Partial Solar Eclipse of June 12, 2029

Greatest eclipse 04:05 UTC. Check the local times for your own place below.

Local circumstances

Will you see it, and when?

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Pick a place above and this panel will show whether the eclipse is visible from there, and the local clock time of every phase.

Some of the eclipse visible

Shading is a sampled visibility map: the same Besselian solution evaluated every 3 degrees of latitude and longitude, so its edges are stepped rather than exact. It is not drawn any finer than it is computed. The narrow dark band is not sampled at all: it is the published central path, plotted from NASA's own path table. This eclipse has no central path: the Moon's dark shadow misses Earth entirely, so nowhere sees a total or annular phase.

Contact times are solved for your coordinates from the polynomial Besselian elements NASA publishes for this eclipse, not interpolated from the greatest-eclipse instant. Terrestrial Time was converted to UTC with the published 77.2 s value of Delta-T. Source: Five Millennium Catalog, Besselian elements. Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC. Full method and limits in our methodology.

Partial Solar Eclipse of June 12, 2029

Interactive orbit lab

See why this eclipse stays partial

Move time through this partial event, then hover, focus, or tap any labeled object. The light direction and shadow order are physical; sizes and distances are compressed for clarity.

Partial solar event model

Sun → Moon → EarthPartial phaseThe discs overlap, but their centers never align and no central phase occurs.

View at greatest phasePartial eclipse

Moon

The Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, but the disc centers remain offset. It covers only part of the Sun from every viewing location.

Hover, focus, or tap a body or shadow to inspect it.

Partial solar eclipseThe closest approach is constrained to this cataloged event type.

Move through the eclipse alignment

Umbra misses Earth

The darkest cone passes beside Earth, so there is no central path.

Penumbra

The lighter outer shadow reaches a wider area where only part of the Sun is blocked.

Why not every month?

The Moon's orbit is tilted about 5.1°. An eclipse needs new or full moon near a node, where the two orbital planes cross.

At maximum, the Moon and Sun overlap without their centers aligning. No location reaches totality or annularity, and certified eclipse glasses are required throughout.

Key facts

Type	Partial solar eclipse
Date	June 12, 2029
Greatest eclipse	04:05 UTC (the panel above shows your own local times)
Visible from	the Arctic, Scandinavia, Alaska, northern Asia, and northern Canada
Saros series	118
Gamma	1.2943(how far the shadow axis passes from Earth's centre, in Earth radii)
Sun's altitude at greatest eclipse	0 ° above the horizon

What you will see

The Moon takes a bite out of the Sun without ever covering it completely. The partial eclipse is visible across the Arctic, Scandinavia, Alaska, northern Asia, and northern Canada. Proper eclipse glasses are required for the entire event.

To follow the day and night line on the date of the eclipse, open the live globeand use its time scrubber: the eclipse happens along the Moon's shadow track through the daytime side .

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Catalog data from NASA GSFC (Five Millennium Catalog of SolarEclipses), Terrestrial Time converted to UTC with the Delta-T value published for this eclipse. Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC. Local contact times are solved for your coordinates from the published Besselian elements. How we compute this.