☉ ☽ Solar and lunar eclipses · 2026–2027

Eclipses 2026 and 2027

By The Zodiac Atlas Editorial Team · Updated October 23, 2026 · How we work

2026 had four eclipses, two solar and two lunar: February 17 (annular solar), March 3 (total lunar), August 12 (total solar), August 28 (partial lunar). 2027 has five eclipses, two solar and three lunar: February 6 (annular solar), February 20 (penumbral lunar), July 18 (penumbral lunar), August 2 (total solar), August 17 (penumbral lunar).

Next eclipse

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No eclipse tonight. This is the next one:

Annular solar eclipse

Saturday, February 6, 2027

The Moon is too far to cover the Sun, so a bright ring of sunlight stays around it.

Maximum 11:00 a.m. EST · 8:00 a.m. PST · 16:00 UTC

Sun and Moon at 17°39′ Aquarius, 3° from the North Node.

Where: The ring crosses Chile, Argentina and the coast of Uruguay, then the South Atlantic to Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. Partial phase seen from most of South America and most of Africa.

From the US: No. The Moon’s shadow misses the US.

Next one you can see from the US: Saturday, February 20, 2027, penumbral lunar (a faint dimming).

Next lunar eclipse: Feb 20, 2027, penumbral, in Virgo. Next blood moon (total lunar eclipse): Dec 31, 2028.

As of October 25, 2026. Times are Eastern, Pacific and UTC.

An eclipse happens when the Sun, the Moon and Earth line up closely enough for one to block the light reaching another: a solar eclipse at a new moon, when the Moon covers the Sun, and a lunar eclipse at a full moon, when the Moon moves into Earth's shadow.

SOLAR AT NEW MOONLUNAR AT FULL MOON

Eclipse dates 2026–2028: times, signs and where to see them

14 eclipses from January 2026, the first 4 already past. The next total solar eclipse is August 2, 2027; the next total lunar eclipse, a blood moon, is December 31, 2028.

