Planting by the Moon in July 2027 runs from a new moon on July 3 at 11:02 p.m. ET to a full Buck Moon on July 18 at 11:44 a.m. ET, with a last quarter on July 26. According to almanac tradition, those phases and the Moon’s zodiac sign sort the month into windows for leafy, fruiting and root crops. Every time below is Eastern, and every rule is a tradition, not a proven effect.
July 2027 at a glance
The month opens with a waning Moon in Gemini, 9% lit at noon ET on July 1, then passes through the new moon on July 3 and reaches first quarter on July 10. The full moon is the Buck Moon on July 18 at 11:44 a.m. ET, in Capricorn. According to almanac tradition, the planting windows for the month are these:
- Leafy crops (first quarter): July 4 (Moon in Cancer), July 9-10 (Moon in Libra)
- Fruiting crops (second quarter): July 11-13 (Moon in Scorpio), July 16-17 (Moon in Capricorn)
- Root crops, bulbs, perennials (third quarter): July 18 (Moon in Capricorn), July 21-23 (Moon in Pisces), July 26 (Moon in Taurus)
These windows come from almanac tradition, not from a measured effect of the Moon on plants. Your local frost calendar and soil conditions decide whether a crop can go in the ground at all. The Moon, for gardeners who follow it, only picks among the days the local calendar already allows.
The last quarter of the month, which this tradition reserves for rest tasks such as weeding, pruning, turning the soil and composting, shows up at noon on July 1 to 3 and again on July 27 to 31. The month ends with the Moon waning in Cancer, 5% lit on July 31. If you plan across several months, planting by the moon 2027 lays out the whole year, and the sections below break July down by phase, sign and day.
What to plant in July
The almanac sorts crops into three groups, and each group follows its own quarter of the Moon. Which of them can actually be planted in July depends on the state you garden in, and sometimes on the county. Your state planting calendar is the place to check, because this page gives no planting dates or soil temperatures. For the method behind the groups, start with planting by the moon.
- Leafy crops (first quarter, above ground): lettuce, spinach, cabbage, broccoli and celery.
- Fruiting crops (second quarter, seed inside the fruit): tomatoes, peppers, beans, squash and corn. Gardeners who plant by the Moon file when to plant cucumbers by the moon in this group too.
- Root crops, bulbs and perennials (third quarter): potatoes, garlic and onions, along with when to plant carrots by the moon and when to plant beets by the moon.
Those crop lists are the almanac’s own sorting, and they say nothing about which crops suit a given state in July. A gardener in a short-season northern state and one in a long-season southern state will read their state guides very differently, and the Moon windows below apply only after that check.
Each crop page above applies the same Moon rules to a single crop, so you can read the quarter and sign together for the one you care about.
Moon phases in July 2027
| Phase | Date and time (ET) |
|---|---|
| New Moon | July 3, 11:02 p.m. ET |
| First Quarter | July 10, 2:39 p.m. ET |
| Full Moon | July 18, 11:44 a.m. ET |
| Last Quarter | July 26, 12:54 p.m. ET |
July’s full moon is the Buck Moon in Old Farmer’s Almanac usage. It falls on July 18 at 11:44 a.m. ET, with the Moon in Capricorn, a sign this convention labels semi-fruitful. In the almanac scheme the full moon is also the dividing line between the second quarter, tied to fruiting crops, and the third quarter, tied to root crops, so it marks a change in the planting rule as well as a date on the sky chart. The Moon leaves Capricorn for Aquarius at 8:15 p.m. ET the same day.
Traditional planting days in July 2027
The almanac rule is simple. Each quarter of the Moon is tied to a crop type, and a day counts as a traditional planting day only when the Moon is in a sign the convention labels fruitful or semi-fruitful. In this convention, fruitful signs are Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces, and semi-fruitful signs are Taurus, Libra and Capricorn.
| Crop type | Quarter | Traditional days | Moon sign |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leafy crops | First quarter | July 4 | Cancer |
| July 9-10 | Libra | ||
| Fruiting crops | Second quarter | July 11-13 | Scorpio |
| July 16-17 | Capricorn | ||
| Root crops, bulbs, perennials | Third quarter | July 18 | Capricorn |
| July 21-23 | Pisces | ||
| July 26 | Taurus |
Each day here is read at noon ET, and the Moon changes sign during the day, so the first or last day of a window can be only partly inside it. The sign change times are in the next section. A few examples show how this plays out. On July 18 the third-quarter window for root crops begins with the full moon at 11:44 a.m. ET and ends when the Moon enters Aquarius at 8:15 p.m. ET. On July 26 the Moon enters Taurus at 6:27 a.m. ET and the last quarter arrives at 12:54 p.m. ET, so that window is a morning one. The Pisces window starts on the morning of July 21 at 9:14 a.m. ET and runs to the evening of July 23 at 9:09 p.m. ET.
On the leafy side, the July 9-10 window in Libra begins with the Moon’s entry at 6:23 a.m. ET on July 9 and closes at the first quarter, 2:39 p.m. ET on July 10. The fruiting window in Scorpio opens at 11:54 a.m. ET on July 11 and ends at 8:32 p.m. ET on July 13, when the Moon enters Sagittarius.
