck Moon), 5 August (the Sturgeon Moon), 3 September (the Corn Moon), 3 October (the Harvest Moon), 2 November (the Hunter's Moon), 2 December (the Cold Moon), 31 December (the Blue Moon).
When are the new Moons in 2028?
26 January, 25 February, 26 March, 24 April, 24 May, 22 June, 22 July, 20 August, 18 September, 18 October, 16 November and 16 December, all in UTC.
Are there supermoons in 2028?
Yes, four: 12 January, 10 February, 11 March and 9 April, by Fred Espenak's test, at 90% or more of the way from apogee to perigee.
Is there a blue moon in 2028?
31 December 2028, the second full Moon of December.
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.