Partial solar eclipse, 2 December 1956

Solar eclipses, 1900–2100

Every solar eclipse for two centuries, each one drawn on the map with the ground it passes over.

• Pick an eclipse from the list, or step through them with the arrows — the ← and → keys work too.
• Click the map anywhere to see when the eclipse happens there, how much of the Sun is covered, and how long totality lasts.
• Choose a place and the list narrows to the eclipses you could see from it — all of them, or only the ones that go total.
• Press play to watch the shadow and the day/night line cross the Earth.
• The cog changes the basemap, the colours, and whether times are shown in UT or on your own clock.

Settings stay in this browser; nothing about you is sent anywhere. Map tiles are fetched from OpenFreeMap as you pan.

Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA’s GSFC, from the Besselian elements of the Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.