Moon Phase Today Port St. Lucie

Moon Phase Today Port St. Lucie: New Moon

On Friday, October 9, 2026, the moon in Port St. Lucie is a New Moon with 0% illumination. Moon age: 28.9 days.

Illumination
0%
Moon Age
28.9d
Next Full Moon
Oct 26
Distance
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☽ Moonrise
6:22 AM
↑ Highest
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☾ Moonset
6:25 PM

moonrise-Port St. Lucie, Florida

☽ Best Places to View the Moon in Port St. Lucie, Florida

Port St. Lucie sits at roughly 27.26°N on Florida's Treasure Coast, with around 268,000 residents. The city was incorporated in 1961 after General Development Corporation began developing a 66-square-mile tract along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River, primarily into single-family lots. That planned-community origin still shows in how green the city looks today, and in just how much of its land is given over to canals, lakes, and golf courses. Between a protected river preserve, a riverside park that never closes, and the city's deep golf-course culture, there's a genuinely relaxed set of places to watch the moon here.

1

Savannas Preserve State Park

A protected marsh and sand-pine scrub system covering more than 6,000 acres along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River. It's the only place on Earth where the endangered Savannas mint now grows — its sole wild population, discovered here in 1995, was later lost to development, but conservationists have since re-established it within the park itself. The park is open 8am to sunset year-round, so it suits an early-evening visit rather than a late one.

2

Veterans Memorial Park & Riverwalk

A pentagon-shaped park along the St. Lucie River, with memorials to the branches of the military and the country's wars, including a Gold Star Families monument and an Iraq and Afghanistan War memorial. Veterans Memorial Park is open 24 hours with a lighted visitation area, while the nearby Riverwalk provides a lighted waterfront walking route along the North Fork — genuinely late-night options in a city where most parks close at sunset.

3

St. Lucie River, North Fork

The river that shaped the city's original development and is designated an Aquatic Preserve. Public riverfront access points exist at several locations around the city, giving an open, low-horizon view over the water.

4

PGA Village & the City's Golf Courses

Port St. Lucie has built much of its identity, and a great deal of its landscaping, around golf, with numerous courses including the well-known PGA Village complex. Many course grounds and surrounding open fairways give a wide, unobstructed sky, though access outside of play is limited to what individual courses and clubs allow.

5

Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens

A nonprofit-operated 21-acre botanical garden along the North Fork, with themed gardens, a lake, and paved paths. It's primarily a daytime stop rather than a late-night moon-viewing location — check current hours before visiting.

6

Clover Park (Tradition Field)

The spring training home of the New York Mets and their Florida State League affiliate, hosting evening games through the season. It's an easy, sociable option for combining an evening out with a view of the sky above the stadium lights, if not a dedicated astronomy spot.

◉ Best Times for Moon Photography

🌕 Full Moon ±1 day — the St. Lucie River and Veterans Memorial Park's riverwalk both give an open sightline over water
❄ Dec–Feb — the driest, most comfortable stretch of the year in this part of Florida, with mild evenings
🌙 Mar–May & Oct–Nov — comfortable evenings for a walk along the riverwalk or an early visit to Savannas Preserve
☀ Jun–Sep — hot, humid evenings, with a summer thunderstorm season and hurricane risk from June through November
🥶 Winters are generally mild, with freezing temperatures rare but not impossible on the coldest nights

📷 Quick Photography Tips

🎯A tripod helps at open river access points, more exposed to wind than the streets of residential neighbourhoods
🌾Savannas Preserve's marsh and scrub landscape gives a wide, low horizon best caught in the early evening, before the park closes at sunset
🎖️Veterans Memorial Park's lighted memorials give a quiet, respectful foreground for a moonrise shot that's actually accessible late at night
🔋Humidity can affect lenses in summer — carry a cloth and let gear acclimate before shooting if you've come from an air-conditioned space
🕐 Timezone

Port St. Lucie runs on Eastern Time (UTC-5, or UTC-4 during Daylight Saving Time). Clocks move forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November.

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Enjoy the moon over Port St. Lucie — a planned river city built around golf courses and canals, with the only place on Earth an endangered mint still grows just past its edge.

The moon phase today in Port St. Lucie, Florida is shown in detail above — complete with exact illumination percentage, moonrise/set times, and the best viewpoints to see it. For the moon phase today in any other city or location worldwide, visit our Dynamic Moon Phase Calculator on the home page.

◐ While Actually There

Port St. Lucie's story is unusually recent and unusually deliberate. General Development Corporation platted a 66-square-mile tract along the St. Lucie River starting in the early 1960s, and the city that grew out of it was designed around canals and lakes rather than organized around any older town centre. That planned-community DNA still shows in how green the city looks from above, and in just how much of its land is given over to golf courses.

Savannas Preserve is the other half of the story — and it holds a small, remarkable secret. In 1995, biologists found a rare mint clinging on between a railroad line and a housing development, right there in the park. Within twenty years the wild population had dwindled to about six plants and was ultimately lost when the last site was developed, but conservationists had already collected its seeds, and Savannas mint now survives only in populations reestablished inside the preserve itself — nowhere else on the planet, and it very nearly stayed that way for good.

None of it asks much of you beyond checking Savannas Preserve's daytime hours. Veterans Memorial Park stays open around the clock, and the river itself has public access points around the city for an easy, unplanned evening.

"Port St. Lucie was built from scratch around canals and golf courses — and right at its edge sits a mint that nearly went extinct before conservationists gave it a second home inside the same park."

