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Supermoon Dates

Monday, June 17th, 2013

The next full moon falls on June 23, 2013 at 11:32 UTC. (US time zones: 4:32 am PDT, 5:32 a.m. MDT, 6:32 a.m. CDT, 7:32 a.m. for other time zones you can click the link to convert 11:32 UTC to your local time and date). This full moon will be called supermoon or super full moon or perigee full moon because of the closest approach of the full moon to the Earth for all of 2013. Supermoon could be up to 30% brighter and 14% larger then at its apogee furthest point.

See also: Moon Phase Tonight – current (or at any time) Moon’s phase and position, parameters, such as illumination, elongation, distance to the Earth, …

Table below lists supermoon dates between 2010 and 2016. As you can see on May 6, 2012 super full moon was ‘extremely super’. There was only 2 minutes difference between perigee and full moon.

Year Super Full Moon Perigee Difference
Date UTC Dist. [km] Date UTC Dist. [km] Time Dist. [km]
2010 Jan 30 6:19 356607.267 Jan 30 9:04 356593.813 2h 45m 13.454
2011 Mar 19 18:11 356579.792 Mar 19 19:10 356578.229 0h 59m 1.563
2012 May 6 3:36 356954.016 May 6 3:34 356954.015 0h 2m 0.01
2013 Jun 23 11:32 356991.415 Jun 23 11:11 356991.226 0h 21m 0.189
2014 Aug 10 18:11 356898.198 Aug 10 17:44 356897.888 0h 27m 0.310
2015 Sep 28 2:52 356878.329 Sep 28 1:47 356876.424 1h 5m 1.905
2016 Nov 14 13:54 356522.757 Nov 14 11:24 356511.782 2h 30m 10.975