Eclipses in South Africa
Next solar eclipse in South Africa: 6 February 2027
Annular solar eclipse (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil in the path). Totality crosses South Africa on 25 November 2030. Pick your city for exact local times.
The biggest cities
next eclipse of each kind| City | Next solar eclipse | Next lunar eclipse | Next total solar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg | 6 Feb 2027 3.7% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Cape Town | 6 Feb 2027 2.3% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Durban | 6 Feb 2027 0.7% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | 25 Nov 2030 |
| Pretoria | 6 Feb 2027 3.7% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Soweto | 6 Feb 2027 4.0% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Gqeberha | 6 Feb 2027 0.8% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | 24 Jul 2055 |
| Soshanguve | 6 Feb 2027 3.8% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Pietermaritzburg | 6 Feb 2027 1.2% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | 25 Nov 2030 |
| Evaton | 6 Feb 2027 3.8% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Benoni | 6 Feb 2027 3.4% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Bloemfontein | 6 Feb 2027 3.7% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Thembisa | 6 Feb 2027 3.5% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| East London | 6 Feb 2027 0.9% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | 24 Jul 2055 |
| Vereeniging | 6 Feb 2027 3.7% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Boksburg | 6 Feb 2027 3.4% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Welkom | 6 Feb 2027 4.2% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | 25 Nov 2030 |
| Newcastle | 6 Feb 2027 1.8% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | 11 Jun 2086 |
| Krugersdorp | 6 Feb 2027 4.1% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Rustenburg | 6 Feb 2027 4.6% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Emalahleni | 6 Feb 2027 2.4% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | 2 Aug 2046 |
| Randburg | 6 Feb 2027 3.8% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Roodepoort | 6 Feb 2027 4.0% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Botshabelo | 6 Feb 2027 3.4% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Brakpan | 6 Feb 2027 3.4% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | after 2100 |
| Kariega | 6 Feb 2027 0.9% | 6 Jul 2028 partial | 24 Jul 2055 |
All 30 cities in South Africa
South Africa
Benoni · Bloemfontein · Boksburg · Botshabelo · Brakpan · Cape Town · Durban · East London · Emalahleni · Evaton · Germiston · Gqeberha · Johannesburg · Kariega · Krugersdorp · Newcastle · Paarl · Pietermaritzburg · Polokwane · Pretoria · Randburg · Richards Bay · Roodepoort · Rustenburg · Soshanguve · Soweto · Thembisa · Vanderbijlpark · Vereeniging · Welkom
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).