Is this data accurate enough for travel planning?

Yes. The peak times are accurate to the minute and come straight from NASA's Five Millennium Canon. For the path of totality (which determines whether a specific city is in the path), follow the per-eclipse NASA link on each detail page — those interactive maps are authoritative and update if any rare correction is published.

Why do solar and lunar eclipses look so different?

Solar eclipses are visible only along a narrow path on Earth's surface (the Moon's shadow is small), so the "visible region" for a total solar eclipse is often a strip a few hundred kilometres wide. Lunar eclipses are visible from anywhere on Earth's night side at the moment of greatest eclipse — much broader audience, but no totality path to chase.

How does the local-time conversion work?

We take NASA's published peak time in UTC and convert it to your browser's reported timezone using the standard Intl.DateTimeFormat API. So when you load a page and it says the peak is at 21:46 your time, that's the converted moment of greatest eclipse. The countdown ticks down to that exact moment.

What's the difference between magnitude and obscuration?

Magnitude is the fraction of the Sun's (or Moon's) diameter eclipsed — a unitless number where 1.0 means the diameters exactly match. Obscuration is the fraction of the Sun's area covered. They differ because diameter and area scale differently. We display NASA's standard magnitude convention; for area-based estimates, see the per-eclipse NASA page.

Why aren't eclipses past 2030 listed?

The upcoming-eclipses catalog stops at 2030 because (a) very long-range predictions still need ground-truth refinement and (b) most users want "what's next" not "what's in 2087." The Five Millennium Canon predicts thousands of future eclipses; the NASA links from this calendar take you to the full historical and future tables for any year.

Eclipse calendar

Upcoming eclipses

12 solar and lunar eclipses scheduled through 2030. Click any event for the peak moment in your local time, magnitude, duration, and the path of totality or annularity.

Aug 2026
17:46 UTC
Total Solar Eclipse
Greenland, Iceland, northern Spain — partial across Europe, North Africa, and northeastern North America
☉ total
max 2m 18s
Aug 2026
04:13 UTC
Partial Lunar Eclipse
Americas, western Europe, western Africa
☾ partial
Feb 2027
16:00 UTC
Annular Solar Eclipse
Argentina, Chile, southern Atlantic, west Africa coast
☉ annular
max 7m 51s
Aug 2027
10:07 UTC
Total Solar Eclipse
Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia
☉ total
max 6m 23s
Jan 2028
15:08 UTC
Annular Solar Eclipse
Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, Spain, Portugal
☉ annular
max 10m 27s
Jul 2028
02:55 UTC
Total Solar Eclipse
Australia (especially Sydney), New Zealand (South Island)
☉ total
max 5m 10s
Dec 2028
16:52 UTC
Total Lunar Eclipse
Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, western Australia
☾ total
max 1h 11m
Jan 2029
17:13 UTC
Partial Solar Eclipse
North America, Central America, northern South America
☉ partial
Jun 2029
03:22 UTC
Total Lunar Eclipse
Americas, Europe, Africa
☾ total
max 1h 42m
Dec 2029
22:42 UTC
Total Lunar Eclipse
Americas, Europe, Africa, western Asia
☾ total
max 54m
Jun 2030
06:29 UTC
Annular Solar Eclipse
Algeria, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey, Russia, China, Japan
☉ annular
max 5m 21s
Nov 2030
06:50 UTC
Total Solar Eclipse
Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, southern Indian Ocean, southern Australia
☉ total
max 3m 44s

Data source

Eclipse data from NASA/JPL — Fred Espenak & Jean Meeus, Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses and Five Millennium Canon of Lunar Eclipses (NASA Technical Publications NASA/TP–2006-214141 and NASA/TP–2009-214172). Public domain; re-published here with attribution.

Authoritative source: eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov — NASA NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Questions

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Is this data accurate enough for travel planning?: Yes. The peak times are accurate to the minute and come straight from NASA's Five Millennium Canon. For the path of totality (which determines whether a specific city is in the path), follow the per-eclipse NASA link on each detail page — those interactive maps are authoritative and update if any rare correction is published.
Why do solar and lunar eclipses look so different?: Solar eclipses are visible only along a narrow path on Earth's surface (the Moon's shadow is small), so the "visible region" for a total solar eclipse is often a strip a few hundred kilometres wide. Lunar eclipses are visible from anywhere on Earth's night side at the moment of greatest eclipse — much broader audience, but no totality path to chase.
How does the local-time conversion work?: We take NASA's published peak time in UTC and convert it to your browser's reported timezone using the standard Intl.DateTimeFormat API. So when you load a page and it says the peak is at 21:46 your time, that's the converted moment of greatest eclipse. The countdown ticks down to that exact moment.
What's the difference between magnitude and obscuration?: Magnitude is the fraction of the Sun's (or Moon's) diameter eclipsed — a unitless number where 1.0 means the diameters exactly match. Obscuration is the fraction of the Sun's area covered. They differ because diameter and area scale differently. We display NASA's standard magnitude convention; for area-based estimates, see the per-eclipse NASA page.
Why aren't eclipses past 2030 listed?: The upcoming-eclipses catalog stops at 2030 because (a) very long-range predictions still need ground-truth refinement and (b) most users want "what's next" not "what's in 2087." The Five Millennium Canon predicts thousands of future eclipses; the NASA links from this calendar take you to the full historical and future tables for any year.

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