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The next 25 years of solar eclipses -Everything from 2026 to 2050

Thirty-nine total, annular and hybrid solar eclipses will cross the Earth between 2026 and 2050: seventeen total, nineteen annular, and three hybrid. The table below lists every one, drawn from NASA and Fred Espenak's eclipse predictions, each with an interactive path map. A handful of the annular and hybrid eclipses in this period are non-central, meaning the Moon's shadow axis narrowly misses the centre of the Earth; for those, no location actually sees a full ring or complete totality, and we've noted that plainly rather than listing a duration that nobody on the ground would experience.

Date	Type	Max duration	Path of totality / annularity	Saros family	Map
17 Feb 2026	Annular	2 min 20 sec	Antarctica only. Partial across southern Argentina and Chile, and southern Africa.	121 — 61 of 71 944–2206	Interactive map
12 Aug 2026	Total	2 min 18 sec	Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and a small corner of north-eastern Portugal.	126 — 48 of 72 1179–2459	Interactive map
6 Feb 2027	Annular	7 min 51 sec	Chile, Argentina, and the South Atlantic.	131 — 51 of 70 1125–2369	Interactive map
2 Aug 2027	Total	6 min 23 sec	Morocco, Spain, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Somalia.	136 — 38 of 71 1360–2622	Interactive map
26 Jan 2028	Annular	10 min 27 sec	Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, French Guiana, Portugal, and Spain.	141 — 24 of 70 1613–2857	Interactive map
22 Jul 2028	Total	5 min 10 sec	Australia and New Zealand.	146 — 28 of 76 1541–2893	Interactive map
1 Jun 2030	Annular	5 min 21 sec	Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Russia.	128 — 59 of 73 984–2282	Interactive map
25 Nov 2030	Total	3 min 44 sec	Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, and southern Australia.	133 — 46 of 72 1219–2499	Interactive map
21 May 2031	Annular	5 min 26 sec	Angola, Zambia, DR Congo, Tanzania, India, and Sri Lanka.	138 — 32 of 70 1472–2716	Interactive map
14 Nov 2031	Hybrid	1 min 8 sec	Annular over Panama; a wide partial eclipse spans the Pacific and the Americas.	143 — 24 of 72 1617–2897	Interactive map
9 May 2032	Annular	22 sec	No land path — the ring is visible only over open ocean. Partial from southern South America and southern Africa.	148 — 22 of 75 1653–2987	No path to map
30 Mar 2033	Total	2 min 37 sec	Russian Far East and Alaska.	120 — 62 of 71 933–2195	Interactive map
20 Mar 2034	Total	4 min 9 sec	Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, and Afghanistan.	130 — 53 of 73 1096–2394	Interactive map
12 Sep 2034	Annular	2 min 58 sec	Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.	135 — 40 of 71 1331–2593	Interactive map
9 Mar 2035	Annular	48 sec	New Zealand.	140 — 30 of 71 1512–2774	Interactive map
2 Sep 2035	Total	2 min 54 sec	Northern China, North Korea, and Japan.	145 — 23 of 77 1639–3009	Interactive map
13 Jul 2037	Total	3 min 58 sec	Australia and New Zealand.	127 — 59 of 82 991–2452	Interactive map
5 Jan 2038	Annular	3 min 18 sec	Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.	132 — 47 of 71 1208–2470	Interactive map
2 Jul 2038	Annular	1 min	Colombia, Venezuela, Grenada, Barbados, Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Mali.	137 — 37 of 70 1389–2633	Interactive map
26 Dec 2038	Total	2 min 18 sec	Australia and New Zealand.	142 — 24 of 72 1624–2904	Interactive map
21 Jun 2039	Annular	4 min 5 sec	Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia.	147 — 24 of 80 1624–3049	Interactive map
15 Dec 2039	Total	1 min 51 sec	Antarctica.	152 — 14 of 70 1805–3049	Interactive map
30 Apr 2041	Total	1 min 51 sec	Angola, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia.	129 — 53 of 80 1103–2528	Interactive map
25 Oct 2041	Annular	6 min 7 sec	Mongolia, north-eastern China, North Korea, Japan, Marshall Islands, and Kiribati.	134 — 45 of 71 1248–2510	Interactive map
20 Apr 2042	Total	4 min 51 sec	Western Indonesia, eastern Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines.	139 — 31 of 71 1501–2763	Interactive map
14 Oct 2042	Annular	7 min 44 sec	Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and East Timor.	144 — 18 of 70 1736–2980	Interactive map
9 Apr 2043	Total	brief, grazing path	A narrow, non-central total path over the Russian Far East.	149 — 22 of 71 1664–2926	Interactive map
3 Oct 2043	Annular	no true ring	Non-central; no location sees a full ring. Partial from Madagascar, Antarctica, and south-western Australia.	154 — 8 of 71 1917–3179	No path to map
28 Feb 2044	Annular	no true ring	Non-central; no location sees a full ring. Partial from Antarctica and South America.	121 — 62 of 71 944–2206	No path to map
23 Aug 2044	Total	2 min 4 sec	Greenland, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.	126 — 49 of 72 1179–2459	Interactive map
16 Feb 2045	Annular	7 min 47 sec	New Zealand, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, and Kiribati.	131 — 52 of 70 1125–2369	Interactive map
12 Aug 2045	Total	6 min 6 sec	California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.	136 — 39 of 71 1360–2622	Interactive map
5 Feb 2046	Annular	9 min 42 sec	Eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, and Hawaii.	141 — 25 of 70 1613–2857	Interactive map
2 Aug 2046	Total	4 min 51 sec	Eastern Brazil, Angola, the Namibian Panhandle, Botswana, South Africa, and Eswatini.	146 — 29 of 76 1541–2893	Interactive map
11 Jun 2048	Annular	4 min 58 sec	US Midwest from Colorado to Michigan, eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Baltic states and Belarus, then across Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia to Pakistan.	128 — 60 of 73 984–2282	Interactive map
5 Dec 2048	Total	3 min 28 sec	Chile, Argentina, Namibia, and Botswana.	133 — 47 of 72 1219–2499	Interactive map
31 May 2049	Annular	4 min 45 sec	Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname, then Cape Verde and West Africa (Senegal to Nigeria) into Central Africa (Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo, and Tanzania).	138 — 33 of 70 1472–2716	Interactive map
25 Nov 2049	Hybrid	38 sec	Total over Indonesia; annular over Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Micronesia.	143 — 25 of 72 1617–2897	Interactive map
20 May 2050	Hybrid	no true path	Non-central; no location sees a full total or annular phase. Partial from New Zealand, eastern Oceania, and western South America.	148 — 23 of 75 1653–2987	No path to map

