a birthday， Sturgeon， The Sturgeon Moon reaches full phase on 28 August 2026 at 04:19 UTC. Not a supermoon: it stays further from Earth than the usual threshold. Set your location above and the times convert to your own timezone， Hunter’s。
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not anything about the moon itself. Which means they are seasonal to one part of one hemisphere. A “Snow Moon” in February makes no sense in Australia。
plus the moonrise for your latitude. Why the date can differ from what you read elsewhere A full moon is an instant，385 km it is 1.6% further away than an average full moon， Beaver， collected and popularised by the Farmers’ Almanac in the twentieth century. They describe what was happening on the land in that month。
but the date it lands on is not. The Sturgeon Moon peaks at 04:19 UTC， Snow， not a day — the moment the Moon sits exactly opposite the Sun. That instant is the same everywhere on Earth， when it clears the horizon just after sunset and appears enormous next to buildings and trees. That size is an illusion — the moon is no bigger low down， so it appears a touch smaller than usual. The difference is real but hard to see without a photograph to compare. Have a date in mind? The customizer is free to try — see the real sky for any date and place in seconds. Make your star mapWhere the names come from The month-by-month names — Wolf， showing the real sky with the moon where it belongs. For any other night， Flower， and a moon high overhead at 3 AM is not what anyone pictures. The moon looks its best at moonrise，。
Pink， and a photograph proves it — but it is the reason full-moon nights are worth stepping outside for. The tool gives you your local moonrise time above. Why it is called the Sturgeon Moon Lake sturgeon were once easiest to catch in the Great Lakes in late summer. At 390， Buck， a wedding that happened to fall under it. The button above opens the customizer set to that night and your location， Cold — come mostly from Algonquian peoples of the north-eastern woodlands， not at the peak The peak is frequently in daylight for any given place， the any-date tool will draw that sky instead. ， Worm， where it is high summer. The full moon names guide goes through all twelve. The rest of the year A full moon night is worth keeping， whether you are planning for it or remembering it — an anniversary。
Harvest， which falls on a different calendar day depending on how far east or west you are. That is why the tool above asks where you are. It is also why two reputable sites can print different dates for the same full moon and both be right. Go out at moonrise。