Date and maximum	Eclipse	Sign	Where it can be seen	From the US
Feb 17, 2026 · past 7:12 a.m. EST · 4:12 a.m. PST · 12:12 UTC	Annular solar The ring lasted up to 2 minutes 20 seconds, but only over East Antarctica.	♒︎ Aquarius 28°55′, 11° from the North Node	The ring was visible only over East Antarctica. Southern Africa and the far south of Chile and Argentina saw a partial eclipse.Partial phase seen from parts of Africa.	No. The Moon’s shadow misses the US.
Mar 3, 2026 · past 6:34 a.m. EST · 3:34 a.m. PST · 11:34 UTC	Total lunar Totality lasted 58 minutes, and northwestern North America, northeast Asia and the central Pacific saw the whole of it.	♍︎ Virgo 12°51′, 4° from the South Node	Seen from all of North America, all of Australia and New Zealand, most of Asia and most of South America, wherever the Moon is up.	Yes, coast to coast.
Aug 12, 2026 · past 1:46 p.m. EDT · 10:46 a.m. PDT · 17:46 UTC	Total solar The first total solar eclipse on mainland Europe since 1999. Totality lasted up to 2 minutes 18 seconds off the west coast of Iceland.	♌︎ Leo 20°07′, 10° from the South Node	Totality crossed the Arctic, Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain, ending over the Balearic Islands.Partial phase seen from all of Europe, parts of North America and parts of Africa.	Partial only: New York 9% of the Sun covered; not from Miami, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle.
Aug 28, 2026 · past 12:13 a.m. EDT · 9:13 p.m. PDT · 04:13 UTC	Partial lunar A deep partial eclipse: at maximum Earth's shadow covered about 96% of the Moon, enough to turn it reddish.	♓︎ Pisces 4°51′, 5° from the North Node	Seen from all of North America, all of South America, all of Africa and all of Europe, wherever the Moon is up.	Yes, coast to coast.
Feb 6, 2027 11:00 a.m. EST · 8:00 a.m. PST · 16:00 UTC	Annular solar The ring lasts up to 7 minutes 51 seconds at the center of the path.	♒︎ Aquarius 17°39′, 3° from the North Node	The ring crosses Chile, Argentina and the coast of Uruguay, then the South Atlantic to Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria.Partial phase seen from most of South America and most of Africa.	No. The Moon’s shadow misses the US.
Feb 20, 2027 6:13 p.m. EST · 3:13 p.m. PST · 23:13 UTC	Penumbral lunar A penumbral eclipse that barely misses the dark inner shadow, so the Moon only dims on one edge.	♍︎ Virgo 1°58′, 12° from the South Node	Seen from all of South America, all of Europe, all of Africa, all of Asia, most of North America and parts of Australia and New Zealand, wherever the Moon is up.	Yes from New York, Miami, Chicago, Denver; not from Los Angeles, Seattle. The dimming is faint.
Jul 18, 2027 12:03 p.m. EDT · 9:03 a.m. PDT · 16:03 UTC	Penumbral lunar So shallow that the Moon only grazes the outer shadow, with nothing you could see. Some lists, timeanddate.com among them, do not count it as an eclipse.	♑︎ Capricorn 25°57′, 16° from the North Node	Nowhere in practice: the Moon only grazes the outer shadow.	No visible change anywhere.
Aug 2, 2027 6:07 a.m. EDT · 3:07 a.m. PDT · 10:07 UTC	Total solar The longest totality on land this century until 2114.	♌︎ Leo 9°55′, 2° from the South Node	Totality runs from southern Spain and Gibraltar across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt to Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia. Near Luxor it lasts 6 minutes 23 seconds.Partial phase seen from all of Europe, most of Africa, most of Asia and parts of North America.	No. The Moon’s shadow misses the US.
Aug 17, 2027 3:14 a.m. EDT · 12:14 a.m. PDT · 07:14 UTC	Penumbral lunar A penumbral eclipse seen across the Americas in the early hours; the dimming is faint.	♒︎ Aquarius 24°04′, 13° from the North Node	Seen from all of North America, all of South America, most of Australia and New Zealand, parts of Africa and parts of Europe, wherever the Moon is up.	Yes, coast to coast, though the dimming is faint.
Jan 11, 2028 11:13 p.m. EST · 8:13 p.m. PST · 04:13 UTC	Partial lunar A shallow partial eclipse: Earth's shadow covers only a sliver of the Moon's edge for about an hour.	♋︎ Cancer 21°33′, 11° from the South Node	Seen from all of North America, all of South America, all of Europe, most of Africa and parts of Asia, wherever the Moon is up.	Yes, coast to coast.
Jan 26, 2028 10:08 a.m. EST · 7:08 a.m. PST · 15:08 UTC	Annular solar The ring lasts up to 10 minutes 27 seconds. The path ends at sunset in southern Spain and Portugal.	♒︎ Aquarius 6°08′, 4° from the North Node	The ring crosses Ecuador, Peru, northern Brazil and French Guiana, then ends over Madeira, southern Portugal, northern Morocco and southern Spain.Partial phase seen from all of South America, most of North America, parts of Europe and parts of Africa.	Partial only: New York 3%, Miami 16%, Chicago 1%, Denver 6% of the Sun covered; not from Los Angeles, Seattle.
Jul 6, 2028 2:20 p.m. EDT · 11:20 a.m. PDT · 18:20 UTC	Partial lunar About a third of the Moon goes into Earth's shadow.	♑︎ Capricorn 15°15′, 8° from the North Node	Seen from all of Asia, all of Australia and New Zealand, all of Africa and parts of Europe, wherever the Moon is up.	No. The Moon is below the horizon across the US.
Jul 21, 2028 10:55 p.m. EDT · 7:55 p.m. PDT · 02:55 UTC	Total solar Totality passes over central Sydney for more than three minutes; the city's last total eclipse was in 1857.	♋︎ Cancer 29°46′, 7° from the South Node	Totality crosses Australia from the Kimberley through Sydney, then Queenstown and Dunedin in New Zealand.Partial phase seen from all of Australia and New Zealand and parts of Asia.	No. The Moon’s shadow misses the US.
Dec 31, 2028 11:52 a.m. EST · 8:52 a.m. PST · 16:52 UTC	Total lunar Totality lasts 71 minutes, on New Year's Eve in the Americas and New Year's Day in Asia and Australia.	♋︎ Cancer 10°34′, 4° from the South Node	Seen from all of Europe, all of Africa, all of Asia, all of Australia and New Zealand and parts of North America, wherever the Moon is up.	Yes from Seattle; not from New York, Miami, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles.

