November 2027 Moon Phases

November 2027 opens with the end of daylight saving time, brings the Full Beaver Moon in mid-month, and closes with the Leonid meteor shower peaking under fairly bright moonlight. There’s no eclipse on the calendar this month. Here’s what’s happening and when.

Daylight saving time ends at the start of the month

Clocks in most of the United States and the Canadian jurisdictions that observe daylight saving time fall back an hour at 2:00 AM on November 7, 2027, returning to standard time. A few Canadian regions, including most of Saskatchewan and parts of Yukon and British Columbia, don’t make the switch. For everywhere else, nothing changes astronomically — sunrise, sunset, and moonrise all still happen exactly when they would have — but every one of those events will suddenly read an hour earlier on the clock. That means darker mornings and earlier sunsets for a while, even though the days themselves keep shortening at the same steady pace toward the December solstice.

The Leonids peak under a bright Moon this year

The Leonid meteor shower is active from early November through early December, with a peak overnight on November 17–18. It’s produced by debris from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, and in most years delivers a modest 10 to 15 meteors an hour under dark skies. It’s historically famous for spectacular meteor storms roughly every 33 years, tied to the comet’s return — the 1966 storm briefly produced thousands of meteors a minute, and the 1833 storm is estimated to have reached tens of thousands of meteors an hour or more. No storm is expected in 2027.

This year’s timing is less favorable than it could be: the Moon will still be a bright waning gibbous, roughly 78% illuminated, on peak night, which will wash out all but the brighter meteors. The Leonids’ radiant, in the constellation Leo, rises around midnight and climbs highest just before dawn, so your best odds are in those pre-dawn hours, ideally with the Moon blocked by a tree, hill, or building. The shower is visible from both hemispheres, though northern latitudes generally get better conditions. Leonid meteors are known for being fast — among the fastest of any shower — and for occasionally leaving glowing trains behind them. For the timing of other showers throughout the year, see our meteor shower calendar.

Why it’s called the Beaver Moon

November’s Full Moon is widely known as the Beaver Moon, a name traditionally associated with the time of year when beavers finish building their winter dams and lodges, and when trappers historically set beaver traps before the waters froze over for the season. The name is commonly associated with Algonquin traditions, though moon-naming customs varied across different communities rather than following one single standardized system.