When is the next eclipse in Plymouth?
Monday, 2 August 2027: a partial solar eclipse
The Moon will start to cover the Sun at 8:59 am and hide 46% of it at 9:56 am (local time). All eclipses to 2035 ↓
- Begins
- 8:59 am
- Maximum
- 9:56 am
- Ends
- 10:56 am
- Sun height
- 38°
- Partial begins
- 3:45 am
- Maximum
- 4:13 am
- Partial ends
- 4:41 am
- Moon height
- 37° at maximum
Every eclipse visible from Plymouth to 2035
17 eclipses| Date | Eclipse | Local time | From here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Feb 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 9:12 pm – 1:13 am | Whole eclipse |
| 2 Aug 2027 | Partial solar eclipse | 8:59 am – 10:56 am | 46% covered |
| 12 Jan 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse | 3:45 am – 4:41 am | Whole eclipse |
| 26 Jan 2028 | Partial solar eclipse | 3:34 pm – sunset | 56% covered |
| 31 Dec 2028 | Total lunar eclipse | 4:16 pm – 5:27 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 26 Jun 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 3:31 am – 5:13 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 20 Dec 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 10:15 pm – 11:08 pm | Whole eclipse |
| 1 Jun 2030 | Partial solar eclipse | 5:26 am – 7:19 am | 46% covered |
| 9 Dec 2030 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 8:08 pm – 12:47 am | Whole eclipse |
| 7 May 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 2:52 am – 6:49 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 30 Oct 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 5:49 am – 9:41 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 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 | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 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 |
| 22 Feb 2035 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 6:57 am – 11:12 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 19 Aug 2035 | Partial lunar eclipse | 1:32 am – 2:49 am | Whole eclipse |
Local times (GMT 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 Plymouth, in short
From now to the end of 2035, Plymouth can see 3 solar eclipses (all of them partial unless marked otherwise) and 8 partial or total lunar eclipses. The next time the Moon covers the Sun completely over the city itself is Saturday, 23 September 2090, 64 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 Plymouth?
Monday, 2 August 2027: a partial eclipse from 8:59 am to 10:56 am local time, covering 46% of the Sun at its peak.
When is the next lunar eclipse in Plymouth?
Wednesday, 12 January 2028: a partial lunar eclipse, maximum at 4:13 am local time.
When is the next total solar eclipse in Plymouth?
Saturday, 23 September 2090, with 2 min 11 s of totality at the city centre.
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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).