The final full moon of 2024 takes place in mid-December, with the upcoming Cold Moon expected to be visible to stargazers during the early hours of the morning on December 15.
Heading into 2025, we will see 12 full moons, one for every month, set to shine in the night sky. A full moon happens when the sun fully illuminates the moon and is visible from the Earth. The sun, Earth, and moon are all in alignment whenever a full moon occurs.
Here are the 12 full moon dates of 2025, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac full moon calendar.
Full moon names are traditionally rooted in culture, particularly among Native American tribes, who used the moon to track the seasons, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
The first full moon of 2025, named a Wolf Moon, references the howling of hungry wolves in the winter, according to Time and Date.
How many supermoons are there in 2025?
Supermoons, which only occur a few times a year, happen when the moon is at or near its closest point to Earth in its orbit, according to London's Natural History Museum. There will be three supermoons in 2025, which will take place toward the end of the year.
There will be two lunar eclipses in 2025. Both will be total eclipses, according to NASA.
The first will happen on March 14, 2025, and will be visible to the Pacific, the Americas, Western Europe and Western Africa.
The second lunar eclipse will take place September 7, but it won't be seen in Ohio or the rest of North America. Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia will be able to view this lunar eclipse.
According to NASA, a total lunar eclipse happens when the moon moves into the inner part of Earth's shadow (the umbra). Some of the sunlight passing through Earth's atmosphere reaches the Moon's surface, lighting it dimly. Colors with shorter wavelengths -- the blues and violets -- scatter more easily than colors with longer wavelengths, like red and orange. Because the longer wavelengths make it through Earth's atmosphere and reach the moon, it appears orangish or reddish during a lunar eclipse.