When is the next eclipse in Christchurch?
Friday, 7 July 2028: a partial lunar eclipse
The partial eclipse runs from 5:09 am to 7:30 am local time. All eclipses to 2035 ↓
- Begins
- 3:12 pm
- Maximum
- 4:19 pm
- Ends
- at sunset
- Sun height
- 8°
- Partial begins
- 5:09 am
- Maximum
- 6:19 am
- Partial ends
- 7:30 am
- Moon height
- 18° at maximum
Totality within reach of Christchurch
total eclipses to 2050 whose path passes within 1,500 km| 22 Jul 2028 | Path 230 km to the southwest (140 miles) · 93% covered at home |
| 13 Jul 2037 | Path 500 km to the northeast (310 miles) · 87% covered at home |
| 26 Dec 2038 | Path 280 km to the north (180 miles) · 91% covered at home |
| 15 Dec 2039 | Path 1,190 km to the south (740 miles) · a partial eclipse 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 Christchurch to 2035
16 eclipses| Date | Eclipse | Local time | From here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jul 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 3:57 am – 4:08 am | Whole eclipse |
| 17 Aug 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 5:24 pm – 9:03 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 7 Jul 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse | 5:09 am – 7:30 am | Visible |
| 22 Jul 2028 | Partial solar eclipse | 3:12 pm – sunset | 93% covered |
| 1 Jan 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 5:16 am – 6:27 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 16 Jun 2030 | Partial lunar eclipse | 5:21 am – 7:45 am | Visible |
| 25 Nov 2030 | Partial solar eclipse | 8:20 pm – sunset | 18% covered |
| 7 May 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 1:52 pm – 5:49 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 5 Jun 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 10:56 pm – 12:31 am | Whole eclipse |
| 30 Oct 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 6:49 pm – 10:41 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 26 Apr 2032 | Total lunar eclipse | 2:40 am – 3:46 am | Whole eclipse |
| 15 Apr 2033 | Total lunar eclipse | 6:48 am – 7:37 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 8 Oct 2033 | Total lunar eclipse | 11:15 pm – 12:34 am | Whole eclipse |
| 4 Apr 2034 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 4:53 am – 9:18 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 22 Feb 2035 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 7:57 pm – 12:12 am | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 10 Mar 2035 | Partial solar eclipse | 9:35 am – 12:16 pm | 91% covered |
Local times (NZDT 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 Christchurch, in short
From now to the end of 2035, Christchurch can see 3 solar eclipses (all of them partial unless marked otherwise) and 6 partial or total lunar eclipses. No total solar eclipse passes over Christchurch 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 Christchurch?
Saturday, 22 July 2028: a partial eclipse from 3:12 pm to sunset local time, covering 93% of the Sun at its peak.
When is the next lunar eclipse in Christchurch?
Friday, 7 July 2028: a partial lunar eclipse, maximum at 6:19 am local time.
When is the next total solar eclipse in Christchurch?
None in the city itself before 2100. The closest coming path of totality passes about 230 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).