Eclipse finder: next solar and lunar eclipses from your city

Every solar and lunar eclipse of the next ten years as your city sees it: type, local times, Sun covered, Sun or Moon height. Free, no sign-up.

Pick a city and get every solar and lunar eclipse of the next ten years as that place sees it: total, annular or partial there, the local times, how much of the Sun is covered, and how high the Sun or the Moon stands. For anyone deciding whether to watch from home or to travel. Free, no account, nothing stored.

What it does, and why it is here

An eclipse list tells you where an eclipse happens; the question is what your own sky will show. A solar eclipse is local: on August 2, 2027, the Moon hides the Sun completely for 2 min 53 s over Cádiz, while Seville, about 100 km north, stays partial with 98% of the Sun covered. Local times change from place to place, the Sun can rise or set mid-eclipse, and a lunar eclipse is seen only where the Moon is up. The tool answers for one place, where you live or where you would travel to: it lists the eclipses seen from there and counts the others.

What you fill in

One field, City. Type a name and pick it from the suggestions: the choice fills in the latitude, longitude and IANA time zone the answer is computed from, and the button stays inactive until a suggestion is picked. The ten years start today at that place, and every time is local there, daylight saving time applied. The answer holds for the city's coordinates: near the edge of a path of totality, a few kilometers decide between total and partial, so enter the town you will actually stand in.

What you get back

First, the next eclipse seen from here: its type as your city sees it, and the date and time of its maximum. Then a table of every eclipse of the ten years that is at least partly above your horizon, in date order:

Day of the maximum.
Here: the type as seen from your place. A solar eclipse is total, annular (a ring of Sun left around the Moon) or partial; a lunar eclipse is total, partial or penumbral (the Moon only in the Earth's faint outer shadow). A total or annular solar eclipse, and a total lunar one, come with the length of that phase, as in “2 min 53 s of totality”.
Start – maximum – end, in local time: for a solar eclipse, first contact, greatest eclipse and last contact; for a partial or total lunar eclipse, the Moon entering and leaving the Earth's dark shadow; for a penumbral one, entering and leaving the outer shadow.
Magnitude: the fraction of the Sun's diameter the Moon covers, or of the Moon's diameter inside the shadow; 1 or more means total. A solar eclipse adds the share of the Sun's area covered.
Height of the Sun, or of the Moon for a lunar eclipse, at maximum, in degrees. A negative height comes with “below the horizon at maximum: seen at sunrise or sunset” (or “as the Moon rises or sets”): from Paris, the partial solar eclipse of January 26, 2028 starts at 4:37 PM with the Sun up and peaks at 5:51 PM, with the Sun 3° down.

Below the table, one line counts, without listing them, the eclipses that happen entirely with the Sun or the Moon below your horizon: 13 for Paris.

Under the answer, Add to my calendar downloads the eclipses seen from your city as an .ics file, and Subscribe (updates itself) gives your calendar an address it re-reads every day, recomputed each time, so the ten years move forward on their own. Each eclipse becomes an event from start to end, named by its type, with the time of maximum, the magnitude and the height in its notes.

What it does not do

It does not draw the path of totality. To choose where to travel, look at a path map, then enter the towns on it.
Its times, durations included, are good to the minute, not the second: another almanac may differ by a few seconds.
The times are the whole eclipse's: when the Sun or the Moon rises or sets mid-eclipse, the start or the end on the row happens below your horizon.
Heights leave out atmospheric refraction, which lifts a body near the horizon a little, and know nothing of hills or buildings.
It does not time the faint penumbral phase around a partial or total lunar eclipse.
It does not know the weather, and it keeps nothing: the city is used for the answer and forgotten, though the subscription address carries the city and its coordinates.

Nor does it protect your eyes. Watch every partial or annular phase through eclipse glasses that meet ISO 12312-2; they come off only during totality itself.

The eclipse of August 2, 2027, city by city

The same total solar eclipse, submitted to the tool from nine cities, in each city's local time.

City	Here	Start – maximum – end (local)	Magnitude	Sun covered	Sun's height
Luxor, Egypt	Total, 6 min 21 s	11:40 AM – 1:05 PM – 2:26 PM	1.03	100%	82°
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	Total, 5 min 58 s	12:00 PM – 1:25 PM – 2:43 PM	1.03	100%	76°
Tangier, Morocco	Total, 4 min 50 s	8:40 AM – 9:47 AM – 11:00 AM	1.03	100%	38°
Cádiz, Spain	Total, 2 min 53 s	9:40 AM – 10:46 AM – 11:59 AM	1.01	100%	37°
Málaga, Spain	Total, 1 min 52 s	9:42 AM – 10:49 AM – 12:02 PM	1.00	100%	39°
Seville, Spain	Partial	9:41 AM – 10:47 AM – 12:00 PM	0.98	98%	38°
Madrid, Spain	Partial	9:45 AM – 10:51 AM – 12:02 PM	0.88	86%	40°
Paris, France	Partial	10:00 AM – 11:01 AM – 12:05 PM	0.60	51%	43°
London, UK	Partial	9:03 AM – 10:00 AM – 10:59 AM	0.52	42%	40°

In New York it ends before sunrise: the tool counts it there, without listing it.

Questions

When is the next eclipse where I live?

Enter your city: the first line of the answer names the next eclipse seen from there, with its type and the date and time of its maximum. The table below it runs ten years ahead.

Will the August 2, 2027 eclipse be total where I am?

Only if your town lies on the narrow path of totality, which NASA maps from the Strait of Gibraltar across North Africa and Egypt to Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia. Enter your town: Total solar eclipse with a duration means yes; Partial solar eclipse means you are outside the path, even at a magnitude of 0.98.

What is the difference between magnitude and the percentage of the Sun covered?

Magnitude is the share of the Sun's diameter the Moon covers, the percentage the share of its area. In Paris on August 2, 2027, a magnitude of 0.60 hides 51% of the Sun; in Seville, 0.98 hides 98%.

Why is an eclipse listed when the Sun is below the horizon?

Because part of it happens with the Sun up, even though its maximum falls after sunset or before sunrise; the row then says it is seen at sunrise or sunset. An eclipse that stays entirely below your horizon is only counted.

Why does a lunar eclipse come at a different hour in another city?

Only the clock changes: a lunar eclipse happens at the same instant for everyone with the Moon above the horizon. The penumbral eclipse of February 2027 peaks at 11:12 PM on the 20th in London, 12:12 AM on the 21st in Paris and 1:12 AM in Luxor.

Is it safe to look at a solar eclipse?

Only through eclipse glasses or a solar viewer that meets ISO 12312-2, at every partial and annular phase. They come off only during totality itself, and go back on as soon as the Sun starts to reappear. Sunglasses are not a filter.

Sources and further reading

NASA: Total Solar Eclipse of 2027 Aug 02: the path of totality on an interactive map.
NASA: Solar Eclipses: catalogs of past and future solar eclipses.
NASA: Eclipse Viewing Safety: eclipse glasses, ISO 12312-2, and when they may come off.

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