It is not actually strawberry-coloured and in many places, it is no longer strawberry season.
The Strawberry Moon is the name traditionally given to June's full Moon — the first full Moon of summer, rising opposite the Sun just days after the solstice, when the horizon glows long into the summer evenings.
This year it will peak at 01:57 CEST on Tuesday morning, but for most of Europe it will be visible starting this evening: around 9:41 pm in London, 22:13 in Paris, 21:55 in Berlin and Madrid.
The name traces back to Algonquian and other Native American peoples, who used June's full Moon as a seasonal marker for the wild strawberry harvest. The Old Farmer's Almanac picked it up and the name stuck.
It has had many other names: the Cherokee called it the "Green Corn Moon," the Cree the "Moon When Leaves Come Out," and the Tlingit of the Pacific Northwest the "Birth Moon," for the animals born in the region each June. In China it is called the "Lotus Moon".
