When is the next eclipse in Darwin?
Friday, 7 July 2028: a partial lunar eclipse
The partial eclipse runs from 2:39 am to 5:00 am local time, and the Moon is up for all of it. All eclipses to 2035 ↓
- Begins
- 10:59 am
- Maximum
- 12:32 pm
- Ends
- 2:03 pm
- Sun height
- 57°
- Partial begins
- 2:39 am
- Maximum
- 3:49 am
- Partial ends
- 5:00 am
- Moon height
- 46° at maximum
Totality within reach of Darwin
total eclipses to 2050 whose path passes within 1,500 km| 22 Jul 2028 | Path 410 km to the southwest (260 miles) · 88% covered at home |
| 13 Jul 2037 | Path 1,280 km to the south (790 miles) · 64% covered at home |
Distance to the nearest edge of the path (NASA path tables). Inside the path, the closer to its centre line, the longer totality lasts.
Every eclipse visible from Darwin to 2035
17 eclipses| Date | Eclipse | Local time | From here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jul 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 1:27 am – 1:38 am | Whole eclipse |
| 7 Jul 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse | 2:39 am – 5:00 am | Whole eclipse |
| 22 Jul 2028 | Partial solar eclipse | 10:59 am – 2:03 pm | 88% covered |
| 1 Jan 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 1:46 am – 2:57 am | Whole eclipse |
| 16 Jun 2030 | Partial lunar eclipse | 2:51 am – 5:15 am | Whole eclipse |
| 25 Nov 2030 | Partial solar eclipse | 5:17 pm – 6:51 pm | 29% covered |
| 10 Dec 2030 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 5:38 am – 10:17 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 21 May 2031 | Partial solar eclipse | 5:27 pm – sunset | 59% covered |
| 5 Jun 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 8:26 pm – 10:01 pm | Whole eclipse |
| 30 Oct 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 3:19 pm – 7:11 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 26 Apr 2032 | Total lunar eclipse | 12:10 am – 1:16 am | Whole eclipse |
| 19 Oct 2032 | Total lunar eclipse | 4:08 am – 4:56 am | Totality visible |
| 15 Apr 2033 | Total lunar eclipse | 4:18 am – 5:07 am | Totality visible |
| 8 Oct 2033 | Total lunar eclipse | 7:45 pm – 9:04 pm | Totality visible |
| 4 Apr 2034 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 2:23 am – 6:48 am | Whole eclipse |
| 22 Feb 2035 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 4:27 pm – 8:42 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 10 Mar 2035 | Partial solar eclipse | sunrise – 7:03 am | 1.0% covered |
Local times (ACST or daylight time as it applies on the day). Solar: from first to last contact while the Sun is up. Lunar: the main phase (totality, or the partial phase), whatever the Moon's height; penumbral eclipses are faint.
Eclipses from Darwin, in short
From now to the end of 2035, Darwin can see 4 solar eclipses (all of them partial unless marked otherwise) and 7 partial or total lunar eclipses. No total solar eclipse passes over Darwin before 2100; to see one you will have to travel. A total solar eclipse only darkens a strip a few hundred kilometres wide, so any one place sees one every few hundred years on average, while a lunar eclipse is visible from half the planet at once.
Weather is not included: these are clear-sky predictions. A partial solar eclipse must only be watched through proper eclipse glasses or a projector; see our eye safety guide.
Questions
When is the next solar eclipse in Darwin?
Saturday, 22 July 2028: a partial eclipse from 10:59 am to 2:03 pm local time, covering 88% of the Sun at its peak.
When is the next lunar eclipse in Darwin?
Friday, 7 July 2028: a partial lunar eclipse, maximum at 3:49 am local time.
When is the next total solar eclipse in Darwin?
None in the city itself before 2100. The closest coming path of totality passes about 410 km away on 22 July 2028.
Nearby cities
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).