Moon phase today and moon calendar

• The Moon today: a drawing of the current phase, the phase name, the illuminated percentage and whether the Moon is waxing (growing) or waning (shrinking).
• Moon age: days since the last new moon. A full cycle averages about 29.5 days.
• Upcoming phases: the exact date and time of the next new moon, first quarter, full moon and last quarter.
• Moon calendar: every day of the month with a small picture of the Moon at midday. Days with a main phase are marked NM, FQ, FM or LQ.
• Full moons of the year: each full moon with its time, traditional name, and a blue moon label when one applies.

All times are shown in the time zone your browser reports. Everything is calculated on your device; no location is requested or sent.

Phase	What you see (Northern Hemisphere)	Illumination
New moon	Moon not visible, close to the Sun	about 0%
Waxing crescent	Thin sliver on the right	1–49%
First quarter	Right half lit	about 50%
Waxing gibbous	More than half, growing	51–99%
Full moon	Whole disk lit	about 100%
Waning gibbous	More than half, shrinking	99–51%
Last quarter	Left half lit	about 50%
Waning crescent	Thin sliver on the left	49–1%

New moon, first quarter, full moon and last quarter are exact moments. The four in-between phases are periods that last about a week each. In the Southern Hemisphere the picture is mirrored: a waxing Moon is lit on the left.

In the US, each month's full moon has a traditional name, most popularized by the Farmer's Almanac and drawn from Native American, Colonial American and European sources:

Month	Name	Month	Name
January	Wolf Moon	July	Buck Moon
February	Snow Moon	August	Sturgeon Moon
March	Worm Moon	September	Corn Moon
April	Pink Moon	October	Hunter's Moon
May	Flower Moon	November	Beaver Moon
June	Strawberry Moon	December	Cold Moon

The Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the fall equinox, so it can land in September or early October; the full moon after it is the Hunter's Moon. The year list on the page applies that rule.

A blue moon in the popular sense is the second full moon in a single calendar month. Because the lunar cycle is about 29.5 days, it happens roughly once every two to three years. The page marks it automatically. (An older definition calls a blue moon the third full moon in a season that has four; the page uses the calendar-month meaning.)

A supermoon is a full moon that happens near perigee, the Moon's closest point to Earth, which makes it look slightly bigger and brighter. The page does not flag supermoons because there is no single official cutoff for the term.

Phase times come from Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms, the standard reference for this kind of calculation, and are accurate to within about a minute. Illumination is computed from the positions of the Sun and the Moon. The daily pictures in the calendar show the Moon at noon local time.

The phase is the same for everyone on Earth at a given moment, but the local date and time differ by time zone. A full moon at 1:30 a.m. Eastern time is still the previous evening in Los Angeles. If you plan to photograph a full moon, the night before and the night after look almost the same to the naked eye.