Full Moon: May 2026
The short answer
The Full Moon in May 2026 is exact at 17:24 UTC on 1 May 2026, at 11.3° Scorpio.
The Full Moon in May 2026 is exact at 17:24 UTC on 1 May 2026, at 11.3° Scorpio.
Exact instant: 17:24 UTC on 1 May 2026, at 11.3° Scorpio.
| City | Local time |
|---|---|
| Sydney | 3:24 am AEST, May 2 |
| London | 6:24 PM GMT+1, May 1 |
| New York | 1:24 PM EDT, May 1 |
| Los Angeles | 10:24 AM PDT, May 1 |
| Mumbai | 10:54 PM GMT+5:30, May 1 |
| Tokyo | 2:24 AM GMT+9, May 2 |
A second Full Moon lands in the same calendar month at 08:47 UTC on 31 May 2026, at 9.9° Sagittarius.
The sky at that moment
2nd decan of Scorpio (11.3°), the Pisces third of the sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter.
The Moon makes no major aspect to a planet within 5° at that moment.
Nineteen years earlier, on Wednesday 2 May 2007 (Sydney), the Full Moon fell at 11.6° Scorpio, 0.3° from this one: the Moon's phases come back to almost the same dates every 19 years.
Seeing it from Australia
From Australia this Full Moon looks upside down next to photos taken in the Northern Hemisphere: the dark plains that make the face sit the other way up, and it rises in the east as the Sun sets.
| City | Moonrise | Moonset |
|---|---|---|
| Brisbane | about 5:22 pm AEST | about 6:35 am AEST |
| Sydney | about 5:15 pm AEST | about 6:56 am AEST |
| Melbourne | about 5:30 pm AEST | about 7:32 am AEST |
| Adelaide | about 5:34 pm ACST | about 7:21 am ACST |
| Hobart | about 5:05 pm AEST | about 7:36 am AEST |
| Perth | about 5:44 pm AWST | about 7:19 am AWST |
| Darwin | about 6:53 pm ACST | about 7:10 am ACST |
Where it falls, by rising sign
What a full moon tends to do in a house: Full Moon meaning.
| Rising sign | Where this full moon falls for you |
|---|---|
| Aries | Your 8th house: joint finances, debt, tax, inheritance, and what you only say in private. |
| Taurus | Your 7th house: your significant other, close business partners, and open opponents. |
| Gemini | Your 6th house: the actual work of your days, routines, and your body's upkeep. |
| Cancer | Your 5th house: romance, flirtation, children, and anything you make for the joy of it. |
| Leo | Your 4th house: home, family, where you are from, and your private life. |
| Virgo | Your 3rd house: conversations, messages, short trips, siblings and neighbours. |
| Libra | Your 2nd house: the money you earn, what you own, and what you think you are worth. |
| Scorpio | Your 1st house: you, your body, your appearance, the first impression you make. |
| Sagittarius | Your 12th house: rest, retreat, endings, and what you have not admitted yet. |
| Capricorn | Your 11th house: friends, groups, networks, and what you are aiming at next. |
| Aquarius | Your 10th house: your career, your public standing, and the people above you. |
| Pisces | Your 9th house: long trips, study, publishing, law, and what you believe. |
Where this time comes from
A lunation is the instant the Sun-Moon angle crosses 0° (New Moon) or 180° (Full Moon), found by scanning the real ephemeris hourly and bisecting to the exact minute. The same engine drives the full moon calendar.
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