The full moon is a great time to hike Kilimanjaro. Why? Well the weather conditions tend to be better around those dates and so on a full moon night we’ll often find that we hardly use our head lamps as it is so bright! Great fun for sure. Be warned though, since we pioneered full moon trips back in the 90’s they have become popular with other operators – expect relatively busy trails at those times. You can also start a little earlier or later or ask us (and our travel partners, they have the info we do) about great times to climb that are more ‘off peak’ and still fabulous hiking.
Full Moon Dates Kilimanjaro
I’ve correlated a bunch of different sites (see links below) that have been compiled to give us the correct full moon dates for Kilimanjaro. BEWARE many sites don’t have the correct info simply because they have allowed for the correct time zone. So:
| MONTH | DAY | TIME | NOTES |
| January | 27 | 7:40 am | |
| February | 25 | 11.29pm | |
| March | 27 | 12.30pm | |
| April | 25 | 0.00am | Lunar Eclipse! |
| May | 25 | 07.28am | Lunar Eclipse! |
| June | 23 | 2.34pm | |
| July | 22 | 9.17pm | |
| August | 21 | 4.46am | |
| September | 19 | 2.14pm | |
| October | 19 | 2.38am | Lunar Eclipse! |
| November | 17 | 6.17pm | |
| December | 17 | 12.30am |
Great links for more data on phases of the moon, full moon try:
- A calculator: http://members.shaw.ca/rlmcnish/darksky/
- Seems to correlate with the government and other sites, cool because you can select your time zone! http://www.moontracks.com/fullmoonnames.html
- For data by the specific time zone you are in try: http://www.lunarium.co.uk/calendar/universal.jsp?calendarYear=2013&calendarMonth=0
- http://aa.usno.navy.mil/search.php?q=AA&cx=002940263540317832718:uhwwol5lyzc&cof=FORID:11
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