June 3, 2023 Moon

The wild strawberries that start to ripen during early summer gave name to June’s Full Moon. Other names for this Full Moon are Rose Moon, Hot Moon, and Mead Moon.

Paddleboarders below a rising Strawberry Moon at Barceloneta beach, Barcelona, Spain.

©iStockphoto.com/DinoGeromella

Strawberry Moon 2022

Jun 14, 2022 at 7:51 am

Strawberry Moon 2023

Jun 3, 2023 at 11:41 pm

Times for the Strawberry Moon vary by time zone. Times and dates are based on the local time in Toronto. Change location

Named After Ripening Strawberries

June’s Full Moon is named after the wild strawberries that ripen this month and could be gathered by the Native American tribes. Other native names are Berries Ripen Moon, Green Corn Moon, and Hot Moon.

The Celtic names are Horse Moon, Dyan Moon, and Rose Moon. Other English names are Flower Moon and Planting Moon. Other sources quote Mead Moon as the Anglo-Saxon name because this was the time for mowing the meads, or meadows.

Close to Summer Solstice

Around every 20 years, the Strawberry Moon coincides with the summer solstice, which is either on June 20, 21, or 22.

12 Full Moon Names

The Full Moon has been integral to tracking the change of months and seasons since ancient times.

Today, we use many of these ancient month names as Full Moon names, and many of them come from the Colonial Americans adopting Native American names into their calendars.

Although the most commonly used Full Moon names are English interpretations of Native American names, some are also Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, medieval English, and Neo-Pagan.

When are the Full Moons this year?

The European Wild Strawberry (Fragaria Vesca) is also called Alpine Strawberry.

©iStockphoto.com/dabjola

Wild Strawberries

There are several different kinds of wild strawberries. The native North American type is the Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), also known as Mountain strawberry or Common strawberry. It grows naturally in the United States, including Alaska, and Canada.

Europe has its own native wild strawberry; the Alpine strawberry (Fragaria vesca), also called European strawberry, Woodland strawberry, or fraisier des bois.

Sleep, crime, and menstruation: how Full Moons affect humans

Topics: Moon, June, Calendar, History, Seasons, Months, Full Moon Names

June 2023

SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT
				1 Waxing gibbous 92.4% 13 days	2 Waxing gibbous 97.2% 14 days	3 Full Moon 11:43 P.M. 15 days
4 Waning gibbous 99.6% 16 days	5 Waning gibbous 96.8% 17 days	6 Waning gibbous 91.3% 18 days	7 Waning gibbous 83.5% 19 days	8 Waning gibbous 73.9% 20 days	9 Waning gibbous 63.1% 21 days	10 Last Quarter 3:32 P.M. 22 days
11 Waning crescent 40.6% 23 days	12 Waning crescent 30.0% 24 days	13 Waning crescent 20.6% 25 days	14 Waning crescent 12.6% 26 days	15 Waning crescent 6.5% 27 days	16 Waning crescent 2.3% 28 days	17 Waning crescent 0.3% 29 days
18 New Moon 12:39 A.M. 0 days	19 Waxing crescent 2.2% 1 day	20 Waxing crescent 5.9% 2 days	21 Waxing crescent 11.2% 3 days	22 Waxing crescent 17.8% 4 days	23 Waxing crescent 25.6% 5 days	24 Waxing crescent 34.3% 6 days
25 Waxing crescent 43.6% 7 days	26 First Quarter 3:51 A.M. 8 days	27 Waxing gibbous 63.2% 9 days	28 Waxing gibbous 72.8% 10 days	29 Waxing gibbous 81.7% 11 days	30 Waxing gibbous 89.4% 12 days

All times in Eastern time.

When's the Full Moon in June of 2023?

What is the Full Moon schedule for 2023?

What was the Moon phase June 3 2022?

Does 2023 have blue moon?