When is the next eclipse? Solar and lunar eclipses 2023
Find out when the next solar and lunar eclipses are occurring, and where you can see them.
When is the next eclipse? Once one spectacular solar or lunar eclipse is over, this is the question on everyone's lips.
Luckily astronomers know exactly when and where the next eclipses will be taking place, and which parts of the world will get the best views.
The last eclipse visible from the UK was a partial solar eclipse on 25 October 2022.
The next eclipse is a total lunar eclipse visible on 8 November 2022, but this eclipse will not be visible from the UK.
Here we'll look at all the eclipses that will be visible from Earth in 2022, including how to get the best views, and what you can expect to see.
This is everything you need to know about when, where and for how long each solar eclipse and lunar eclipse will occur in 2022.
Solar and lunar eclipses in 2022
Every solar and lunar eclipse up until the end of 2026.
8 November 2022
Type: Total Lunar Eclipse
A near-identical event to the total lunar eclipse six months prior, tonight will see a 1 hour 25 minute lunar totality that will be best seen from the west coast of the U.S. Australia and southeast Asia will also be in a good position. It won’t be visible in Europe or Africa.
Read our full guide to the 8 November total lunar eclipse.
Eclipses beyond 2023
20 April 2023: Western Australia
Type: Total Solar Eclipse
Would you travel halfway across the world to experience one minute of totality? For eclipse chasers, that's more than enough, so the tiny Exmouth Peninsula – the only part of Australia crossed by the path of totality – is sure to be bursting with observers from around the world. Exmouth is also the place to swim with whalesharks, the ocean's biggest fish at 40ft.
For more Aussie stargazing, read our guide to astronomy in Australia.
14 October 2023: North & South America
Type: Annular Solar Eclipse
This annular eclipse crosses Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and origin, as well as parts of Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia and Brazil. Crater Lake in Oregon, or the Mayan temple of Edzna on the Yucatan Peninsula are both in the firing line.
8 April 2024: Mexico, US & Canada
Type: Total Solar Eclipse
Two total solar eclipses in seven years?! Although it happens in Spring where clear skies are certainly not guaranteed, this four-minute totality is set to top 2017's event. The Path of Totality passes over Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, New York and Vermont, and Canada. Remarkably, one area around Carbondale, Illinois will get a second go at totality, having already seen it in 2017.
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2 October 2024: Easter Island & Chile
Type: Annular Solar Eclipse
Although this is also visible in Patagonia on southern Chile's Pacific coast, this Ring of Fire would be best enjoyed among the monoliths of Easter Island. This South Pacific island, over 2,000 miles from mainland South America, has an astronomical allure all of its own. Huge stone statues known as Moai face inland from every beach, and are said to stare at the stars.
14 March 2025
Type: Total Lunar Eclipse
An hour-long ‘Blood Moon’ will be visible to all in the U.S. and Canada, and South America. The west coast of North Africa will receive a glimpse of an eclipsed moonset and the west coast of Australia will see an eclipsed moonrise.
29 March 2025: the UK and Europe
Type: Partial Solar Eclipse
As much as 47% of the Sun will be blocked by the Moon from the U.K. during this event. It will be visible most easily in Europe, though extreme southeastern Atlantic Canada will be able to try for an 84% eclipsed sunrise.
7 September 2025
Type: Total Lunar Eclipse
A 1 hour 22 minute lunar totality will be on show to Africa, India, China and Australia as the entire Indian Ocean gets its decade-best view of a ‘Blood Moon’.
21 September 2025: New Zealand
Type: Partial Solar Eclipse
An eclipsed sunrise that sees about 72% of the Sun blocked by the Moon is going to be visible from New Zealand – and that’s it!
17 February 2026: Southern Chile
Type: Annular Solar Eclipse
About 96% of the Sun’s center will be obscured for just 2 minutes 20 seconds, but only to a remote part of Antarctica. Southern Chile will get the merest of partial solar eclipses. This will be an eclipse almost exclusively for penguins and whales.
3 March 2026
Type: Total Lunar Eclipse
About 58 minutes of lunar totality will be observable from the U.S., Australia and East Asia, though since the Moon’s southern limb only just makes it inside Earth’s shadow, our satellite may remain fairly bright.
12 August 2026: Iceland and Spain
Type: Total Solar Eclipse
A sky full of auroras during totality in Iceland!? That is very unlikely. More probable is that the ‘Land of Fire and Ice’ will be clouded-out. However, while a 2 minutes 10 seconds totality will occur 25º above the horizon from Iceland’s Snæfellsnes peninsula, in northern Spain it will be just 10º up, and decreasing to a risky eclipsed sunset from Majorca. Wherever you watch from you’ll be on tenterhooks for clear skies.
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