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Next full moon UK: dates for 2026 and 2027

The next full moon in the UK is the Hunter's Moon, full at Monday 26 October 2026 at 4:12am (GMT). Below are all thirteen full moons in 2026 and twelve in 2027, with their traditional names and London times, from NASA and checked against the Royal Observatory.

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A single full Moon high over an unlit open landscape on a clear night.

To the eye the Hunter's Moon looks full for about a day either side of that moment, so both evenings around Monday 26 October 2026 are worth a look.

There are thirteen full moons in 2026, not twelve, because May holds two: the Flower Moon on the 1st and a blue moon on the 31st. Every date below is the moment the Moon is exactly full, in London time.

For the full Moon on its own, Watercolour Moon shows it in loose watercolour wash, grey and silver pooling into the maria. The rest of the moon prints are on the moon wall art page.

Times are London local, computed by NASA’s Six Millennium Catalog of Phases of the Moon and checked against the Royal Observatory Greenwich full moon calendar for 2026. Both agree to the minute.

Every full moon in the UK, 2026

  • Wolf Moon: Saturday 3 January 2026, 10:03am GMT
  • Snow Moon: Sunday 1 February 2026, 10:09pm GMT
  • Worm Moon: Tuesday 3 March 2026, 11:38am GMT (a total lunar eclipse, not visible from the UK)
  • Pink Moon: Thursday 2 April 2026, 3:12am BST
  • Flower Moon: Friday 1 May 2026, 6:23pm BST
  • Blue Moon: Sunday 31 May 2026, 9:45am BST (blue moon)
  • Strawberry Moon: Tuesday 30 June 2026, 12:57am BST
  • Buck Moon: Wednesday 29 July 2026, 3:36pm BST
  • Sturgeon Moon: Friday 28 August 2026, 5:18am BST (a partial lunar eclipse)
  • Harvest Moon: Saturday 26 September 2026, 5:49pm BST
  • Hunter's Moon: Monday 26 October 2026, 4:12am GMT
  • Beaver Moon: Tuesday 24 November 2026, 2:53pm GMT
  • Cold Moon: Thursday 24 December 2026, 1:28am GMT
A full Moon rising beside a stone bridge and the Lincoln Memorial at dusk.
The January 2025 full Moon rising over the Lincoln Memorial, seen from Arlington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

Every full moon in the UK, 2027

Times are London local, computed by NASA’s Six Millennium Catalog of Phases of the Moon. The Royal Observatory has not yet published a 2027 calendar, so these have one source for now.

Visit the Moon as an A3 poster in a natural wood frame on an off-white wall above an oak sideboard with a lamp and plant

A printable 2027 Moon and meteor planner

The free A4 sheet brings together the twelve full-moon instants above and eight selected 2027 meteor-shower peak dates. It's a dated planning reference, not an all-events calendar: no weather forecast, visibility guarantee or eclipse timetable is included.

The planner comes as an A4 PDF for printing, a high-resolution PNG (300 dpi) or a scalable SVG; print the PDF at 100% on A4 paper. The full-moon list above and the linked shower tables provide the same information as readable text.

2027 planner listing twelve full moons in London time and eight selected meteor showers. The September full moon is on 16 September locally although its UTC date is 15 September. Sources and review date are printed below.
Full-moon times are London civil time, labelled GMT or BST. Meteor entries are source peak dates, which are not guaranteed local observing windows. Open the labelled diagram full size.

Sources and maintenance: the 2027 full moons are from NASA GSFC’s phase table and retain the single-source label used above. Shower dates come from the IMO 2027 Meteor Shower Calendar. Aphelion Prints maintains this sheet; reviewed 5 October 2026. This edition covers 2027. A later year needs a new source review and dated sheet; do not carry these dates forward. London’s clock change matters: the September full moon occurs after local midnight, on 16 September, even though its UTC date is 15 September.

Why the full moons have names

The names are folk names for months. They don't describe the Moon. Royal Museums Greenwich puts the tradition this way: Many of the Moon’s nicknames have come to us from Native American culture, because the lunar cycle mattered as much for keeping time as the solar year. Each page above quotes that source for the name it covers.

