Full Moon & New Moon Calendar 2026–2027: Dates, Times, and Signs

A lunation calendar is the oldest piece of practical astrology there is: for most of human history, “what does the sky say” meant “where is the Moon in her cycle.” The table below lists every new moon and full moon from July 2026 through the end of 2027 — the exact instant, the zodiac sign the Moon occupies, and the eclipses hiding among the ordinary lunations.

One thing to know about these numbers: we didn’t copy them from an almanac. Every timestamp on this page was computed with the same VSOP87 ephemeris engine that draws the birth charts on this site, then cross-checked against published eclipse data. Times are in UT (Universal Time) — a lunation is a single instant shared by the whole planet, so add or subtract your own offset (New York is UT−4 in summer, Delhi UT+5:30, Sydney UT+10). Near midnight, that can move the calendar date by a day.

What a new moon and a full moon actually mark

The Moon takes about 29.5 days to lap the Sun — the synodic month, the cycle behind the word “month” itself. A new moon is the conjunction: Moon and Sun at the same ecliptic longitude, the lunar disc invisible against the glare. Astrologers read it as the start line of the cycle — low visibility, low energy, the natural moment to decide what the next month is for. A full moon is the opposition, 180° later and about 14¾ days on: maximum light, maximum visibility. Whatever was seeded at the new moon is now out in the open — which is why full moons have a reputation for culminations, revelations and the occasional dramatic exit.

None of this is a switch that flips at the printed minute. It is a rhythm — closer to a fortnightly review meeting than a spell. (And to the naked eye the Moon looks convincingly full the night before and after the instant; the timestamp matters for astrology, not for moongazing.)

What gives each lunation its particular flavour is the sign it happens in. A full moon in Pisces and a full moon in Aries culminate in completely different registers — one dissolves, the other detonates. Each sign in the tables links to our full profile of the Moon in that sign.

The calendar: July–December 2026

Date	Time (UT)	Phase	Moon’s sign	Notes
Jul 14, 2026	09:43	New Moon	Cancer 22°	—
Jul 29, 2026	14:36	Full Moon	Aquarius 7°	Buck Moon
Aug 12, 2026	17:36	New Moon	Leo 20°	Total solar eclipse
Aug 28, 2026	04:19	Full Moon	Pisces 5°	Sturgeon Moon · partial lunar eclipse
Sep 11, 2026	03:27	New Moon	Virgo 18°	—
Sep 26, 2026	16:49	Full Moon	Aries 4°	Harvest Moon
Oct 10, 2026	15:50	New Moon	Libra 17°	—
Oct 26, 2026	04:11	Full Moon	Taurus 3°	Hunter’s Moon
Nov 9, 2026	07:02	New Moon	Scorpio 17°	—
Nov 24, 2026	14:53	Full Moon	Gemini 2°	Beaver Moon
Dec 9, 2026	00:52	New Moon	Sagittarius 17°	—
Dec 24, 2026	01:28	Full Moon	Cancer 2°	Cold Moon — Christmas Eve

The calendar: 2027

Date	Time (UT)	Phase	Moon’s sign	Notes
Jan 7, 2027	20:24	New Moon	Capricorn 17°	—
Jan 22, 2027	12:17	Full Moon	Leo 2°	Wolf Moon
Feb 6, 2027	15:56	New Moon	Aquarius 18°	Annular solar eclipse
Feb 20, 2027	23:23	Full Moon	Virgo 2°	Snow Moon · penumbral lunar eclipse
Mar 8, 2027	09:29	New Moon	Pisces 18°	—
Mar 22, 2027	10:44	Full Moon	Libra 2°	Worm Moon
Apr 6, 2027	23:51	New Moon	Aries 17°	—
Apr 20, 2027	22:27	Full Moon	Scorpio 1°	Pink Moon
May 6, 2027	10:58	New Moon	Taurus 16°	—
May 20, 2027	10:59	Full Moon	Scorpio 29°	Flower Moon
Jun 4, 2027	19:40	New Moon	Gemini 14°	—
Jun 19, 2027	00:44	Full Moon	Sagittarius 28°	Strawberry Moon
Jul 4, 2027	03:02	New Moon	Cancer 12°	—
Jul 18, 2027	15:45	Full Moon	Capricorn 26°	Buck Moon · penumbral lunar eclipse
Aug 2, 2027	10:05	New Moon	Leo 10°	Total solar eclipse
Aug 17, 2027	07:29	Full Moon	Aquarius 24°	Sturgeon Moon · penumbral lunar eclipse
Aug 31, 2027	17:41	New Moon	Virgo 8°	—
Sep 15, 2027	23:04	Full Moon	Pisces 23°	Harvest Moon
Sep 30, 2027	02:36	New Moon	Libra 7°	—
Oct 15, 2027	13:47	Full Moon	Aries 22°	Hunter’s Moon
Oct 29, 2027	13:37	New Moon	Scorpio 6°	—
Nov 14, 2027	03:26	Full Moon	Taurus 22°	Beaver Moon
Nov 28, 2027	03:24	New Moon	Sagittarius 6°	—
Dec 13, 2027	16:09	Full Moon	Gemini 21°	Cold Moon
Dec 27, 2027	20:12	New Moon	Capricorn 6°	—

