The Harvest Moon is full on 15 September. Watch it rise in the east as the sun goes down.
It rises full on the evening of 15 September in the Americas, Europe and Africa, and of 16 September in most of Asia and Oceania. The Harvest Moon is the full moon nearest the September equinox. It is 399,356 km away.
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The Americas
Atlanta15 Sep · rises 7:27 PM in the east · full at 7:03 PM
Austin15 Sep · rises 7:21 PM in the east · full at 6:03 PM
Bogotá15 Sep · rises 5:45 PM in the east · full at 6:03 PM
Boston15 Sep · rises 6:32 PM in the east · full at 7:03 PM
Buenos Aires15 Sep · rises 6:41 PM in the east · full at 8:03 PM
Chicago15 Sep · rises 6:40 PM in the east · full at 6:03 PM
Dallas15 Sep · rises 7:17 PM in the east · full at 6:03 PM
Denver15 Sep · rises 6:50 PM in the east · full at 5:03 PM
Houston15 Sep · rises 7:12 PM in the east · full at 6:03 PM
Las Vegas15 Sep · rises 6:32 PM in the east · full at 4:03 PM
Lima15 Sep · rises 5:58 PM in the east · full at 6:03 PM
Los Angeles15 Sep · rises 6:44 PM in the east · full at 4:03 PM
Mexico City15 Sep · rises 6:28 PM in the east · full at 5:03 PM
Miami15 Sep · rises 7:10 PM in the east · full at 7:03 PM
Minneapolis15 Sep · rises 7:02 PM in the east · full at 6:03 PM
Montréal15 Sep · rises 6:42 PM in the east · full at 7:03 PM
Nashville15 Sep · rises 6:36 PM in the east · full at 6:03 PM
New Orleans15 Sep · rises 6:50 PM in the east · full at 6:03 PM
New York15 Sep · rises 6:44 PM in the east · full at 7:03 PM
Philadelphia15 Sep · rises 6:49 PM in the east · full at 7:03 PM
Phoenix15 Sep · rises 6:19 PM in the east · full at 4:03 PM
Portland15 Sep · rises 7:01 PM in the east · full at 4:03 PM
Rio de Janeiro15 Sep · rises 5:38 PM in the east · full at 8:03 PM
Salt Lake City15 Sep · rises 7:18 PM in the east · full at 5:03 PM
San Diego15 Sep · rises 6:40 PM in the east · full at 4:03 PM
San Francisco15 Sep · rises 7:01 PM in the east · full at 4:03 PM
Santiago15 Sep · rises 7:32 PM in the east · full at 8:03 PM
São Paulo15 Sep · rises 5:52 PM in the east · full at 8:03 PM
Seattle15 Sep · rises 6:59 PM in the east · full at 4:03 PM
Toronto15 Sep · rises 7:06 PM in the east · full at 7:03 PM
Vancouver15 Sep · rises 7:02 PM in the east · full at 4:03 PM
Washington, DC15 Sep · rises 6:57 PM in the east · full at 7:03 PM
Europe
Amsterdam15 Sep · rises 7:26 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Athens15 Sep · rises 7:07 PM in the east · full at 2:03 AM on 16 Sep
Barcelona15 Sep · rises 7:35 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Berlin15 Sep · rises 6:52 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Brussels15 Sep · rises 7:28 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Copenhagen15 Sep · rises 6:56 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Dublin15 Sep · rises 7:11 PM in the east · full at 12:03 AM on 16 Sep
Edinburgh15 Sep · rises 6:59 PM in the east · full at 12:03 AM on 16 Sep
Hamburg15 Sep · rises 7:06 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Helsinki15 Sep · rises 7:07 PM in the east · full at 2:03 AM on 16 Sep
Istanbul15 Sep · rises 6:46 PM in the east · full at 2:03 AM on 16 Sep
Lisbon15 Sep · rises 7:21 PM in the east · full at 12:03 AM on 16 Sep
London15 Sep · rises 6:46 PM in the east · full at 12:03 AM on 16 Sep
Madrid15 Sep · rises 7:59 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Milan15 Sep · rises 7:07 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Moscow15 Sep · rises 6:15 PM in the east · full at 2:03 AM on 16 Sep
