Beaver Moon 2025: November’s Supermoon Spectacle Illuminates Sky and Storytelling
The Beaver Moon occurs on November 5, 2025, with peak illumination at 13:19 GMT (8:19 a.m. EST). At peak, the Moon will be about 356,980 km (221,818 miles) from Earth, roughly 7.9% closer and about 16% brighter than an average full Moon. It’s a supermoon—the biggest and brightest full Moon of 2025, and the closest full Moon since 2019. The full Moon is traditionally Beaver Moon, but in 2025 it can also be regarded as the Hunter’s Moon because the Harvest Moon fell on October 6; this overlap last occurred in 2020 and won’t recur until 2028. The Moon sits