Moon calendar for March 2027

Day by day

Key days of the month

The fastest month for light

Nothing changes faster than March: five minutes of extra daylight a day, the equinox on the 20th, and the clocks forward on the last Sunday, which shifts the entire evening in one jump. The sky lags behind that pace - winter's bright company sinks into the west and the spring constellations are dim by comparison - but the Plough sits directly overhead at midnight, and the region beneath Leo is packed with galaxies for anyone with a telescope and a dark garden.

Worm Moon, Lenten Moon

Worm Moon comes from the casts that appear in thawing ground and the thrushes that arrive to work them over; a later almanac note suggests beetle larvae emerging from bark instead, the same signal of spring in a different body. English usage had Lenten Moon for the same weeks. This full moon also carries the heaviest job in the calendar: the first one after the equinox sets the date of Easter and drags a month of public holidays around with it.

March questions

Easter moves because it is tied to this moon rather than to a fixed date, and the arithmetic is above in the key days. Then the clocks: for about a week afterwards, readers report the Moon rising at the wrong time, which is the hour on the phone rather than anything overhead. And sowing - March brings more of those questions than the rest of the year put together, and the gardening pages take them.

The Moon’s position is astronomy; the beliefs and interpretations are tradition, not scientific fact.