When is the next eclipse in Durban?
Saturday, 6 February 2027: a partial solar eclipse
The Moon will start to cover the Sun at 6:39 pm and hide 0.7% of it at sunset (local time). All eclipses to 2035 ↓
- Begins
- 6:39 pm
- Maximum
- sunset
- Ends
- at sunset
- Sun height
- 0°
- Partial begins
- 7:09 pm
- Maximum
- 8:19 pm
- Partial ends
- 9:30 pm
- Moon height
- 40° at maximum
Totality within reach of Durban
total eclipses to 2050 whose path passes within 1,500 km| 25 Nov 2030 | In the path: 2 min 27 s of totality in Durban |
| 2 Aug 2046 | Path 190 km to the northeast (120 miles) · 95% covered at home |
| 5 Dec 2048 | Path 1,270 km to the northwest (790 miles) · 46% 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 Durban to 2035
19 eclipses| Date | Eclipse | Local time | From here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Feb 2027 | Partial solar eclipse | 6:39 pm – sunset | 0.7% covered |
| 21 Feb 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 11:12 pm – 3:13 am | Whole eclipse |
| 18 Jul 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 5:57 pm – 6:08 pm | Whole eclipse |
| 6 Jul 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse | 7:09 pm – 9:30 pm | Whole eclipse |
| 31 Dec 2028 | Total lunar eclipse | 6:16 pm – 7:27 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 26 Jun 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 4:31 am – 6:13 am | Totality visible |
| 21 Dec 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 12:15 am – 1:08 am | Whole eclipse |
| 15 Jun 2030 | Partial lunar eclipse | 7:21 pm – 9:45 pm | Whole eclipse |
| 25 Nov 2030 | Total solar eclipse | 6:32 am – 8:44 am | Totality 2m 27s |
| 10 Dec 2030 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 10:08 pm – 2:47 am | Whole eclipse |
| 7 May 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 3:52 am – 7:49 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 21 May 2031 | Partial solar eclipse | sunrise – 8:37 am | 33% covered |
| 25 Apr 2032 | Total lunar eclipse | 4:40 pm – 5:46 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 9 May 2032 | Partial solar eclipse | 3:35 pm – sunset | 43% covered |
| 18 Oct 2032 | Total lunar eclipse | 8:38 pm – 9:26 pm | Whole eclipse |
| 14 Apr 2033 | Total lunar eclipse | 8:48 pm – 9:37 pm | Whole eclipse |
| 3 Apr 2034 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 6:53 pm – 11:18 pm | Whole eclipse |
| 28 Sep 2034 | Partial lunar eclipse | 4:33 am – 4:59 am | Visible |
| 19 Aug 2035 | Partial lunar eclipse | 2:32 am – 3:49 am | Whole eclipse |
Local times (SAST 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 Durban, in short
From now to the end of 2035, Durban can see 4 solar eclipses (all of them partial unless marked otherwise) and 10 partial or total lunar eclipses. The next time the Moon covers the Sun completely over the city itself is Monday, 25 November 2030, 4 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 Durban?
Saturday, 6 February 2027: a partial eclipse from 6:39 pm to sunset local time, covering 0.7% of the Sun at its peak.
When is the next lunar eclipse in Durban?
Thursday, 6 July 2028: a partial lunar eclipse, maximum at 8:19 pm local time.
When is the next total solar eclipse in Durban?
Monday, 25 November 2030, with 2 min 27 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).