The Snow Moon is full on 20 February. Watch it rise in the east as the sun goes down.
It rises full on the evening of 20 February in the Americas, Europe and Africa, and of 21 February in most of Asia and Oceania. The Snow Moon is February’s full moon, by the names North American almanacs give each month’s. It is 363,306 km away, with a penumbral lunar eclipse.
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The Americas
Atlanta20 Feb · rises 6:24 PM in the east-north-east · full at 6:23 PM
Austin20 Feb · rises 6:23 PM in the east · full at 5:23 PM
Bogotá20 Feb · rises 6:05 PM in the east · full at 6:23 PM
Boston20 Feb · rises 5:17 PM in the east-north-east · full at 6:23 PM
Buenos Aires20 Feb · rises 7:32 PM in the east-north-east · full at 8:23 PM
Chicago20 Feb · rises 5:28 PM in the east-north-east · full at 5:23 PM
Dallas20 Feb · rises 6:17 PM in the east · full at 5:23 PM
Denver20 Feb · rises 5:44 PM in the east-north-east · full at 4:23 PM
Houston20 Feb · rises 6:14 PM in the east · full at 5:23 PM
Las Vegas20 Feb · rises 5:30 PM in the east-north-east · full at 3:23 PM
Lima20 Feb · rises 6:29 PM in the east · full at 6:23 PM
Los Angeles20 Feb · rises 5:46 PM in the east · full at 3:23 PM
Mexico City20 Feb · rises 6:38 PM in the east · full at 5:23 PM
Miami20 Feb · rises 6:14 PM in the east · full at 6:23 PM
Minneapolis20 Feb · rises 5:47 PM in the east-north-east · full at 5:23 PM
Montréal20 Feb · rises 5:23 PM in the east-north-east · full at 6:23 PM
Nashville20 Feb · rises 5:31 PM in the east-north-east · full at 5:23 PM
New Orleans20 Feb · rises 5:51 PM in the east · full at 5:23 PM
New York20 Feb · rises 5:32 PM in the east-north-east · full at 6:23 PM
Philadelphia20 Feb · rises 5:38 PM in the east-north-east · full at 6:23 PM
Phoenix20 Feb · rises 6:20 PM in the east · full at 4:23 PM
Portland20 Feb · rises 5:51 PM in the east-north-east · full at 3:23 PM
Rio de Janeiro20 Feb · rises 6:18 PM in the east-north-east · full at 8:23 PM
Salt Lake City20 Feb · rises 6:12 PM in the east-north-east · full at 4:23 PM
San Diego20 Feb · rises 5:42 PM in the east · full at 3:23 PM
San Francisco20 Feb · rises 5:59 PM in the east-north-east · full at 3:23 PM
Santiago20 Feb · rises 8:21 PM in the east-north-east · full at 8:23 PM
São Paulo20 Feb · rises 6:33 PM in the east-north-east · full at 8:23 PM
Seattle20 Feb · rises 5:46 PM in the east-north-east · full at 3:23 PM
Toronto20 Feb · rises 5:51 PM in the east-north-east · full at 6:23 PM
Vancouver20 Feb · rises 5:47 PM in the east-north-east · full at 3:23 PM
Washington, DC20 Feb · rises 5:47 PM in the east-north-east · full at 6:23 PM
Europe
Amsterdam20 Feb · rises 5:37 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Athens20 Feb · rises 5:44 PM in the east-north-east · full at 1:23 AM on 21 Feb
Barcelona20 Feb · rises 6:10 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Berlin20 Feb · rises 5:01 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Brussels20 Feb · rises 5:43 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Copenhagen20 Feb · rises 4:56 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Dublin20 Feb · rises 5:23 PM in the east-north-east · full at 11:23 PM
Edinburgh20 Feb · rises 5:03 PM in the east-north-east · full at 11:23 PM
Hamburg20 Feb · rises 5:13 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Helsinki20 Feb · rises 4:48 PM in the east-north-east · full at 1:23 AM on 21 Feb
Istanbul20 Feb · rises 6:17 PM in the east-north-east · full at 2:23 AM on 21 Feb
