Solar and Lunar Eclipse Calendar: Every Eclipse from 2025 to 2035

A solar eclipse always happens at a New Moon and a lunar eclipse at a Full Moon, but not every New or Full Moon brings one: the Moon’s orbit is tilted about five degrees to the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun, so the three bodies line up only when a New or Full Moon falls close to where the two planes cross. Below are the eclipse times calculated by our engine, all given in UTC, with the type and zodiac position of each one.

Lunar eclipse calendar 2025–2035

A lunar eclipse can be seen from the whole half of Earth where it is night at the time, weather permitting, so your chances of seeing one are far better than for a solar eclipse. Convert the UTC time to your local time: if the Moon is above your horizon then, you can see it.

Solar eclipse calendar 2025–2035

“Type” is the fullest form of the eclipse seen anywhere on Earth. A total or annular eclipse is visible only along a narrow path; elsewhere people see a partial eclipse or nothing at all. Always use certified eclipse glasses to watch a solar eclipse, and never look straight at the Sun.

The kinds of solar and lunar eclipse

Every eclipse from 1950 to 2050 calculated by our engine.

• Total solar eclipse (32.7%): the Moon covers the Sun completely, day turns dark and the corona becomes visible.
• Annular solar eclipse (31.4%): the Moon is farther from Earth and looks smaller than the Sun, so it cannot cover it and a ring of light remains.
• Partial solar eclipse (35.9%): the Moon’s umbra misses Earth, and everywhere sees only a bite taken out of the Sun.
• Total lunar eclipse (38.7%): the whole Moon enters Earth’s umbra and turns a dull red, popularly called a blood moon.
• Partial lunar eclipse (25.2%): only part of the Moon enters the umbra, as if a bite had been taken out of it.
• Penumbral lunar eclipse (36.1%): the Moon passes only through Earth’s penumbra and dims slightly, which is hard to notice with the naked eye.

There is also a rare hybrid eclipse (total in some places and annular in others during the same eclipse); our calculation files it under either total or annular.

Eclipse seasons: solar and lunar eclipses come in pairs

A New or Full Moon has to be near a node for an eclipse to happen, and the Sun passes each of the two nodes once a year, with an “eclipse season” of about a month around each passage. An eclipse season holds at least one solar and one lunar eclipse, two weeks apart; by our calculation, 100% of solar eclipses have a lunar eclipse within two weeks either side. Two eclipse seasons are about 172 days apart, a little less than half a year, so eclipse dates slip about twenty days earlier each year, and after a little over eighteen years (the Saros cycle) a similar eclipse comes round again.

How astrology reads eclipses

Astrology treats a solar eclipse as a stronger New Moon and a lunar eclipse as a stronger Full Moon, because they happen near the lunar nodes, and the North and South Nodes are tied to life direction in astrology. Commonly said:

• A solar eclipse is like a bigger beginning, with a theme that runs for half a year or more, not just a month.
• A lunar eclipse is like a bigger ending: some matters come to a close or come out into the open around then.
• Where it lands: which house of your chart the eclipse falls in, and whether it touches your Sun, Moon or Ascendant (within a few degrees), decides how much it has to do with you. Most eclipses pass most people by without anything special.
• People born near an eclipse have the Sun or Moon close to the nodes in their chart, and astrological tradition says they feel their direction in life more intensely. The tool above finds the eclipses nearest your birth.

The ancients took eclipses as bad omens because they could not predict them. Now every one can be calculated to the second, and it is simply a regular event in the sky. Take the astrological reading as a moment to look back over your life; there is no reason to be afraid or to put off what needs doing.