When is the next eclipse in Boston?
Tuesday, January 11, 2028: a partial lunar eclipse
The partial eclipse runs from 10:45 pm to 11:41 pm local time, and the Moon is up for all of it. All eclipses to 2035 ↓
- Begins
- 9:28 am
- Maximum
- 10:12 am
- Ends
- 10:58 am
- Sun height
- 24°
- Partial begins
- 10:45 pm
- Maximum
- 11:13 pm
- Partial ends
- 11:41 pm
- Moon height
- 68° at maximum
Every eclipse visible from Boston to 2035
15 eclipses| Date | Eclipse | Local time | From here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 4:12 pm – 8:13 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| Aug 17, 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 1:24 am – 5:03 am | Whole eclipse |
| Jan 11, 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse | 10:45 pm – 11:41 pm | Whole eclipse |
| Jan 26, 2028 | Partial solar eclipse | 9:28 am – 10:58 am | 2.9% covered |
| Jan 14, 2029 | Partial solar eclipse | 11:33 am – 2:14 pm | 40% covered |
| Jun 25, 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 10:31 pm – 12:13 am | Whole eclipse |
| Dec 20, 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 5:15 pm – 6:08 pm | Totality visible |
| Dec 9, 2030 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 3:08 pm – 7:47 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| May 6, 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 9:52 pm – 1:49 am | Whole eclipse |
| Oct 30, 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 1:49 am – 5:41 am | Whole eclipse |
| Mar 30, 2033 | Partial solar eclipse | 2:27 pm – 3:18 pm | 1.7% covered |
| Oct 8, 2033 | Total lunar eclipse | 6:15 am – 7:34 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| Sep 27, 2034 | Partial lunar eclipse | 10:33 pm – 10:59 pm | Whole eclipse |
| Feb 22, 2035 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 1:57 am – 6:12 am | Whole eclipse |
| Aug 18, 2035 | Partial lunar eclipse | 8:32 pm – 9:49 pm | Visible |
Local times (EST 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 Boston, in short
From now to the end of 2035, Boston can see 3 solar eclipses (all of them partial unless marked otherwise) and 6 partial or total lunar eclipses. The next time the Moon covers the Sun completely over the city itself is Monday, May 1, 2079, 53 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 Boston?
Wednesday, January 26, 2028: a partial eclipse from 9:28 am to 10:58 am local time, covering 2.9% of the Sun at its peak.
When is the next lunar eclipse in Boston?
Tuesday, January 11, 2028: a partial lunar eclipse, maximum at 11:13 pm local time.
When is the next total solar eclipse in Boston?
Monday, May 1, 2079, with 2 min 6 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).