March 2027 Moon Phases

March 2027 is the month winter hands off to spring. There’s no eclipse or major meteor shower on the calendar this time — the February 20–21 penumbral lunar eclipse is already behind us, and the next eclipse doesn’t come until July, when the Moon only barely grazes Earth’s outer shadow in what’s sometimes classified as an “almost” eclipse rather than a true penumbral one. But the month still has plenty going on: daylight saving time begins, the spring equinox arrives, and the Full Worm Moon lands just after it, coinciding with the ecclesiastical Paschal Moon used to calculate this year’s Easter date. Here’s what’s happening and when.

Daylight saving time reshapes your evening sky

Clocks in the United States and most of Canada spring forward an hour at 2:00 AM on March 14, 2027. Nothing changes astronomically — the Moon and Sun don’t move any differently — but for areas that observe the change, moonrise, moonset, and sunset will suddenly read an hour later on the clock. Practically, that means less usable darkness right after dinner for a while, even as the days keep genuinely lengthening toward the equinox.

The spring equinox arrives March 20

The equinox happens when the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving north, marking the astronomical start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. In 2027 that moment falls at 4:24 PM EDT on March 20, with day and night close to equal length worldwide. From here through the June solstice, Northern Hemisphere days keep getting longer and nights shorter.

The Full Worm Moon on March 22 coincides with the Paschal Moon

March’s Full Moon is widely known as the Worm Moon. The popular explanation ties the name to earthworms reappearing as the soil thaws, but some historical research traces it instead to an 18th-century account describing beetle larvae emerging from thawing tree bark — the exact origin isn’t settled. Other traditional names associated with this Full Moon in various traditions include the Crow Moon, Sap Moon, Sugar Moon, Crust Moon, Chaste Moon, and Lenten Moon.

Because this Full Moon falls on or after March 21, it coincides with the Paschal Moon — the ecclesiastical reference date, set by the Church’s own tabular rules rather than a direct astronomical measurement, that’s used to calculate the date of Easter, which falls on the first Sunday after it. That places Easter 2027 on March 28. In most years the ecclesiastical tables and the precise astronomical Full Moon line up