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The Full Moon rises at roughly the same time as the sun sets.Like every other astronomical body, the moon ... at whatever phase ...rises from the eastern horizon.
Each night the moon rise changes, So.... If you go to timeanddate.com, you can select a location in the drop-down menu and see times for moonrise and moonset in that location. Also provided is local time when the Moon passes the meridian with distance, fraction of the Moon illuminated and moon phase.
The next Full Moon will be at 4:01 AM UCT on May 9, 2009. (Subtract 4 hours to get EDT, or subtract 7 hours to get PDT.) The time of moonrise on that day will be dependent on your location. Go to http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php to calculate the time of moonrise and sunrise on that day.
The position of the full moon at sunset can vary depending on its phase and location in the sky. However, in general, the full moon rises in the east as the sun sets in the west, so you are likely to see the full moon rising around the time of sunset in the opposite direction.
There is no phase of the Moon that does exactly that every time, but approximately it is first-quarter, which is a half moon with the bright side to the west.To rise at noon and set at midnight the Moon has to be around zero degrees declination (i.e. on the equator) and on the ecliptic 90 degrees behind the Sun. That happens around the summer solstice, June 21, or the winter solstice, December 21.