We’ve already experienced some impressive celestial events this year – the deepest strawberry moon in almost two decades, a blood moon with the longest totality since 2022, a particularly brightly shining buck moon and the biggest shooting star night of the year. But now the next highlight is just around the corner: on October 7, 2025, the moon will reach its full glory in the sign of Aries at 05:48. At first glance, this sounds unspectacular – but it is actually a rare interplay between the moon’s orbit and the calendar: the full moon will be both a harvest moon and a supermoon.
Harvest moon and supermoon in October 2025
Autumn in Berlin offers golden moments – the city shows its most beautiful seasonal side everywhere: in the colorful parks, at atmospheric pumpkin festivals or a little outside, where the autumnal landscape can be impressively observed from a 700-meter-long treetop path. But it’s not just on the ground that the magic of this time of year unfolds – the sky also plays its part: Tomorrow, the full moon will shine brighter than usual as it appears as a super moon – around 6.6 percent larger and around 13 percent brighter than usual. This is also known as a moon illusion: When the moon is low in the sky, close to the horizon, it appears significantly larger in comparison to objects such as buildings or trees. This illusion occurs particularly frequently during full moons around the equinox – such as the full harvest moon.
The so-called supermoon occurs when the full moon passes particularly close to the Earth on its elliptical orbit. The next supermoon, which will also be the largest of the year, will follow on November 5. On October 21, however, we can observe the new moon. The full harvest moon usually falls at the end of September, but for the first time in five years it will be in October. The harvest full moon is the full moon closest to the autumn equinox. It owes its name to the farmers who used the light of the full moon to extend their harvest after sunset. And don’t worry: if you miss the full moon on October 7, you can still observe it three days later.