Munich15 Sep · rises 6:58 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Nice15 Sep · rises 7:15 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Oslo15 Sep · rises 7:04 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Paris15 Sep · rises 7:36 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Porto15 Sep · rises 7:19 PM in the east · full at 12:03 AM on 16 Sep
Prague15 Sep · rises 6:47 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Reykjavík15 Sep · rises 7:16 PM in the east · full at 11:03 PM
Rome15 Sep · rises 6:53 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Stockholm15 Sep · rises 6:35 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Venice15 Sep · rises 6:55 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Vienna15 Sep · rises 6:39 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Warsaw15 Sep · rises 6:21 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Zürich15 Sep · rises 7:10 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Africa
Cairo15 Sep · rises 6:36 PM in the east · full at 2:03 AM on 16 Sep
Cape Town15 Sep · rises 6:22 PM in the east · full at 1:03 AM on 16 Sep
Lagos15 Sep · rises 6:27 PM in the east · full at 12:03 AM on 16 Sep
Marrakesh15 Sep · rises 7:16 PM in the east · full at 12:03 AM on 16 Sep
Nairobi15 Sep · rises 6:09 PM in the east · full at 2:03 AM on 16 Sep
Asia
Bali16 Sep · rises 6:30 PM in the east · full at 7:03 AM
Bangkok15 Sep · rises 5:50 PM in the east · full at 6:03 AM on 16 Sep
Beijing16 Sep · rises 6:13 PM in the east · full at 7:03 AM
Bengaluru15 Sep · rises 5:54 PM in the east · full at 4:33 AM on 16 Sep
Delhi15 Sep · rises 5:58 PM in the east · full at 4:33 AM on 16 Sep
Hong Kong16 Sep · rises 6:27 PM in the east · full at 7:03 AM
Kyoto16 Sep · rises 5:56 PM in the east · full at 8:03 AM
Mumbai15 Sep · rises 6:14 PM in the east · full at 4:33 AM on 16 Sep
Osaka16 Sep · rises 5:57 PM in the east · full at 8:03 AM
Seoul16 Sep · rises 6:31 PM in the east · full at 8:03 AM
Shanghai16 Sep · rises 5:55 PM in the east · full at 7:03 AM
Singapore16 Sep · rises 7:14 PM in the east · full at 7:03 AM
Taipei16 Sep · rises 5:56 PM in the east · full at 7:03 AM
Tel Aviv15 Sep · rises 6:21 PM in the east · full at 2:03 AM on 16 Sep
Tokyo16 Sep · rises 5:40 PM in the east · full at 8:03 AM
Oceania
Auckland16 Sep · rises 6:29 PM in the east · full at 11:03 AM
Brisbane16 Sep · rises 5:57 PM in the east · full at 9:03 AM
Honolulu15 Sep · rises 6:28 PM in the east · full at 1:03 PM
Melbourne16 Sep · rises 6:34 PM in the east · full at 9:03 AM
Perth16 Sep · rises 6:33 PM in the east · full at 7:03 AM
Sydney16 Sep · rises 6:07 PM in the east · full at 9:03 AM
How it is worked out
The nameThe Harvest Moon is the full moon nearest the September equinox. The names here follow the calendar in UTC, so near a month’s end a full moon can carry the next month’s name in the Americas.
FullFull is the instant the moon stands opposite the sun, worked out from Meeus’s lunar theory to the minute.
The evening it rises fullOf the moonrises on the day it is full and the days either side, the one nearest that instant: the moon’s upper edge clearing a level horizon, as on the moon pages.
A supermoonA full moon nearer than 363,000 km, the almanacs’ rule.
The other full moons
The Hunter's Moon26 October 2026 The Beaver Moon24 November 2026 The Cold Moon24 December 2026 The Wolf Moon22 January 2027 The Snow Moon20 February 2027 The Worm Moon22 March 2027 The Pink Moon20 April 2027 The Flower Moon20 May 2027 The Strawberry Moon19 June 2027 The Buck Moon18 July 2027 The Sturgeon Moon17 August 2027 The Corn Moon3 September 2028Make time for the light.
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