BBC Weather<\/a> shares that on the evening of Wednesday, April 1, the moon will rise low on the horizon and is far more likely to look orange than pink.\n<\/p>\n\n This is because the sunlight it reflects reaches us through a denser part of the Earth’s atmosphere, which scatters blue and violet light, and means only the redder hues reach us.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Pink Moon will be at its peak at 3.12am on Thursday, April 2.\n<\/p>\n
\n At the time of writing, Wednesday night’s forecast is likely to have cloud and rain in England and Wales, making the moon more difficult to see.\n<\/p>\n
\n The best chances of clear spells will be in the colder air for Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n<\/p>\n
\n There are usually 12 full moons a year, occurring every 29.5 days\u2014the length of time it takes for the moon to orbit the Earth and complete one lunar phase cycle.\n<\/p>\n
\n After the Pink Moon, the next full moon will be the Flower Moon in May.\n<\/p>\n
What role does April’s Pink Moon have in setting the dates for Easter and Passover?<\/p>\n
\n Easter’s date is determined by the timing of key astronomical events, as it always falls on the first Sunday after the first full Moon that follows the spring equinox.\n<\/p>\n
\n BBC Weather explains: “The date of the astronomical equinox also tends to naturally fluctuate between 20 and 21 March.\n<\/p>\n
\n “In 2026, it happens on 20 March.\n<\/p>\n
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\n “However, the Christian church decided to ‘set a fixed’ date for it to help regularise its own calculations and always used 21 March.”\n<\/p>\n
\n As the first full Moon after March 21 is the Pink Moon on April 2, it means Easter is the following Sunday on April 5.\n<\/p>\n
\n In a year when the full Moon itself rises on a Sunday, Easter will be set for the following one.\n<\/p>\n
\n Will you be going out to view the Pink Moon? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Named by northern Native Americans after a species of early blooming wildflower, the Pink Moon also has an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-505295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}