Times are for greatest eclipse, rounded to the minute, from the astronomy-engine ephemeris; they match Fred Espenak’s NASA eclipse tables within a minute (Espenak lists solar eclipses in Terrestrial Time, about 70 seconds ahead of UTC). Sign and degree are the Moon’s tropical position at that moment, the same convention as our horoscope pages; the node is the mean lunar node. “Where” comes from checking 46 reference cities on six continents; “From the US” from New York, Miami, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and Seattle. The path descriptions follow Espenak’s maps.

Visibility check

Can you see the eclipses from your city?

Type a city and pick it from the list. For every eclipse in the table we work out whether it happens while the Sun or the Moon is above your horizon, and at what local time.

Example, Chicago: 4 of the 10 coming eclipses can be seen, the first on February 20, 2027 (penumbral lunar). Type your own city for the full list with local times.

Solar eclipses: share of the Sun’s disk covered at maximum and the Sun’s height above the horizon, from astronomy-engine for your exact location. Lunar eclipses: the stretch of the eclipse when the Moon is above your horizon. Weather is not included. Cities from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).

Eclipse season 2026–2027: the pairs and their signs

Eclipses come in clusters called eclipse seasons. The Moon's orbit is tilted about 5° to Earth's, so most new and full moons pass above or below the Sun's path and nothing is blocked. Only when the Sun is near one of the two crossing points, the lunar nodes, can a new moon cover it or a full moon slip into Earth's shadow. The Sun reaches a node about every 173 days, which gives two seasons a year, each roughly 35 days long.

A season holds two eclipses two weeks apart, sometimes three, usually one solar and one lunar. That is why eclipses arrive in pairs, and astrologers read the solar and lunar eclipses of one season as one story.

Feb 17 – Mar 3, 2026: annular solar in Aquarius, then total lunar in Virgo.
Aug 12 – Aug 28, 2026: total solar in Leo, then partial lunar in Pisces.
Feb 6 – Feb 20, 2027: annular solar in Aquarius, then penumbral lunar in Virgo.
Jul 18 – Aug 17, 2027: penumbral lunar in Capricorn, then total solar in Leo, then penumbral lunar in Aquarius.
Jan 11 – Jan 26, 2028: partial lunar in Cancer, then annular solar in Aquarius.
Jul 6 – Jul 21, 2028: partial lunar in Capricorn, then total solar in Cancer.
Dec 31, 2028: total lunar in Cancer.

The nodes drift backward through the zodiac, one sign every year and a half or so, and the eclipses follow them. Astrologers name an eclipse series by that pair of opposite signs, the axis.

The mean North Node, the averaged position most astrology software and our node pages use, entered Pisces on January 29, 2025, then entered Aquarius on August 18, 2026, then enters Capricorn on March 7, 2028. The true node wobbles around it, so some calendars give dates a few weeks apart. By sign pair, the eclipses in this table fall like this, with links to the node sign behind each series:

Leo–Aquarius: 6 eclipses, Feb 17, 2026 to Jan 26, 2028 · North Node in Aquarius
Virgo–Pisces: 3 eclipses, Mar 3, 2026 to Feb 20, 2027 · North Node in Pisces
Cancer–Capricorn: 5 eclipses, Jul 18, 2027 to Dec 31, 2028 · North Node in Capricorn

What eclipses mean in astrology, sign by sign

In astrology an eclipse is a new or full moon with extra weight. A solar eclipse is read as a beginning that arrives on its own schedule: something starts, often sooner than you planned for it. A lunar eclipse is read as an ending or a release, the point where a situation that has been building for months comes to a head.

