MoonPhases

Syzygy

Eclipses

Every eclipse is a full moon or a new moon that lined up unusually well. Peak times are UTC; whether you can see one depends on where you are.

Figures computed 8 October 2026 · rebuilt daily

Next total lunar eclipse

31 December 2028

16:51 UTC · in 2 years

Safe to watch with the naked eye, visible from the entire night side of Earth — Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia at peak — and the moon turns deep red at totality.

Moon detail for this date

Next total solar eclipse

2 August 2027

10:06 UTC · in 10 months

Totality is visible only from a narrow track across Earth’s surface. Never look at a partially eclipsed sun without certified filters.

New moon detail for this date

Lunar eclipses

The moon passing through Earth’s shadow — always at full moon
DateDayPeak (UTC)TypeObscurationVisible fromWhen
20 February 2027Saturday23:12Penumbral0%South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asiain 4 months
18 July 2027Sunday16:02Penumbral0%Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australiain 9 months
17 August 2027Tuesday07:13Penumbral0%North America, South Americain 10 months
12 January 2028Wednesday04:13Partial3%North America, South America, Europe, Africain 1 year
6 July 2028Thursday18:19Partial33%Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australiain 2 years
31 December 2028Sunday16:51Total100%Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australiain 2 years
26 June 2029Tuesday03:22Total100%North America, South America, Africain 3 years
20 December 2029Thursday22:41Total100%South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asiain 3 years
15 June 2030Saturday18:33Partial47%Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australiain 4 years
9 December 2030Monday22:27Penumbral0%South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asiain 4 years
7 May 2031Wednesday03:50Penumbral0%North America, South America, Africain 5 years
5 June 2031Thursday11:44Penumbral0%East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australiain 5 years

Solar eclipses

The moon passing in front of the sun — always at new moon
DateDayPeak (UTC)TypeWhen
6 February 2027Saturday15:59Annularin 4 months
2 August 2027Monday10:06Totalin 10 months
26 January 2028Wednesday15:07Annularin 1 year
22 July 2028Saturday02:55Totalin 2 years
14 January 2029Sunday17:12Partialin 2 years
12 June 2029Tuesday04:04Partialin 3 years
11 July 2029Wednesday15:36Partialin 3 years
5 December 2029Wednesday15:02Partialin 3 years
1 June 2030Saturday06:27Annularin 4 years
25 November 2030Monday06:50Totalin 4 years
21 May 2031Wednesday07:14Annularin 5 years
14 November 2031Friday21:06Totalin 5 years

Solar eclipse types describe what is seen from the best location on Earth. An annular eclipse happens when the moon is near apogee and appears too small to cover the sun completely, leaving a ring of light. Each date links to that day’s page — the new moon the eclipse falls on.

Why eclipses come in seasons

The moon’s orbit is tilted about 5° to Earth’s orbital plane, so at most full moons it passes above or below Earth’s shadow, and at most new moons its shadow misses Earth entirely. Eclipses can only happen when a syzygy coincides with the moon crossing that plane — at one of the two points called nodes.

Those alignments come around roughly every 173 days, in what are called eclipse seasons, each about a month long. Every eclipse season produces at least one solar and one lunar eclipse, which is why they arrive in pairs about two weeks apart: a new moon at one node, a full moon at the other.

Read more about why an eclipsed moon turns red.

“Visible from” is computed, not copied: a region counts when the moon is above the horizon there at the eclipse’s peak. It is a regional answer — a town at the edge of a listed region may catch only the early or late stages, and a town just outside the list may see the moon grazing its horizon.