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Moon in Sydney Today — Full Moon

Current lunar phase and 30-day moon calendar for Sydney, Australia. Updated hourly.

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Sydney, Australia — 2 mai 2026

Full Moon

97% illuminated · 16.4 days into cycle

Lunar Data for Sydney — Today

Moonrise17:09
Moonset8:01
Phase🌕 Full Moon
Illumination97%
Moon Age16.4 days into lunar cycle
Distance404,380 km
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Next Full Moon

30 mai 2026

Flower Moon

in 28 days

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Next New Moon

15 mai 2026

in 14 days

Moon in Sydney — Did You Know?

  • ·Sydney's Aboriginal Gadigal people of the Eora Nation used the full moon as a communal fishing signal: the bright nights were called 'parra' times, when groups would gather along what is now Sydney Harbour to spear fish by moonlight — a tradition whose memory is preserved in the place name Parramatta ('the place where eels lie down'), a site still illuminated by the same moon.
  • ·The Sydney Harbour Bridge frames the moon's rise over the Pacific so precisely from Mrs Macquarie's Chair that local photographers maintain a calendar of exact dates when the moon emerges from behind the bridge's eastern arch — a spectacle that has no equivalent in any other harbour city, as the bridge's 503-metre span acts as a giant lunar transit instrument.
  • ·Sydney's latitude of 33.9°S means it is in the Southern Hemisphere, where the moon arcs through the northern sky; in summer (December), the full moon reaches only about 30° altitude while in winter it climbs to approximately 80° — the reverse of Northern Hemisphere cities — giving Sydneysiders their highest, most dramatic moons in the cold months of June and July.

30-Day Moon Phase Calendar — Sydney

DatePhaseIllumination
Today🌕Full Moon97%
3 mai🌖Waning Gibbous93%
4 mai🌖Waning Gibbous86%
5 mai🌖Waning Gibbous78%
6 mai🌗Last Quarter69%
7 mai🌗Last Quarter58%
8 mai🌗Last Quarter48%
9 mai🌗Last Quarter37%
10 mai🌘Waning Crescent27%
11 mai🌘Waning Crescent18%
12 mai🌘Waning Crescent11%
13 mai🌘Waning Crescent5%
14 mai🌑New Moon2%
15 mai🌑New Moon0%
16 mai🌑New Moon1%
17 mai🌑New Moon4%
18 mai🌒Waxing Crescent9%
19 mai🌒Waxing Crescent16%
20 mai🌒Waxing Crescent24%
21 mai🌓First Quarter34%
22 mai🌓First Quarter44%
23 mai🌓First Quarter55%
24 mai🌓First Quarter65%
25 mai🌔Waxing Gibbous75%
26 mai🌔Waxing Gibbous83%
27 mai🌔Waxing Gibbous91%
28 mai🌔Waxing Gibbous96%
29 mai🌕Full Moon99%
30 mai🌕Full Moon100%
31 mai🌕Full Moon99%

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Questions Fréquentes

Tonight the moon in Sydney is in the Full Moon phase. It is 97% illuminated and 16.4 days into the current lunar cycle. Moon phases are the same worldwide — only the exact local clock time of moonrise and moonset differs by location.
The next full moon occurs on 30 mai 2026, which is 28 days from today. During a full moon the Moon is 100% illuminated as seen from Earth.
The next new moon occurs on 15 mai 2026, in 14 days. The new moon marks the start of a fresh 29.5-day lunar cycle and is not visible in the night sky.
A lunar (synodic) cycle lasts approximately 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes — or 29.53 days. It runs from one new moon to the next, passing through 8 distinct phases: New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, and Waning Crescent.
No — the moon phase (the fraction of the Moon illuminated) is the same everywhere on Earth at any given moment. However, moonrise and moonset times, as well as the moon's altitude in the sky, vary by location. The moon also appears upside-down in the Southern Hemisphere compared to the Northern Hemisphere.
The moon rises at approximately 17:09 local time in Sydney tonight. Moonrise shifts about 50 minutes later each night as the Moon moves eastward along its orbit, completing a full cycle roughly every 29.5 days.
The next full moon on 30 mai 2026 is known as the Flower Moon. These traditional names — originating with Native American tribes and later adopted in the Farmer's Almanac — each reflect a seasonal event or natural phenomenon of that month visible from the Northern Hemisphere.
No — the Moon is currently at approximately 404,380 km, a typical orbital distance. A supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with the Moon being within roughly 360,000 km of Earth (near perigee). The Moon's distance varies between ~356,500 km (perigee) and ~406,700 km (apogee) over each ~27.3-day anomalistic month.
From Sydney at 33.9°S latitude, the full moon's maximum altitude above the horizon varies by season. In the local hemisphere's winter — when the full moon is opposite a low winter sun — it can reach roughly 80° above the horizon. In summer it arcs lower, around 33°. This seasonal variation is the same reason the sun is high in summer and low in winter.
The Moon's phase is identical everywhere on Earth simultaneously. However, its orientation in the sky differs by hemisphere: in the Northern Hemisphere the waxing crescent curves to the left; in the Southern Hemisphere it curves to the right. From Sydney at 33.9°S, the Moon arcs through the northern sky. Moonrise and moonset times also differ by longitude — a city 15° to the east sees the Moon rise roughly 1 hour earlier.

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Data verified by Dr. Meera Iyer, Astrophysicist · Sources: Jean Meeus' Astronomical Algorithms · Methodology
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