When is the next eclipse in Anchorage?
Tuesday, January 11, 2028: a partial lunar eclipse
The partial eclipse runs from 6:45 pm to 7:41 pm local time, and the Moon is up for all of it. All eclipses to 2035 ↓
- Begins
- 8:20 pm
- Maximum
- 8:59 pm
- Ends
- 9:36 pm
- Sun height
- 13°
- Partial begins
- 6:45 pm
- Maximum
- 7:13 pm
- Partial ends
- 7:41 pm
- Moon height
- 19° at maximum
Totality within reach of Anchorage
total eclipses to 2050 whose path passes within 1,500 km| Mar 30, 2033 | Path 440 km to the northwest (270 miles) · 97% covered at home |
| Aug 23, 2044 | Path 1,300 km to the northeast (810 miles) · 81% 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 Anchorage to 2035
10 eclipses| Date | Eclipse | Local time | From here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 9:24 pm – 1:03 am | Moon rises eclipsed |
| Jan 11, 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse | 6:45 pm – 7:41 pm | Whole eclipse |
| Dec 31, 2028 | Total lunar eclipse | 7:16 am – 8:27 am | Totality visible |
| Jun 11, 2029 | Partial solar eclipse | 8:20 pm – 9:36 pm | 12% covered |
| May 31, 2030 | Partial solar eclipse | 10:24 pm – sunset | 22% covered |
| Jun 5, 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 2:56 am – 4:31 am | Whole eclipse |
| Oct 29, 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 9:49 pm – 1:41 am | Whole eclipse |
| Mar 30, 2033 | Partial solar eclipse | 8:46 am – 10:46 am | 97% covered |
| Oct 8, 2033 | Total lunar eclipse | 2:15 am – 3:34 am | Whole eclipse |
| Feb 22, 2035 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 9:57 pm – 2:12 am | Whole eclipse |
Local times (AKST 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 Anchorage, in short
From now to the end of 2035, Anchorage can see 3 solar eclipses (all of them partial unless marked otherwise) and 3 partial or total lunar eclipses. No total solar eclipse passes over Anchorage 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 Anchorage?
Monday, June 11, 2029: a partial eclipse from 8:20 pm to 9:36 pm local time, covering 12% of the Sun at its peak.
When is the next lunar eclipse in Anchorage?
Tuesday, January 11, 2028: a partial lunar eclipse, maximum at 7:13 pm local time.
When is the next total solar eclipse in Anchorage?
None in the city itself before 2100. The closest coming path of totality passes about 440 km away on March 30, 2033.
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).