{"id":402244,"date":"2025-09-06T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402244\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:02:11","slug":"this-september-full-moon-isnt-the-harvest-moon-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402244\/","title":{"rendered":"This September Full Moon Isn\u2019t the Harvest Moon\u2014Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

A full moon will rise on Sunday evening, September 7, and while there\u2019s been of lot of buzz about a lunar eclipse, take note\u2014if you\u2019re in the U.S. you won\u2019t be able to see it. It\u2019ll be broad daylight here (2:09 p.m. ET\/11:09\u202fa.m. PT) when moon gazers in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia are observing the event in the night sky, but you can watch it live online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This full moon is also notable for what it\u2019s not\u2014the Harvest Moon. This distinction goes to the full moon closest to the fall equinox on September 22<\/a>. Though that\u2019s usually September\u2019s full moon, every so often it falls in October. That\u2019s the case this year for the first time since 2020.<\/p>\n

What do you call September\u2019s full moon when it\u2019s not the Harvest Moon?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the Corn Moon, a seasonal nod to the corn that\u2019s ready to harvest about this time of year. According to T<\/a>he Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/a>, September\u2019s moon is traditionally linked to corn in multiple Native American tribes.<\/p>\n

What Is the Harvest Moon, anyway, and why does it change months?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

The Harvest Moon is also associated with the \u201cHarvest Moon Effect,\u201d when a full or nearly full moon rises at around sunset for several nights in a row during the harvest season. This is significant because, although a full moon always rises around sunset, the next evening, on average, it rises about 50 minutes later. But not during this full moon. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n

The moon\u2019s orbit happens to be tilted toward the Earth\u2019s horizon in the Northern Hemisphere around the time of the autumn equinox, according Astronomy Magazine<\/a>. The result: the moonrise time the day after a full moon is significantly earlier than you\u2019d expect. It might be only 20 minutes later than the evening before\u2014or even less than 10 minutes later because the effect increases the farther north you are. Before artificial lighting, this phenomenon helped farmers by giving them extra light in the evening to finish up the autumn harvest. Hence the name, Harvest Moon.<\/p>\n

Unlike other seasonal moon names<\/a> that are set by month, the timing of the Harvest Moon is tied to how the lunar cycle lines up with the fall equinox, which is usually September 22 or 23. That means the Harvest Moon can be as early as September 8 or as late as October 9. The full moon on September 7, 2025, is just outside that window.<\/p>\n

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Terri Robertson is the Senior Editor, Digital, at Country Living, where she shares her lifelong love of homes, gardens, down-home cooking, and antiques.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A full moon will rise on Sunday evening, September 7, and while there\u2019s been of lot of buzz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[1380,138755,1331,1381,70,138754,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-402244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-6c50c7a0-3f00-41a6-bcf6-bcbea737b09a","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-locale-us","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-shorttitle-why-this-september-full-moon-isnt-a-harvest-moon","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115156545986310679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}