Types with no window
Every crop type has at least one window in July 2027, so there is no type marked “none this month.” The rest quarter is different. The tradition assigns no planting to it at all, only weeding, pruning, turning the soil and composting.
Moon sign changes in July 2027
The Moon spends roughly two days in each sign, and the 14 changes below set the edges of every window above. The third column gives the convention’s fruitful, semi-fruitful or barren label. The fourth gives the biodynamic day type in the Maria Thun scheme. Sources differ on Virgo, Sagittarius and Aquarius, so treat those three labels as the most debated ones.
| Date and time (ET) | Moon enters | Convention label | Biodynamic day type |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2:55 a.m. | Gemini | Barren | Flower |
| July 3, 3:58 a.m. | Cancer | Fruitful | Leaf |
| July 5, 3:40 a.m. | Leo | Barren | Fruit |
| July 7, 3:56 a.m. | Virgo | Barren | Root |
| July 9, 6:23 a.m. | Libra | Semi-fruitful | Flower |
| July 11, 11:54 a.m. | Scorpio | Fruitful | Leaf |
| July 13, 8:32 p.m. | Sagittarius | Barren | Fruit |
| July 16, 7:39 a.m. | Capricorn | Semi-fruitful | Root |
| July 18, 8:15 p.m. | Aquarius | Barren | Flower |
| July 21, 9:14 a.m. | Pisces | Fruitful | Leaf |
| July 23, 9:09 p.m. | Aries | Barren | Fruit |
| July 26, 6:27 a.m. | Taurus | Semi-fruitful | Root |
| July 28, 12:10 p.m. | Gemini | Barren | Flower |
| July 30, 2:24 p.m. | Cancer | Fruitful | Leaf |
The traditional windows in this convention use only the fruitful and semi-fruitful labels. The biodynamic column is a separate system, which sorts days into root, flower, leaf and fruit by sign alone, without looking at the phase. Gardeners who follow the biodynamic calendar read that column on its own terms, and the two systems do not always point to the same day.
Day by day: phase and Moon sign
Each row gives the Moon’s sign, its quarter, the percent of the disk lit and whether it is waxing or waning, all read at noon ET. Because the phases themselves fall at other times of day, the quarter shown at noon can lag a phase by hours. The new moon at 11:02 p.m. ET on July 3 is a good example, since July 3 still shows quarter 4 at noon and quarter 1 begins on the July 4 row.
| Date | Moon sign | Quarter | Percent lit | Waxing or waning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1 | Gemini | 4 | 9% | Waning |
| July 2 | Gemini | 4 | 3% | Waning |
| July 3 | Cancer | 4 | 0% | Waning |
| July 4 | Cancer | 1 | 0% | Waxing |
| July 5 | Leo | 1 | 4% | Waxing |
| July 6 | Leo | 1 | 9% | Waxing |
| July 7 | Virgo | 1 | 18% | Waxing |
| July 8 | Virgo | 1 | 27% | Waxing |
| July 9 | Libra | 1 | 38% | Waxing |
| July 10 | Libra | 1 | 49% | Waxing |
| July 11 | Scorpio | 2 | 60% | Waxing |
| July 12 | Scorpio | 2 | 69% | Waxing |
| July 13 | Scorpio | 2 | 78% | Waxing |
| July 14 | Sagittarius | 2 | 86% | Waxing |
| July 15 | Sagittarius | 2 | 92% | Waxing |
| July 16 | Capricorn | 2 | 96% | Waxing |
| July 17 | Capricorn | 2 | 99% | Waxing |
| July 18 | Capricorn | 3 | 100% | Waning |
| July 19 | Aquarius | 3 | 99% | Waning |
| July 20 | Aquarius | 3 | 96% | Waning |
| July 21 | Pisces | 3 | 92% | Waning |
| July 22 | Pisces | 3 | 86% | Waning |
| July 23 | Pisces | 3 | 79% | Waning |
| July 24 | Aries | 3 | 70% | Waning |
| July 25 | Aries | 3 | 61% | Waning |
| July 26 | Taurus | 3 | 51% | Waning |
| July 27 | Taurus | 4 | 40% | Waning |
| July 28 | Taurus | 4 | 29% | Waning |
| July 29 | Gemini | 4 | 20% | Waning |
| July 30 | Gemini | 4 | 11% | Waning |
| July 31 | Cancer | 4 | 5% | Waning |
Read down the percent column and the month’s shape is plain. The Moon is 0% lit on July 3 and July 4, climbs past 49% on July 10, reaches 100% on July 18, and drops back to 51% on July 26. Waxing runs through July 17, and waning begins on the July 18 row.
Questions about July 2027
When is the full moon in July 2027?
The full moon is the Buck Moon, on July 18 at 11:44 a.m. ET, with the Moon in Capricorn.
When is the new moon in July 2027?
The new moon falls on July 3 at 11:02 p.m. ET, with the Moon in Cancer.
Which days are the traditional days for root crops in July 2027?
According to almanac tradition, the root-crop windows are July 18 (Moon in Capricorn), July 21-23 (Moon in Pisces) and July 26 (Moon in Taurus). The first and last of those days are partial, as the sign change times above show.
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