Almanac · The Moon
Full Moon September 2026: the Harvest Moon
The Harvest Moon was full on Sat 26 Sep 2026 at 16:48 UTC, when the Moon stood opposite the Sun. The next full Moon is the Beaver Moon, November 2026.
- Full
- Name Harvest Moon The full Moon nearest the September equinox
- Supermoon No Nearer than 360,000 km at full
How much of the night it is up, 26–27 Sep
| Latitude | Moonrise and moonset | Up for | Share of the night |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60°N | Up from sunset to sunrise | 12.1 h of the 12.1 h night | 100% |
| 45°N | Up from sunset to sunrise | 12 h of the 12 h night | 100% |
| 30°N | Up from sunset to sunrise | 12 h of the 12 h night | 100% |
| 15°N | Up from sunset to sunrise | 11.9 h of the 11.9 h night | 100% |
| 0° | Up from sunset to sunrise | 11.9 h of the 11.9 h night | 100% |
| 15°S | Up from sunset to sunrise | 11.8 h of the 11.8 h night | 100% |
| 30°S | Rises 17:59, up until sunrise | 11.7 h of the 11.7 h night | 100% |
| 45°S | Rises 18:07, sets 05:39 | 11.5 h of the 11.6 h night | 99% |
How we worked it out: full Moon is the instant the Moon’s ecliptic longitude stands 180° from the Sun’s, from Meeus’s lunar theory, the one the map draws the Moon by, checked against the U.S. Naval Observatory’s times and JPL Horizons. Names are the North American almanacs’, with the Harvest Moon the full Moon nearest the September equinox and a Blue Moon the second in a calendar month, both in UTC: a full Moon early on the 1st can fall in the month before west of Greenwich. A supermoon is a full Moon nearer than 360,000 km. Each latitude’s night runs from sunset to sunrise at Greenwich’s longitude, the night /tonight would draw there, so its times are local solar time, give or take the hour or two a time zone is off the Sun. The method and its measured error.