When is the next eclipse in Benin City?
Saturday, 6 February 2027: a partial solar eclipse
The Moon will start to cover the Sun at 5:44 pm and hide 76% of it at sunset (local time). All eclipses to 2035 ↓
- Begins
- 5:44 pm
- Maximum
- sunset
- Ends
- at sunset
- Sun height
- 0°
- Partial begins
- 4:45 am
- Maximum
- 5:13 am
- Partial ends
- 5:41 am
- Moon height
- 23° at maximum
Totality within reach of Benin City
total eclipses to 2050 whose path passes within 1,500 km| 20 Mar 2034 | In the path: 1 min 58 s of totality in Benin City |
| 2 Aug 2046 | Path 1,360 km to the south (850 miles) · 56% 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 Benin City to 2035
20 eclipses| Date | Eclipse | Local time | From here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Feb 2027 | Partial solar eclipse | 5:44 pm – sunset | 76% covered |
| 21 Feb 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 10:12 pm – 2:13 am | Whole eclipse |
| 2 Aug 2027 | Partial solar eclipse | 9:46 am – 10:56 am | 2.8% covered |
| 17 Aug 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 6:24 am – 10:03 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 12 Jan 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse | 4:45 am – 5:41 am | Visible |
| 26 Jan 2028 | Partial solar eclipse | 5:30 pm – 6:06 pm | 0.6% covered |
| 6 Jul 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse | 6:09 pm – 8:30 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 26 Jun 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 3:31 am – 5:13 am | Totality visible |
| 20 Dec 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 11:15 pm – 12:08 am | Whole eclipse |
| 15 Jun 2030 | Partial lunar eclipse | 6:21 pm – 8:45 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 25 Nov 2030 | Partial solar eclipse | sunrise – 6:41 am | 3.3% covered |
| 9 Dec 2030 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 9:08 pm – 1:47 am | Whole eclipse |
| 7 May 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 2:52 am – 6:49 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 21 May 2031 | Partial solar eclipse | sunrise – 7:12 am | 13% covered |
| 18 Oct 2032 | Total lunar eclipse | 7:38 pm – 8:26 pm | Totality visible |
| 14 Apr 2033 | Total lunar eclipse | 7:48 pm – 8:37 pm | Totality visible |
| 20 Mar 2034 | Total solar eclipse | 9:04 am – 11:53 am | Totality 1m 58s |
| 3 Apr 2034 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 5:53 pm – 10:18 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 28 Sep 2034 | Partial lunar eclipse | 3:33 am – 3:59 am | Whole eclipse |
| 19 Aug 2035 | Partial lunar eclipse | 1:32 am – 2:49 am | Whole eclipse |
Local times (WAT 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 Benin City, in short
From now to the end of 2035, Benin City can see 6 solar eclipses (all of them partial unless marked otherwise) and 9 partial or total lunar eclipses. The next time the Moon covers the Sun completely over the city itself is Monday, 20 March 2034, 8 years from now. 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 Benin City?
Saturday, 6 February 2027: a partial eclipse from 5:44 pm to sunset local time, covering 76% of the Sun at its peak.
When is the next lunar eclipse in Benin City?
Wednesday, 12 January 2028: a partial lunar eclipse, maximum at 5:13 am local time.
When is the next total solar eclipse in Benin City?
Monday, 20 March 2034, with 1 min 58 s of totality at the city centre.
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).