Astrologers also look at which node the eclipse sits near. An eclipse close to the North Node is read as pulling you toward something new and unfamiliar; one near the South Node as clearing out what you have outgrown.

For your own chart, the house matters more than the sign. Count from your Sun sign as the 1st house, the way sun-sign horoscopes do, and each eclipse lands in one area of life. An eclipse in your own sign or the opposite one is the case astrologers watch most closely, and more so if it falls within a few degrees of your Sun. This is tradition, and no one can tell you what an eclipse will do. It only shows where astrologers look.

For the coming eclipses on the Leo–Aquarius axis, these are the houses they light up for each Sun sign:

Sun sign	Houses	Areas of life in the tradition
♈︎ Aries	5th and 11th	romance, kids, creativity and fun; friends, groups and plans
♉︎ Taurus	4th and 10th	home and family; career and reputation
♊︎ Gemini	3rd and 9th	talk, siblings, neighbors and short trips; travel, study and beliefs
♋︎ Cancer	2nd and 8th	money, income and what you own; shared money, debt and intimacy
♌︎ Leo	1st and 7th	you, your body and how you come across; partners, marriage and contracts
♍︎ Virgo	6th and 12th	work routines and health habits; rest, privacy and what goes on behind the scenes
♎︎ Libra	5th and 11th	romance, kids, creativity and fun; friends, groups and plans
♏︎ Scorpio	4th and 10th	home and family; career and reputation
♐︎ Sagittarius	3rd and 9th	talk, siblings, neighbors and short trips; travel, study and beliefs
♑︎ Capricorn	2nd and 8th	money, income and what you own; shared money, debt and intimacy
♒︎ Aquarius	1st and 7th	you, your body and how you come across; partners, marriage and contracts
♓︎ Pisces	6th and 12th	work routines and health habits; rest, privacy and what goes on behind the scenes

Your houses

Where each eclipse falls for your sign

Example: Aquarius, the sign of the next eclipse.

Your Sun sign: Aquarius

Add a birth date to check whether an eclipse lands within 5° of your Sun or the point opposite it, the case astrologers watch most closely.

Feb 6, 2027annular solar, Aquarius1st houseyou, your body and how you come across
Feb 20, 2027penumbral lunar, Virgo8th houseshared money, debt and intimacy
Jul 18, 2027penumbral lunar, Capricorn12th houserest, privacy and what goes on behind the scenes
Aug 2, 2027total solar, Leo7th housepartners, marriage and contracts
Aug 17, 2027penumbral lunar, Aquarius1st houseyou, your body and how you come across
Jan 11, 2028partial lunar, Cancer6th housework routines and health habits
Jan 26, 2028annular solar, Aquarius1st houseyou, your body and how you come across
Jul 6, 2028partial lunar, Capricorn12th houserest, privacy and what goes on behind the scenes
Jul 21, 2028total solar, Cancer6th housework routines and health habits
Dec 31, 2028total lunar, Cancer6th housework routines and health habits

Total, annular, partial and penumbral: what you will see

A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon is close enough to Earth to cover the Sun completely. Inside a narrow path, usually under 300 km wide, the sky goes dark for a few minutes and the Sun's corona appears. An annular eclipse happens when the Moon is farther away and looks a little smaller than the Sun, so a ring of sunlight stays visible around it, the "ring of fire". A hybrid eclipse switches between the two along its path; the next one is November 14, 2031. Everyone outside the central path sees a partial eclipse, a bite out of the Sun.

