Overview

• The Moon reaches full phase at 03:48 UTC on October 7 (11:48 p.m. EDT on October 6), with prominent evening moonrises on October 6–7 depending on location.
• Classed as a supermoon, it will be the largest and brightest full moon of 2025 and the first supermoon since November 2024.
• Best viewing is just after sunset low in the eastern sky across the Northern Hemisphere, including most of India, with dark, unobstructed horizons recommended.
• Around this seasonal full moon, the typical ~50‑minute nightly delay in moonrise shrinks markedly—for example to about 24 minutes in Boston, 37 in Miami and 11 in Edmonton—while the apparent size near the horizon is a well‑known visual illusion, NASA notes.
• October’s sky also features the Draconids around October 8, long‑running Taurid fireballs through mid‑October into November, the Orionids peaking October 21–22 under a new moon, and Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) nearing closest approach on October 21 with naked‑eye visibility uncertain but binocular viewing favored.