When is the next eclipse?
The annular solar eclipse of February 6, 2027
In 93 days. The ring of fire crosses Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Benin and Togo. The next total solar eclipse is on August 2, 2027, across Morocco, Spain, Gibraltar, Algeria and Tunisia. Map and times →
Every eclipse, 2026 to 2030
Solar above the line, lunar belowSolar eclipses
Lunar eclipses
The big ones for North America
Alaska 2033, US and Canada 2044 and 2045How we compute it
The eclipse geometry comes from NASA: Fred Espenak's Besselian elements, path tables and lunar contact times from the Five Millennium Canon. From those we compute, for 7,000 cities, when the Moon starts to cover the Sun, how much of it is covered, how long totality lasts and how high the Sun is. For lunar eclipses, we compute where the Moon is above the horizon at each phase. A sample of results matches NASA's own calculator to a tenth of a second.
Questions
When is the next solar eclipse?
The annular solar eclipse of February 6, 2027, with the path crossing Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Benin and Togo.
When is the next total solar eclipse?
August 2, 2027: totality crosses Morocco, Spain, Gibraltar, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia, lasting up to 6 min 23 s. After that: Jul 22, 2028, Nov 25, 2030, Mar 30, 2033, Aug 23, 2044, Aug 12, 2045.
When is the next lunar eclipse?
The partial lunar eclipse of January 12, 2028 (UT), visible from all of North America and South America, most of Europe and parts of Africa. Fainter penumbral eclipses come first.
When is the next total solar eclipse in the United States?
March 30, 2033 (Alaska); August 23, 2044; August 12, 2045. The 2044 and 2045 eclipses are the next ones in the contiguous US; open a city page for distances to the path.
How often do eclipses happen?
Every year has at least four eclipses (two solar, two lunar) and at most seven. A total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth about every 18 months, but any one place sees one only every few hundred years on average. A total lunar eclipse is seen by everyone on the night side of Earth, so they are much more common to see.
What is the difference between a total, annular and partial solar eclipse?
In a total eclipse the Moon covers the whole Sun and the sky goes dark. When the Moon is farther from Earth it looks smaller and leaves a bright ring: an annular eclipse. Outside those narrow paths, and in some eclipses everywhere, the Moon covers only part of the Sun: a partial eclipse.
Eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC: NASA Eclipse Web Site, Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses and Catalog of Lunar Eclipses (Espenak & Meeus): Besselian elements, path of totality tables and lunar contact times. City times are computed by us from those Besselian elements with the standard method (Meeus, Elements of Solar Eclipses), using a current estimate of ΔT (Earth-rotation correction) instead of the Canon's older extrapolation; they agree with NASA's own calculator to 0.1 s and with an independent Skyfield/JPL DE440 computation to within 15 s. Times are for sea level and ignore the lunar limb profile (a few seconds near the path edges). City coordinates: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).