Full Moon May 2025 in Scorpio: the Flower Moon
The full moon of May 2025 is exact on Monday, May 12, 2025 at 16:56 UTC, with the Moon at 22°13' Scorpio and the Sun at 22°12' Taurus. Your time:
Status as of November 2, 2026: 538 days ago.
What time is the May 2025 full moon?
At 16:56 UTC on May 12, 2025, which is Mon, May 12, 12:56 PM in New York and Mon, May 12, 09:56 AM in Los Angeles.
What sign is the May 2025 full moon in?
Scorpio: the Moon is at 22°13' Scorpio, opposite the Sun at 22°12' Taurus.
What is the May 2025 full moon called?
The Flower Moon, the name given to May’s full moon in the North American naming tradition.
Is the May 2025 full moon a supermoon?
No, the opposite: at 405,267 km the Moon is beyond the 405,000 km micromoon line, number 11 of 2025’s 12 full moons by closeness.
Is the May 2025 full moon an eclipse?
No: the Moon passes 4.23° south of the ecliptic, too far from the Sun–Earth line for Earth’s shadow to reach it.
When is the next full moon after May 2025?
On June 11, 2025 at 07:44 UTC, in Sagittarius.
Computed details, May 12, 2025
| Exact time (UTC) | May 12, 2025, 16:56 UTC Your time: |
|---|---|
| Moon | ♏︎ 22°13' Scorpio |
| Sun | ♉︎ 22°12' Taurus |
| Name | Flower Moon The name given to May’s full moon. |
| Distance from Earth | 405,267 km (+20,867 km) |
| Apparent size | 29.5 arcminutes |
| Nearest perigee | May 26, 2025, 01:34 UTC · 359,014 km 13 d 9 h after |
| Distance from the ecliptic | 4.23° south |
| Closeness rank | 11 of 12 (2025) |
| Since the previous full moon | 29 d 17 h |
Local clock readings
| Place | Local time |
|---|---|
| Los Angeles | Mon, May 12, 09:56 AM |
| New York | Mon, May 12, 12:56 PM |
| London | Mon, May 12, 05:56 PM |
| India | Mon, May 12, 10:26 PM |
| Sydney | Tue, May 13, 02:56 AM |
What a full moon in Scorpio means
With the Moon in Scorpio and the Sun in Taurus, this full moon lights the Scorpio–Taurus axis: what started at the new moon in Taurus on April 27, 2025 comes to a head. Scorpio is a fixed water sign ruled by Pluto; its keywords: intense, penetrating, loyal.
Feeling deepens and goes quiet. People keep more to themselves, notice undercurrents, and hold grudges a little longer. Strong days for research, intimacy and honest reckoning; hard days for small talk.
The instant is the same everywhere; only the clock reading changes. Distances are centre to centre. There is no official supermoon definition: here a supermoon is a full moon with the Moon within 360,000 km of Earth, a micromoon one beyond 405,000 km. Computed with astronomy-engine, tropical zodiac. Data: full-moon/2025.json (CC0 JSON).