Moon calendar 2026
2026 has thirteen full moons and twelve new moons. It opens with the Wolf Moon on Saturday, January 3, 2026 and closes with the Cold Moon on Wednesday, December 23. May holds two full moons, and the second is a Blue Moon. The Harvest Moon rises in September.
Dates and times are in Eastern Time, with UTC alongside. Months are grouped by the Eastern date, the way American almanacs list them; west of Eastern a late-night phase can fall on the evening before.
Full moons in 2026
New moons in 2026
Month by month
All four main phases of every month. The quarters are the moments the Moon is exactly half lit; the sign is where the Moon stands at that minute. Each month links to a page with the disc for every day.
January
- FullCanWolf Moon
- Last QLib
- NewCap
- 1st QTau
February
- FullLeoSnow Moon
- Last QSco
- NewAqu
- 1st QGem
March
- FullVirWorm Moon
- Last QSag
- NewPis
- 1st QCan
April
- FullLibPink Moon
- Last QCap
- NewAri
- 1st QLeo
May
- FullScoFlower Moon
- Last QAqu
- NewTau
- 1st QVir
- FullSagBlue Moon
June
- Last QPis
- NewGem
- 1st QLib
- FullCapStrawberry Moon
July
- Last QAri
- NewCan
- 1st QLib
- FullAquBuck Moon
August
- Last QTau
- NewLeo
- 1st QSco
- FullPisSturgeon Moon
September
- Last QGem
- NewVir
- 1st QSag
- FullAriHarvest Moon
October
- Last QCan
- NewLib
- 1st QCap
- FullTauHunter's Moon
November
- Last QLeo
- NewSco
- 1st QAqu
- FullGemBeaver Moon
December
- Last QVir
- NewSag
- 1st QPis
- FullCanCold Moon
- Last QLib
2026 at a glance
The whole year on one page
A printable sheet in the same botanical frame: the Moon for every day of 2026 in twelve rows, and the new, first quarter, full and last quarter times for each month, in the US time zone you pick. A4 or US Letter, with an ink-saving plain version.
How the times are worked out
Every moment on this page is calculated, not copied: the phase times come from the lunar theory in Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms, corrected for the difference between atomic time and Earth's rotation. Checked against the US Naval Observatory's published phases for 2025 to 2030, all 297 times match to the minute or differ by one.
The sign is worked out through the Sun: a new moon happens when the Moon and Sun share a longitude, a full moon when they stand 180° apart, so the Moon's position at that minute is the Sun's plus 0°, 90°, 180° or 270°. Signs are tropical, as in Western astrology. Eastern Time follows daylight saving, which is why spring and summer times read EDT and the rest EST.
A calendar gives the same sky to everyone. Where these new and full moons land in your own birth chart is the personal part, and that is what a reading built from your birth date looks at. See a reading built from your birth moon →
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When is the first full moon of 2026?
The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon on Saturday, January 3, 2026, at 5:03 AM EST (10:03 UTC), with the Moon in Cancer.
How many full moons are there in 2026?
Thirteen, from January 3 to December 23. A lunar cycle lasts about 29.5 days, so a calendar year fits twelve full moons with roughly eleven days to spare; this year those days add up to a thirteenth.
Is there a blue moon in 2026?
Yes. May 2026 has two full moons, and the second, on Sunday, May 31, is a Blue Moon in the calendar-month sense. No season of the year holds four full moons, so there is no seasonal Blue Moon by the older rule either.
When is the Harvest Moon in 2026?
On Saturday, September 26, 2026, at 12:48 PM EDT. It is the full moon nearest the September equinox (September 22 this year, Eastern Time).
Which months of 2026 have two new moons?
None: every month of 2026 has exactly one new moon in Eastern Time, so there is no Black Moon this year.