Eclipses 2026–2035: dates, types and where each one is visible
Every solar and lunar eclipse through 2035, from NASA's catalog: date, type, greatest eclipse in UTC, magnitude, duration and the region that sees it.
Transcribed from NASA's GSFC catalog. Times are greatest eclipse in UTC, converted from NASA's TD using the same ΔT polynomial the rest of this site uses.
| Date | Kind | Type | Greatest (UTC) | Magnitude | Duration | Where visible |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2026 | Solar | Annular | 12:11 | 0.963 | 2m 20s | Southern Argentina and Chile, southern Africa, Antarctica |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Solar | Total | 17:45 | 1.039 | 2m 18s | Northern North America, western Africa, Europe |
| Feb 6, 2027 | Solar | Annular | 15:59 | 0.928 | 7m 51s | South America, Antarctica, western and southern Africa |
| Aug 2, 2027 | Solar | Total | 10:06 | 1.079 | 6m 23s | Africa, Europe, the Middle East, western and southern Asia |
| Jan 26, 2028 | Solar | Annular | 15:07 | 0.921 | 10m 27s | Eastern North America, Central and South America, western Europe, northwest Africa |
| Jul 22, 2028 | Solar | Total | 02:55 | 1.056 | 5m 10s | Southeast Asia, the East Indies, Australia, New Zealand |
| Jan 14, 2029 | Solar | Partial | 17:12 | 0.871 | — | North America, Central America |
| Jun 12, 2029 | Solar | Partial | 04:04 | 0.458 | — | The Arctic, Scandinavia, Alaska, northern Asia, northern Canada |
| Jul 11, 2029 | Solar | Partial | 15:36 | 0.230 | — | Southern Chile, southern Argentina |
| Dec 5, 2029 | Solar | Partial | 15:02 | 0.891 | — | Southern Argentina, southern Chile, Antarctica |
| Jun 1, 2030 | Solar | Annular | 06:27 | 0.944 | 5m 21s | Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Arctic, Alaska |
| Nov 25, 2030 | Solar | Total | 06:50 | 1.047 | 3m 44s | Southern Africa, the southern Indian Ocean, the East Indies, Australia, Antarctica |
| May 21, 2031 | Solar | Annular | 07:14 | 0.959 | 5m 26s | Africa, southern Asia, the East Indies, Australia |
| Nov 14, 2031 | Solar | Hybrid | 21:06 | 1.011 | 1m 08s | The Pacific, the southern United States, Central America, northwest South America |
| May 9, 2032 | Solar | Annular | 13:25 | 0.996 | 0m 22s | Southern South America, southern Africa |
| Nov 3, 2032 | Solar | Partial | 05:32 | 0.855 | — | Asia |
| Mar 30, 2033 | Solar | Total | 18:01 | 1.046 | 2m 37s | North America |
| Sep 23, 2033 | Solar | Partial | 13:53 | 0.689 | — | Southern South America, Antarctica |
| Mar 20, 2034 | Solar | Total | 10:17 | 1.046 | 4m 09s | Africa, Europe, western Asia |
| Sep 12, 2034 | Solar | Annular | 16:18 | 0.974 | 2m 58s | Central America, South America |
| Mar 9, 2035 | Solar | Annular | 23:04 | 0.992 | 0m 48s | Australia, New Zealand, the southern Pacific, Mexico, Antarctica |
| Sep 2, 2035 | Solar | Total | 01:55 | 1.032 | 2m 54s | Eastern Asia, the Pacific |
| Mar 3, 2026 | Lunar | Total | 11:33 | 1.151 | 3h 27m (totality 58m) | Eastern Asia, Australia, the Pacific, the Americas |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Lunar | Partial | 04:12 | 0.930 | 3h 18m | The eastern Pacific, the Americas, Europe, Africa |
| Feb 20, 2027 | Lunar | Penumbral | 23:12 | -0.057 | — | The Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia |
| Jul 18, 2027 | Lunar | Penumbral | 16:02 | -1.068 | — | Eastern Africa, Asia, Australia, the Pacific |
| Aug 17, 2027 | Lunar | Penumbral | 07:13 | -0.525 | — | The Pacific, the Americas |
| Jan 12, 2028 | Lunar | Partial | 04:12 | 0.066 | 56m | The Americas, Europe, Africa |