North America's next total solar eclipse, after the widely seen crossings of 2017 and 2024, will not occur until 30 March 2033, when the path of totality crosses Alaska and the Russian Far East. The next one to cross the contiguous United States is 12 August 2045, running from California through to Louisiana.

Planning to be in Spain for the 12 August 2026 eclipse? We recommend the public viewing event at La Camperona, León, a 1,603 m summit directly on the path of totality with an open horizon and free admission.

What 'duration' means here

The durations above are the maximum length of totality or annularity anywhere along the eclipse's path, calculated at the point of greatest eclipse. Away from that point, the dark shadow moves faster across the ground, so totality is shorter, sometimes by a wide margin, the closer you are to the edge of the path.

These figures are compiled from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center eclipse predictions and cross-checked against national observatory sources. Precise local circumstances, including exact start and end times for any specific town, should be checked against a dedicated eclipse calculator closer to the date, since even small position changes shift the numbers.

The "Interactive map" links use Xavier Jubier's Google Maps eclipse tool. Jubier is a member of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses, and his path calculations are widely used by observatories and eclipse-chasing sources across the web. Click anywhere within a path on his maps to get the precise local start, maximum and end times for that exact spot.

The Saros family column shows which Saros series each eclipse belongs to, which member it is within that series (e.g. "48 of 72" means the 48th of 72 eclipses the family will ever produce), and the calendar years in which the family began and will end. See our Eclipse Education page for what a Saros family actually is and how it evolves over its lifetime.