✓ Your Port St. Lucie Moon Chase Checklist

Before You Go

  • Check the moonrise time and phase on this page for each night of your stay
  • Check current hours for Savannas Preserve State Park (8am–sunset) before planning your visit
  • Check current opening hours for Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens if you want to combine it with your visit
  • Check the Clover Park schedule if you want to combine an evening game with your visit
  • Check the forecast for tropical storm or hurricane activity if visiting between June and November

What to Bring

  • A light layer for winter evenings — generally mild, with freezing temperatures rare
  • A tripod, useful at open river access points
  • Insect repellent, especially near the river and marsh areas of Savannas Preserve
  • A light rain layer, since summer afternoon thunderstorms are common
  • Spare camera batteries and a lens cloth for humid summer evenings

On the Night

  • Arrive 20–30 minutes before moonrise at Veterans Memorial Park or a public river access point
  • Shoot RAW and bracket exposures, especially where the memorial park's lighting mixes with moonlight
  • Stick to the lighted, maintained areas of Veterans Memorial Park after dark
  • Confirm current access at Savannas Preserve rather than assuming late-evening entry
  • Watch for sudden summer thunderstorms and tropical weather updates if visiting in hurricane season
Savannas Preserve State Park closes at sunset every day; Veterans Memorial Park, by contrast, stays open 24 hours with a lighted visitation area — plan a late-evening visit around the latter.
The moon over Port St. Lucie shares the sky with a plant that exists nowhere else after nearly vanishing entirely, a riverside memorial park that never closes, and a city built almost entirely around water and golf. Use the phase calendar on this page, check park hours before you go, and take the riverwalk if you want a spot open past sunset.

? Port St. Lucie Moon Phase — Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is the moon phase today in Port St. Lucie?

The moon phase today in Port St. Lucie is a New Moon with 0% illumination. The next full moon is in 17 days, on Oct 26. Moonrise is at 6:22 AM and moonset at 6:25 PM.

Q. Where is the best place to view the moon in Port St. Lucie?

Veterans Memorial Park and Riverwalk, along the St. Lucie River, is the best late-evening option: the park is open 24 hours with a lighted visitation area, and the nearby Riverwalk gives a lighted waterfront route along the North Fork. Public riverfront access points around the city give an open, low-horizon view over the water. Savannas Preserve State Park, more than 6,000 acres of marsh and scrub, gives a wide, low horizon but is open only from 8am to sunset. Many golf courses, including PGA Village, have open fairways and wide sky, but access outside play is limited to what each course allows. The Botanical Gardens are a daytime stop, and Clover Park is a sociable evening option under the stadium lights.

Q. Where does the moon rise and set in Port St. Lucie, and how high does it climb?

At about 27.3°N, Port St. Lucie's moonrise and moonset points stay close to east and west, swinging from roughly east-northeast to east-southeast for rising and west-northwest to west-southwest for setting, a narrower swing than in northern states. A winter full moon passes within roughly 10° of the zenith, almost directly overhead, while a summer full moon peaks in the south at roughly 40° above the horizon. Florida's flat terrain gives a low horizon in every direction, with the Atlantic lying to the east, so a rising moon comes up over the marsh, river and coastal lands. Savannas Preserve closes at sunset, so a waxing gibbous, already up in the east before sunset, suits it better than a full moon, which rises about sunset. Check the azimuth for your date and exact spot.

Q. Is light pollution a problem for moon observing in Port St. Lucie?

The moon is bright enough to observe and photograph from almost anywhere in Port St. Lucie, so light pollution rarely limits the lunar disc itself. It does wash out earthshine on a thin crescent and any faint sky detail. The lighted Veterans Memorial Park, the Riverwalk and the residential neighbourhoods carry artificial lighting, so the city is a light-polluted site rather than a dark-sky one. Savannas Preserve and the open golf courses give wider, more open sky, but not darker sky, and the preserve closes at sunset.

Q. What camera settings and phases work best for moon photography in Port St. Lucie?

For a full moon, start with Looney 11 (f/11, ISO 100, 1/100 s) and refine using your histogram, since it is a baseline rather than a guarantee. The moon is much brighter than the lighted memorials and riverfront, so shoot RAW and bracket or blend exposures to keep both crater detail and the lit foreground. A waxing gibbous suits an early-evening visit to Savannas Preserve before it closes, and a full moon rises around sunset over the river. A 200–400 mm lens helps isolate the moon against the memorials or the marsh treeline, with a tripod for bracketing and manual focus on the moon using magnified live view.

Q. How do summer storms, humidity and insects affect moon viewing in Port St. Lucie?

Port St. Lucie has hot, humid summers with a thunderstorm season, and hurricane risk from June through November, so conditions can change quickly and tropical weather updates are worth watching. Humidity leaves condensation on lenses, particularly if your gear comes from an air-conditioned space, so let it acclimate and carry a cloth. December to February is the driest, most comfortable stretch, with mild evenings and freezing temperatures rare. Bring insect repellent near the river and the marsh areas of Savannas Preserve.

Q. Can I shoot the moon at Port St. Lucie's viewpoints after dark?

Access varies by site. Savannas Preserve State Park is open 8am to sunset year-round, so confirm access rather than assuming late-evening entry. Veterans Memorial Park is open 24 hours with a lighted visitation area, and the Riverwalk is a lighted waterfront route, so stick to the lighted, maintained areas after dark. Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens keep daytime hours, and golf courses allow access outside play only as each club permits. Check the Clover Park schedule if you want to combine an evening game with your visit.

Q. Does this page work for cities besides Port St. Lucie?

This page is set up specifically for Port St. Lucie, Florida. For the moon phase in any other city or location worldwide, use the Dynamic Moon Phase Calculator on the moonphase.today home page.