The July full moon shone brightly over Greece's 2,500-year-old Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion late Thursday. (AP video: Srdjan Nedeljkovic)

The July full moon 2025, also known as the Buck Moon, will rise on July 10, offering a spectacular lunar show for skywatchers worldwide.The moon will reach full illumination at 4:37 p.m. EDT (2037 GMT),

The full buck moon will reach its peak illumination on Thursday, July 10. It’s just one of this month’s celestial highlights.

This year, the Buck Moon follows Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun, by just a few days, according to Space.com. That makes it the full moon farthest from the Sun in 2025, a result of orbital geometry rather than distance from Earth.

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According to RMG, in the UK you'll be able to see this year's Buck Moon on July 10 at 9.37pm. Similar to last month's strawberry moon, which was the lowest-lying full moon in more than 18 years, July's Buck Moon will also sit unusually low in the sky.

Skywatchers may have a harder time spotting July's full moon in Iowa. The evening of Wednesday, July 9, is expected to have 50-80% cloud cover across the state with some thunderstorms possible starting in western Iowa around 10 p.m. and moving across the state through the night, according to the National Weather Service.

Some plants can photosynthesise using nightglow, traditionally comprising moonlight, starlight and the light reflected from planets. Increasingly, artificial light at night, known as light pollution, contributes to this background illumination.