When is the next eclipse in Richards Bay?
Thursday, 6 July 2028: a partial lunar eclipse
The partial eclipse runs from 7:09 pm to 9:30 pm local time, and the Moon is up for all of it. All eclipses to 2035 ↓
- Begins
- 6:31 am
- Maximum
- 7:34 am
- Ends
- 8:44 am
- Sun height
- 34°
- Partial begins
- 7:09 pm
- Maximum
- 8:19 pm
- Partial ends
- 9:30 pm
- Moon height
- 41° at maximum
Totality within reach of Richards Bay
total eclipses to 2050 whose path passes within 1,500 km| 25 Nov 2030 | Path 60 km to the southwest (30 miles) · 99% covered at home |
| 2 Aug 2046 | Path 40 km to the northeast (20 miles) · 99% covered at home |
| 5 Dec 2048 | Path 1,290 km to the northwest (800 miles) · 34% 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 Richards Bay to 2035
19 eclipses| Date | Eclipse | Local time | From here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Feb 2027 | Partial solar eclipse | 6:38 pm – sunset | 0.2% 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 | Partial solar eclipse | 6:31 am – 8:44 am | 99% covered |
| 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 – 8:39 am | 35% covered |
| 25 Apr 2032 | Total lunar eclipse | 4:40 pm – 5:46 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 9 May 2032 | Partial solar eclipse | 3:39 pm – sunset | 40% 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 Richards Bay, in short
From now to the end of 2035, Richards Bay 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 Tuesday, 11 June 2086, 60 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 Richards Bay?
Monday, 25 November 2030: a partial eclipse from 6:31 am to 8:44 am local time, covering 99% of the Sun at its peak.
When is the next lunar eclipse in Richards Bay?
Thursday, 6 July 2028: a partial lunar eclipse, maximum at 8:19 pm local time.
When is the next total solar eclipse in Richards Bay?
Tuesday, 11 June 2086, with 45 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).