04/22/2026
🌸 ONE MONTH. TWO FULL MOONS. MAY 2026 IS SPECIAL.
It starts with warmth and it ends with rarity.
On May 1, the Full Flower Moon rises — golden, abundant, the peak of spring blooming across North America.
On May 31, it returns — cooler, rarer, quieter — as the Blue Moon.
🌕 May 1 — The Flower Moon:
Full at 1:23 PM EDT, rising into the evening sky already completely lit.
Named for the wildflowers that blanket North American meadows in May — from purple lupine to white dogwood to fields of golden buttercup.
This is the Moon of spring at its most generous.
🔵 May 31 — The Blue Moon:
Full at 4:45 AM EDT — the second full moon in the same calendar month.
A Blue Moon does not appear blue. The name comes from an old expression for something rare — and a second full moon in one month genuinely is.
The next monthly Blue Moon will not arrive until December 2028.
This one is also the most distant full moon of all of 2026 — the Moon at its farthest orbital point, slightly smaller and cooler than its May 1 counterpart.
🌑 Two Micromoons, One Rare Month:
Both full moons in May occur near apogee — the Moon's farthest point from Earth in its elliptical orbit.
Neither will look as large as a supermoon. But that is not the point.
Two full moons in one calendar month, bookending the entire month from the 1st to the 31st, happens roughly once every two to three years.
May 2026 is one of those months.
Which of these two full moons will you be watching — the warm opening or the rare closing? 👇
