We consider solutions f = f (t, x, v) to the full (spatially inhomogeneous) Boltzmann equation with periodic spatial conditions x ∈ T d , for hard and moderately soft potentials without the angular cutoff assumption, and under the a priori assumption that the main hydrodynamic fields, namely the local mass v f (t, x, v) and local energy v f (t, x, v)|v| 2 and local entropy v f (t, x, v) ln f (t, x, v), are controlled along time. We establish quantitative estimates of propagation in time of "pointwise polynomial moments", i.e. sup x,v f (t, x, v)(1 + |v|) q , q ≥ 0. In the case of hard potentials, we also prove appearance of these moments for all q ≥ 0. In the case of moderately soft potentials we prove the appearance of low-order pointwise moments.