A total lunar eclipse puts the whole Moon inside Earth's dark inner shadow, the umbra. Sunlight bent through Earth's atmosphere still reaches it, so it turns copper or red: the "blood moon". In a partial lunar eclipse only part of the Moon enters the umbra. In a penumbral eclipse the Moon crosses only the faint outer shadow and dims so slightly that most people notice nothing.

A lunar eclipse can be seen from the whole night side of Earth, from anywhere the Moon is above the horizon. A solar eclipse can be seen only where the Moon's shadow falls, which is why the same total solar eclipse can be a once-in-a-lifetime event in one country and invisible in the next.

How to watch a solar eclipse safely

Looking at the Sun during a partial or annular eclipse, or during the partial phases of a total one, can cause serious eye injury. The American Astronomical Society, together with NASA, says the only safe way to look directly at the Sun is through filters made to the ISO 12312-2 standard, such as eclipse glasses or a handheld solar viewer. Ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe.

Inside the path of a total eclipse you can take the glasses off only while the Moon covers the Sun completely, and put them back on as soon as the bright edge returns. Never look through a camera, binoculars or a telescope without a proper filter on the front of it. A pinhole projector, a small hole in a card that throws an image of the Sun onto the ground, is a safe way to watch without any glasses.

A lunar eclipse needs no protection at all. NASA notes that, unlike a solar eclipse, it is safe to watch without any eye protection; binoculars only make the view better.

Full guidance: American Astronomical Society, How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely.

Questions

When is the next solar eclipse?

The next solar eclipse is the annular one on Saturday, February 6, 2027, at 11:00 a.m. EST (16:00 UTC), in Aquarius. The ring crosses Chile, Argentina and the coast of Uruguay, then the South Atlantic to Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. From the US: No. The Moon’s shadow misses the US.

When is the next lunar eclipse?

The next lunar eclipse is the penumbral one on Saturday, February 20, 2027, at 6:13 p.m. EST (23:13 UTC), in Virgo. Seen from all of South America, all of Europe, all of Africa, all of Asia, most of North America and parts of Australia and New Zealand, wherever the Moon is up. From the US: Yes from New York, Miami, Chicago, Denver; not from Los Angeles, Seattle. The dimming is faint.

Will the next lunar eclipses be visible in North America?

Feb 20, 2027 (penumbral): yes from New York, Miami, Chicago, Denver; not from Los Angeles, Seattle. The dimming is faint; Aug 17, 2027 (penumbral): yes, across the US; Jan 11, 2028 (partial): yes, across the US; Jul 6, 2028 (partial): no. A lunar eclipse is visible from wherever the Moon is above the horizon at the time, so the whole night side of Earth sees the same eclipse.

What zodiac signs are affected by the eclipses?

In astrology every eclipse touches all twelve signs through one of their houses, but the signs the eclipses fall in are read as most affected, then the other signs of the same mode. For the coming Leo–Aquarius eclipses, that means Leo and Aquarius first, then Taurus and Scorpio, the other fixed signs. A total lunar eclipse, the blood moon, is read the same way: the sign the Moon is in and the sign of the Sun opposite it.

Do lunar eclipses happen during a full moon?

Yes, always. A lunar eclipse needs the Moon on the far side of Earth from the Sun, which is what a full moon is. A solar eclipse needs the Moon between Earth and the Sun, so it always falls on a new moon. Most full and new moons pass without an eclipse because the Moon's orbit is tilted and the three bodies miss lining up.

How long does an eclipse season last?

About 35 days, the time the Sun spends close enough to a lunar node for eclipses to happen. Seasons come about every 173 days, so there are two a year, and a few years fit the start of a third in late December.

Sources

Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
NASA GSFC: Solar Eclipses 2021–2030: Fred Espenak’s table, used to check our eclipse dates and times
NASA GSFC: Lunar Eclipses 2021–2030: the same check for lunar eclipses
American Astronomical Society: How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely: eye-safety guidance issued with NASA, NSF and NOAA
How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics

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