Supermoons in 2030
Which full moons of 2030 count as supermoons, with the computed distance of each one and the threshold used.
Supermoon
3
Distance from Earth
357,028 km
17 May 2030
Micromoon
1
Supermoon: < 363,300 km
Moon phases in 2030
| Date | Time (UTC) | Distance from Earth | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 2030 | 15:54 | 387,808 km | — |
| 18 Feb 2030 | 06:20 | 376,421 km | — |
| 19 Mar 2030 | 17:56 | 366,439 km | — |
| 18 Apr 2030 | 03:20 | 359,655 km | Supermoon |
| 17 May 2030 | 11:19 | 357,028 km | Supermoon |
| 15 Jun 2030 | 18:41 | 358,779 km | Supermoon |
| 15 Jul 2030 | 02:12 | 364,530 km | — |
| 13 Aug 2030 | 10:44 | 373,391 km | — |
| 11 Sept 2030 | 21:18 | 383,994 km | — |
| 11 Oct 2030 | 10:47 | 394,483 km | — |
| 10 Nov 2030 | 03:30 | 402,625 km | — |
| 09 Dec 2030 | 22:40 | 406,295 km | Micromoon |
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.