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Eclipses

Every eclipse to 2030

Twenty-four of them, solar and lunar, in the order they arrive. They come in pairs a fortnight apart because an eclipse season is the Sun reaching the place where the Moon's tilted orbit crosses ours, and that alignment lasts about a month — long enough to catch both a new moon and the full moon after it. Why it is not every month is its own fact.

Solar and lunar eclipses from 2026 to 2030
DateWhatScaleVisible from
17 February 2026Annular solar eclipse2m20s of totalitysouthern Argentina and Chile, southern Africa, Antarctica
3 March 2026Total lunar eclipseumbral magnitude 1.151east Asia, Australia, the Pacific, the Americas
12 August 2026Total solar eclipse2m18s of totalitynorthern North America, west Africa, Europe
28 August 2026Partial lunar eclipseumbral magnitude 0.93the eastern Pacific, the Americas, Europe, Africa
6 February 2027Annular solar eclipse7m51s of totalitySouth America, Antarctica, western and southern Africa
20 February 2027Penumbral lunar eclipseumbral magnitude -0.057the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia
18 July 2027Penumbral lunar eclipseumbral magnitude -1.068east Africa, Asia, Australia, the Pacific
2 August 2027Total solar eclipse6m23s of totalityAfrica, Europe, the Middle East, western and southern Asia
17 August 2027Penumbral lunar eclipseumbral magnitude -0.525the Pacific, the Americas
12 January 2028Partial lunar eclipseumbral magnitude 0.066the Americas, Europe, Africa
26 January 2028Annular solar eclipse10m27s of totalityeastern North America, Central and South America, western…
6 July 2028Partial lunar eclipseumbral magnitude 0.389Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia
22 July 2028Total solar eclipse5m10s of totalitysoutheast Asia, the East Indies, Australia, New Zealand
31 December 2028Total lunar eclipseumbral magnitude 1.246Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Pacific
14 January 2029Partial solar eclipseno central trackNorth America, Central America
12 June 2029Partial solar eclipseno central trackthe Arctic, Scandinavia, Alaska, northern Asia, northern…
26 June 2029Total lunar eclipseumbral magnitude 1.844the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East
11 July 2029Partial solar eclipseno central tracksouthern Chile, southern Argentina
5 December 2029Partial solar eclipseno central tracksouthern Argentina, southern Chile, Antarctica
20 December 2029Total lunar eclipseumbral magnitude 1.117the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia
1 June 2030Annular solar eclipse5m21s of totalityEurope, north Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Arctic…
15 June 2030Partial lunar eclipseumbral magnitude 0.502Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia
25 November 2030Total solar eclipse3m44s of totalitysouthern Africa, the southern Indian Ocean, the East…
9 December 2030Penumbral lunar eclipseumbral magnitude -0.163the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia

Dates, times and durations from NASA's canon of solar and lunar eclipses (opens in a new tab). The geometry on each page — how big the Moon and the Sun actually are that day, and therefore whether you get a corona or a ring — is computed here.

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