Rhode Island Solunar Calendar — August 2026

The August 2026 solunar calendar for Rhode Island covers every day of the month, with the major and minor deer movement windows, moon phase, and a fused 0–100 hunt score computed for the state's geographic center (41.68°N, 71.51°W, Eastern Time). The month moves through the Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent, New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous and Full Moon phases, and the table below shows when each window opens and closes for that location. Whitetail rut peak in Rhode Island is early November, so the days closest to that window are the ones to flag early. Archery is open mid-September – late January, firearm early December – mid-December for hunters in the field. New England cover is fragmented mixed hardwoods, coastal scrub, and suburban-edge habitat, which shifts the value of a strong major window — wind in big timber moves scent differently than wind across open ag, and the solunar overlay is most useful when read against that terrain context.