When is the next eclipse in Onitsha?
Saturday, 6 February 2027: a partial solar eclipse
The Moon will start to cover the Sun at 5:44 pm and hide 70% 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
- 22° at maximum
Totality within reach of Onitsha
total eclipses to 2050 whose path passes within 1,500 km| 20 Mar 2034 | Path 60 km to the northwest (40 miles) · 99% covered at home |
| 2 Aug 2046 | Path 1,370 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 Onitsha to 2035
19 eclipses| Date | Eclipse | Local time | From here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Feb 2027 | Partial solar eclipse | 5:44 pm – sunset | 70% covered |
| 21 Feb 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 10:12 pm – 2:13 am | Whole eclipse |
| 2 Aug 2027 | Partial solar eclipse | 9:49 am – 11:00 am | 2.9% covered |
| 12 Jan 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse | 4:45 am – 5:41 am | Visible |
| 26 Jan 2028 | Partial solar eclipse | 5:38 pm – 6:00 pm | 0.1% 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 | 6.5% 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 – 7:14 am | 15% 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 | Partial solar eclipse | 9:06 am – 11:56 am | 99% covered |
| 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 Onitsha, in short
From now to the end of 2035, Onitsha can see 6 solar eclipses (all of them partial unless marked otherwise) and 9 partial or total lunar eclipses. No total solar eclipse passes over Onitsha 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 Onitsha?
Saturday, 6 February 2027: a partial eclipse from 5:44 pm to sunset local time, covering 70% of the Sun at its peak.
When is the next lunar eclipse in Onitsha?
Wednesday, 12 January 2028: a partial lunar eclipse, maximum at 5:13 am local time.
When is the next total solar eclipse in Onitsha?
None in the city itself before 2100. The closest coming path of totality passes about 60 km away on 20 March 2034.
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).