American Language 250

Standard American Almanac

Celestial calendar · 2026

The year overhead

Sky first: the lunar cycle, the four turns of the season, the year’s eclipses, and one clearly named daylight reference point.

Month plate · 2026

January

9 hr 45 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Full Moon
  2. Last Quarter
  3. New Moon
  4. First Quarter

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February

10 hr 47 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Full Moon
  2. Last Quarter
  3. New Moon
  4. Annular solar eclipse

    Southern Argentina and Chile, southern Africa, and Antarctica; annular phase in Antarctica.

  5. First Quarter

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March

11 hr 56 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Total lunar eclipse

    East Asia, Australia, the Pacific, and the Americas.

  2. Full Moon
  3. Last Quarter
  4. New Moon
  5. Spring equinox
  6. First Quarter

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April

13 hr 13 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Full Moon
  2. Last Quarter
  3. New Moon
  4. First Quarter

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May

14 hr 18 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Full Moon
  2. Last Quarter
  3. New Moon
  4. First Quarter
  5. Full Moon

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June

14 hr 53 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Last Quarter
  2. New Moon
  3. Summer solstice
  4. First Quarter
  5. Full Moon

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July

14 hr 38 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Last Quarter
  2. New Moon
  3. First Quarter
  4. Full Moon

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August

13 hr 41 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Last Quarter
  2. New Moon
  3. Total solar eclipse

    Northern North America, western Africa, and Europe; total phase across the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, and Spain.

  4. First Quarter
  5. Partial lunar eclipse

    Eastern Pacific, the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

  6. Full Moon

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September

12 hr 26 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Last Quarter
  2. New Moon
  3. First Quarter
  4. Autumn equinox
  5. Full Moon

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October

11 hr 12 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Last Quarter
  2. New Moon
  3. First Quarter
  4. Full Moon

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November

10 hr 3 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Last Quarter
  2. New Moon
  3. First Quarter
  4. Full Moon

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December

9 hr 27 mindaylight at Washington on the 15th

  1. Last Quarter
  2. New Moon
  3. First Quarter
  4. Winter solstice
  5. Full Moon
  6. Last Quarter