| Jul 6, 2028 | Lunar | Partial | 18:19 | 0.389 | 2h 21m | Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia |
| Dec 31, 2028 | Lunar | Total | 16:51 | 1.246 | 3h 29m (totality 1h 11m) | Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Pacific |
| Jun 26, 2029 | Lunar | Total | 03:22 | 1.844 | 3h 40m (totality 1h 42m) | The Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East |
| Dec 20, 2029 | Lunar | Total | 22:41 | 1.117 | 3h 33m (totality 54m) | The Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia |
| Jun 15, 2030 | Lunar | Partial | 18:33 | 0.502 | 2h 24m | Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia |
| Dec 9, 2030 | Lunar | Penumbral | 22:27 | -0.163 | — | The Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia |
| May 7, 2031 | Lunar | Penumbral | 03:50 | -0.090 | — | The Americas, Europe, Africa |
| Jun 5, 2031 | Lunar | Penumbral | 11:43 | -0.820 | — | The East Indies, Australia, the Pacific |
| Oct 30, 2031 | Lunar | Penumbral | 07:45 | -0.320 | — | The Americas |
| Apr 25, 2032 | Lunar | Total | 15:13 | 1.191 | 3h 31m (totality 1h 06m) | Eastern Africa, Asia, Australia, the Pacific |
| Oct 18, 2032 | Lunar | Total | 19:02 | 1.103 | 3h 16m (totality 47m) | Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia |
| Apr 14, 2033 | Lunar | Total | 19:12 | 1.094 | 3h 35m (totality 49m) | Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia |
| Oct 8, 2033 | Lunar | Total | 10:55 | 1.350 | 3h 22m (totality 1h 19m) | Asia, Australia, the Pacific, the Americas |
| Apr 3, 2034 | Lunar | Penumbral | 19:05 | -0.227 | — | Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia |
| Sep 28, 2034 | Lunar | Partial | 02:46 | 0.014 | 27m | The Americas, Europe, Africa |
| Feb 22, 2035 | Lunar | Penumbral | 09:04 | -0.053 | — | Eastern Asia, the Pacific, the Americas |
| Aug 19, 2035 | Lunar | Partial | 01:10 | 0.104 | 1h 17m | The Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East |
Duration for a solar eclipse is the central duration on the path of totality or annularity; for a lunar eclipse it is how long the Moon spends in the umbra, with totality in brackets. A penumbral eclipse has no umbral phase, which is why its magnitude is negative and its duration is an em dash.
An eclipse needs three bodies in a line, and the Moon’s orbit is tilted 5.1° to the ecliptic — so most new and full moons miss. Only when the alignment happens near one of the two nodes where the orbits cross does a shadow land, which is why eclipses arrive in seasons, roughly 173 days apart.
The table above is transcribed from NASA’s GSFC catalog: 22 solar and 23 lunar eclipses between 2026 and 2035, with the columns that decide whether one is worth traveling for.
The four solar types, in one line each
| Type | What happens | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Total | The Sun is completely covered; corona visible | Moon near perigee, disc large enough |
| Annular | A ring of Sun remains all round | Moon near apogee, disc about 10% too small |
| Hybrid | Total along part of the path, annular along the rest | Earth’s curvature changes the Moon’s apparent size |
| Partial | The Sun is only partly covered | The alignment misses; no central path exists |
Duration and type are independent. The 2027 August 2 total eclipse gives 6m 23s of totality over Egypt and Saudi Arabia — the longest over land this century. The 2028 January 26 annular eclipse lasts 10m 27s, but a ring is not a totality and the sky does not darken.