The nicknames — Buck, Sturgeon, Harvest — are almanac folklore, North American seasonal names for each month’s full moon. They carry no astrological weight, but since half the internet searches for them, they’re in the table. (The Harvest Moon is simply whichever full moon lands closest to the September equinox; in 2026 that’s September 26, in 2027 September 15.)

The eclipses hiding in this table

Roughly twice a year, for about a month at a time, the lunations line up with the Moon’s nodes — the points where the Moon’s orbit crosses the Sun’s path — and ordinary new and full moons sharpen into eclipses. Three eclipse seasons fall inside this calendar:

• August 2026. The total solar eclipse of August 12 — the one crossing Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain — is this table’s Leo new moon, followed by a partial lunar eclipse at the Pisces full moon on August 28. We’ve written a full guide to that pair.
• February 2027. An annular “ring of fire” solar eclipse on February 6 (visible from the southern Atlantic, coastal South America and West Africa), with a subtle penumbral lunar eclipse a fortnight later.
• July–August 2027. The heavyweight: the total solar eclipse of August 2, 2027, with over six minutes of totality near Luxor — the longest land totality of the century — on a path through southern Spain, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula; we’ve broken it down city by city. It is flanked by penumbral lunar eclipses on July 18 and August 17. (Penumbral means the Moon only crosses Earth’s outer shadow — astronomically real, visually a faint shading.)

Astrologically, eclipses are read as lunations with the volume turned up: new moons that start chapters rather than paragraphs, full moons whose reveals feel less optional. If an eclipse lands within a degree or two of something in your chart, it tends to be the one lunation that year you actually remember.

Two moons of the same sign, and other quirks

Calendars like this one reward a close look. Notice the full moons of April 20 and May 20, 2027: both in Scorpio — the first at 1°, the second at 29°. When a full moon lands right at the edge of a sign, the next one can fall in the same sign a month later, and that sign’s themes get an unusual double exposure. Notice also how the new moons drift backward through the degrees — 22° of Cancer in July 2026, 12° of Cancer a year later — the slow clockwork that eventually produces eclipses in new signs.

And if you only mark one date for atmosphere: Christmas Eve 2026 carries a full moon in Cancer, the Moon’s own sign — home, family, feelings at high tide, precisely on the night half the world sits down to dinner with relatives.

How to actually use a lunation

The sign gives every lunation its public flavour, and our Moon placement profiles tell you what each register feels like. But the private meaning — why one full moon rearranges your week while the next passes unnoticed — comes from your chart. Each lunation lands in one of your twelve houses, and the house names the life area on the desk: a new moon in your second is about money and worth; the same new moon in someone else’s seventh is about their marriage.

So the practical recipe is short. Check the table for the sign; read the sign’s register; then run your birth chart — free, in the browser, no account — and see which house 22° of Cancer actually falls in for you. If you were born under a full moon or a new moon yourself, that’s visible in the chart too, as the angle between your Sun and Moon — the difference between the two is its own story. For the day-to-day weather between lunations, the horoscope tracks the Moon’s sign as it goes.

Dates and times on this page cover July 2026 – December 2027 and were last verified July 2026. We extend the calendar as the horizon approaches.