Supermoons in 2028
Which full moons of 2028 count as supermoons, with the computed distance of each one and the threshold used.
Supermoon
3
Distance from Earth
356,720 km
10 Feb 2028
Micromoon
1
Supermoon: < 363,300 km
Moon phases in 2028
| Date | Time (UTC) | Distance from Earth | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jan 2028 | 04:03 | 360,266 km | Supermoon |
| 10 Feb 2028 | 15:04 | 356,720 km | Supermoon |
| 11 Mar 2028 | 01:06 | 358,074 km | Supermoon |
| 09 Apr 2028 | 10:27 | 363,867 km | — |
| 08 May 2028 | 19:49 | 372,909 km | — |
| 07 Jun 2028 | 06:09 | 383,571 km | — |
| 06 Jul 2028 | 18:11 | 393,953 km | — |
| 05 Aug 2028 | 08:10 | 402,066 km | — |
| 03 Sept 2028 | 23:48 | 406,158 km | Micromoon |
| 03 Oct 2028 | 16:25 | 405,161 km | — |
| 02 Nov 2028 | 09:17 | 399,078 km | — |
| 02 Dec 2028 | 01:40 | 389,145 km | — |
| 31 Dec 2028 | 16:48 | 377,600 km | — |
How these times are calculated
There is no official definition of a supermoon. Here a supermoon is a full moon closer than 363,300 km to the centre of the Earth, the mean perigee distance — the threshold that reproduces the lists published by Fred Espenak and by the press. The computed distance is always shown next to it so you can judge the borderline cases yourself.
The Moon’s position comes from Meeus’s series (chapter 47, full tables), accurate to about 10 arcseconds. Moonrise and moonset use the standard altitude 0.7275·π − 0.5667°, with π the horizontal parallax, which is the USNO convention. The instants of new moon, full moon and the quarters come from Meeus chapter 49, converted from Dynamical Time to UTC. Checked against the USNO: all 50 phases of 2026 agree to within 41 seconds, and moonrise, moonset and illumination agree to the minute and to the percentage point.