Why lunar eclipses are the easy ones
Earth’s umbra at the Moon’s distance is about 2.6 Moon-diameters wide. The Moon takes hours to cross it, and everyone on the night side of Earth sees the same thing at the same moment — no travel, no path, no special glasses. A total lunar eclipse is also the only time you can see the whole disc lit by refracted sunlight from every sunrise and sunset on Earth at once, which is why it turns copper rather than black.
A solar eclipse inverts every one of those properties: the Moon’s umbra reaches Earth as a spot 100–260 km across, the event lasts minutes, and you must be inside the spot. That asymmetry is the whole reason eclipse chasing exists.
Reading the magnitude column
For a solar eclipse the magnitude is the fraction of the Sun’s diameter covered at greatest eclipse, so 0.230 in July 2029 means a bite taken out of one side and nothing more. It is not the fraction of area, and it is not brightness.
For a lunar eclipse the number is the umbral magnitude: how deeply the Moon enters the umbra, in units of the Moon’s own diameter. Above 1.0 the Moon is entirely inside. A negative value means it only reaches the penumbra, and the event is one most people will not notice.
The dates that matter most
- 2026 August 12 — total, 2m 18s, over Iceland and northern Spain. The first total eclipse in mainland Europe since 1999.
- 2027 August 2 — total, 6m 23s, over southern Spain, Morocco, Egypt and the Arabian peninsula. The longest totality of the century over populated land.
- 2028 July 22 — total, 5m 10s, over Australia and New Zealand.
- 2033 March 30 — total, 2m 37s, over eastern Russia and Alaska.
- 2034 March 20 — total, 4m 09s, crossing Nigeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, India and China.
Whether the weather cooperates is a separate question, and not one this site can compute. If you are planning around one of these, how eclipses arrive in seasons explains why they cluster the way they do, and solar versus lunar eclipse covers the shadow geometry.
Dates and circumstances are NASA’s; the times are converted to UTC. Local visibility and weather are not modelled.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the difference between a total and an annular solar eclipse?
- It is the Moon's distance, not its size. When the Moon is near perigee its disc is large enough to cover the Sun completely, and you get a total eclipse with a corona and a dark sky. Near apogee the disc is about 10% too small, so a ring of photosphere stays visible all around and the sky never goes properly dark. The 2027 August eclipse is total with 6m 23s of darkness; the 2028 January one is annular with 10m 27s of ring.
- Why is a lunar eclipse visible from half the planet and a solar eclipse only from a narrow path?
- Geometry. Earth's umbra is about 2.6 times the Moon's diameter at the Moon's distance, so when the Moon enters it, everyone on the night side sees the same event. The Moon's umbra barely reaches Earth at all and tapers to a spot 100–260 km across, which is why totality is a place you travel to.
- Why do the times differ from NASA's table by a minute?
- Time base. NASA publishes greatest eclipse in Terrestrial Dynamical Time, which runs about 69 seconds ahead of UTC in 2026 and 76 in 2035. This table subtracts ΔT using the same Espenak–Meeus polynomial the rest of the site uses, so the printed time is the one a clock shows.
- Why are some lunar eclipses listed with a negative magnitude?
- A negative umbral magnitude means the Moon misses the umbra entirely and only passes through the penumbra — a penumbral eclipse, in which the Moon dims slightly on one limb and nothing more. They are listed rather than omitted because a reader searching for a date deserves an answer, even when the answer is that little will happen.
Sources
- NASA GSFC, Solar Eclipses: 2021–2030 and 2031–2040, compiled by Fred Espenak — dates, types, saros series, magnitudes, central durations and visibility paths transcribed directly (eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html)
- NASA GSFC, Lunar Eclipses: 2021–2030 and 2031–2040, compiled by Fred Espenak — umbral magnitudes, umbral durations and totality lengths (eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html)
- Espenak & Meeus, ΔT polynomial, 2005–2050 branch — used to convert NASA's Terrestrial Dynamical Time to UTC (eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/deltatpoly.html)
- NASA Science — Eclipses: why eclipses need a node alignment and why they arrive in seasons roughly 173 days apart (science.nasa.gov/eclipses/)
- Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd edition, chapter 54 — the geometry of umbral and penumbral shadows at the Moon's distance