Lisbon20 Feb · rises 6:01 PM in the east-north-east · full at 11:23 PM
London20 Feb · rises 5:01 PM in the east-north-east · full at 11:23 PM
Madrid20 Feb · rises 6:36 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Milan20 Feb · rises 5:34 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Moscow20 Feb · rises 5:09 PM in the east-north-east · full at 2:23 AM on 21 Feb
Munich20 Feb · rises 5:18 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Nice20 Feb · rises 5:45 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Oslo20 Feb · rises 4:50 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Paris20 Feb · rises 5:56 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Porto20 Feb · rises 5:56 PM in the east-north-east · full at 11:23 PM
Prague20 Feb · rises 5:02 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Reykjavík20 Feb · rises 5:53 PM in the east-north-east · full at 11:23 PM
Rome20 Feb · rises 5:25 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Stockholm20 Feb · rises 4:21 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Venice20 Feb · rises 5:20 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Vienna20 Feb · rises 4:58 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Warsaw20 Feb · rises 4:29 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Zürich20 Feb · rises 5:33 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Africa
Cairo20 Feb · rises 5:23 PM in the east-north-east · full at 1:23 AM on 21 Feb
Cape Town20 Feb · rises 7:17 PM in the east-north-east · full at 1:23 AM on 21 Feb
Lagos20 Feb · rises 6:42 PM in the east-north-east · full at 12:23 AM on 21 Feb
Marrakesh20 Feb · rises 6:05 PM in the east-north-east · full at 11:23 PM
Nairobi20 Feb · rises 6:30 PM in the east-north-east · full at 2:23 AM on 21 Feb
Asia
Bali21 Feb · rises 6:59 PM in the east · full at 7:23 AM
Bangkok21 Feb · rises 6:50 PM in the east · full at 6:23 AM
Beijing21 Feb · rises 6:27 PM in the east · full at 7:23 AM
Bengaluru20 Feb · rises 5:57 PM in the east-north-east · full at 4:53 AM on 21 Feb
Delhi20 Feb · rises 5:42 PM in the east-north-east · full at 4:53 AM on 21 Feb
Hong Kong21 Feb · rises 6:48 PM in the east · full at 7:23 AM
Kyoto21 Feb · rises 6:10 PM in the east · full at 8:23 AM
Mumbai20 Feb · rises 6:10 PM in the east-north-east · full at 4:53 AM on 21 Feb
Osaka21 Feb · rises 6:11 PM in the east · full at 8:23 AM
Seoul21 Feb · rises 6:44 PM in the east · full at 8:23 AM
Shanghai21 Feb · rises 6:12 PM in the east · full at 7:23 AM
Singapore21 Feb · rises 7:42 PM in the east · full at 7:23 AM
Taipei21 Feb · rises 6:16 PM in the east · full at 7:23 AM
Tel Aviv20 Feb · rises 5:05 PM in the east-north-east · full at 1:23 AM on 21 Feb
Tokyo21 Feb · rises 5:52 PM in the east · full at 8:23 AM
Oceania
Auckland21 Feb · rises 8:13 PM in the east · full at 12:23 PM
Brisbane21 Feb · rises 6:34 PM in the east · full at 9:23 AM
Honolulu20 Feb · rises 6:42 PM in the east · full at 1:23 PM
Melbourne21 Feb · rises 8:15 PM in the east · full at 10:23 AM
Perth21 Feb · rises 7:10 PM in the east · full at 7:23 AM
Sydney21 Feb · rises 7:46 PM in the east · full at 10:23 AM
How it is worked out
The nameThe Snow Moon is February’s full moon, by the names North American almanacs give each month’s. 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 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 Harvest Moon15 September 2027 The Corn Moon3 September 2028Make time for the light.
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