Nothing about the Moon changes from one name to the next. A Strawberry Moon and a Wolf Moon are the same object at the same phase; what changes is the time of year, and with it how high the Moon rides and how long it stays up. That part is real, and it's why a June full moon looks orange from a British garden and a December one doesn't.

These names are calendar and seasonal conventions. They aren't different types of Moon. The Harvest Moon is tied to the autumn equinox, the Hunter’s Moon follows it, and Blue Moon has monthly and seasonal definitions.

Watercolour Moon as a 30x40 cm canvas in a natural wood float frame on an off-white wall above an oak sideboard with a lamp and plant

Why a named full moon moves every year

A phase cycle is roughly 29.5 days, so it does not fit calendar months evenly. The full moon carrying the same calendar or seasonal name can fall earlier or later the following year. A month can contain two full moons, as May does in 2026; the 2026 and 2027 lists above show the actual comparison.

The Moon fully eclipsed, a deep copper red disc against a dark sky.
A blood moon is a total lunar eclipse: this one rose over New Orleans on 3 March 2026. Credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker.

Types of full moon: supermoon, blue moon, blood moon

These are nicknames for full moons that happen to coincide with something else. A supermoon is a full moon near perigee, the closest point of the Moon’s orbit; NASA puts it at up to about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than a full moon at its furthest, which is hard to tell by eye. A blue moon is an extra full moon in a month or a season, and it isn’t blue. A blood moon is a full moon during a total lunar eclipse, turned red by sunlight bent through Earth’s atmosphere.

The exact minute, and why it rarely matters

A full moon is a geometry moment, not a night: the instant the Moon sits opposite the Sun. The times above are that instant. To the eye the Moon looks full for roughly a day either side, so a moon listed as full at four in the morning is worth looking at on both the evenings around it.

We publish the minute anyway: if the dates are right, everything else here is easier to trust. Meteor watchers can see which shower peaks fall near a full moon in UK meteor showers and the Moon. If you want the phases themselves explained, start with the eight phases of the Moon, and Looking up collects the rest of the night-sky guides.

Watercolour Moon as a 40 x 50 cm canvas on a sage-grey bedroom wall above a headboard.
Watercolour Moon, 40 × 50 cm canvas, over a bed.

Putting a moon on the wall

A moon phase print is one of the few decorative objects where the picture can be wrong: the phases in the wrong order, a terminator on the wrong side, a crescent that could not exist. How to tell an accurate moon phase print is the checklist, and it applies wherever you buy one. Our own moon and lunar wall art is the range it describes.

Visit the Moon as an A2 poster in a black frame on a light grey wall above a grey sofa

Written by Craig Fearn, Aphelion Prints. Last updated .

Full moon questions

Is it a full moon tonight?
The Moon looks full for about a day either side of the exact moment. The next exact full moon is the Hunter's Moon at Monday 26 October 2026 at 4:12am (GMT), so if tonight is within a day of that, it will look full.
Is it a full moon tomorrow?
Only if tomorrow is within a day of Monday 26 October 2026, when the Hunter's Moon is exactly full at 4:12am GMT.
What time is the full moon in the UK?
The next one is at 4:12am GMT on Monday 26 October 2026, London time.
How many full moons are there in 2026?
Thirteen. May has two, on the 1st and the 31st, and the second is a blue moon.
When is the next full moon in the UK?
The list above is in order; the next one is the first date that has not passed. Every time is London local.
Is there a blue moon in 2026?
Yes, on Sunday 31 May 2026 at 9:45am BST, the second full moon of that month. What the term does and does not mean is set out on its own page.
Are the full moon names official?
No. They are folk names, mostly reaching us through Native American tradition, and different sources disagree about several of them. Royal Museums Greenwich is the source quoted throughout this cluster.
Do the names mean the Moon looks different?
No. The Moon is the same. What changes with the season is how high it rides and how long it is up, and that does change how it looks from the UK.
Several thin meteor streaks crossing a dark late-summer sky over open countryside.

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Meteor showers and the Moon →

Eight of the main meteor showers, their peak dates for 2026 and 2027, and how far each peak falls from a full moon. Dates from Royal Museums Greenwich and the International Meteor Organization.