Almanac · Eclipses
Total lunar eclipse, 7 Sep 2025
The whole Moon passes into the Earth’s full shadow and turns copper, seen from everywhere it is up. Greatest eclipse was on Sun 7 Sep 2025 at 18:11 UTC. The next eclipse of the Moon is the penumbral lunar eclipse of 20 Feb 2027.
- Greatest eclipse The Moon overhead at 6°S 86.7°E
- Magnitude 1.361 Umbral; penumbral 2.344
- Longest Totality 1h22m The same from everywhere the Moon is up
Where to watch it
Medan, Indonesia sees all of it with the Moon highest of any city on our list, 74° up at greatest eclipse. The Moon reaches the Earth’s full shadow at 23:26 local time (GMT+7).
The Sky Map opens in Medan at 23:16 GMT+7 there, on the Moon: press play on the time bar to watch it unfold. Your own place stays as it is.
City by city
An eclipse of the Moon is the same sight from everywhere the Moon is up. The biggest cities on our list that see all of it, spread round that side of the world, the Moon highest first, then some that see part. Every time is the city’s own clock.
- Medan, Indonesia All of it, the Moon 74° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+7 Watch from here
- Jakarta, Indonesia All of it, the Moon 70° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+7 Watch from here
- Mumbai, India All of it, the Moon 61° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+5:30 Watch from here
- Dhaka, Bangladesh All of it, the Moon 59° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+6 Watch from here
- Chengdu, China All of it, the Moon 49° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+8 Watch from here
- Shanghai, China All of it, the Moon 39° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+8 Watch from here
- Cairo, Egypt All of it, the Moon 25° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+3 Watch from here
- Tokyo, Japan All of it, the Moon 24° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+9 Watch from here
- Moscow, Russia All of it, the Moon 15° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+3 Watch from here
- Lagos, Nigeria Part of it: the Moon rises during it Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+1 Watch from here
- Kinshasa, DR Congo Part of it: the Moon rises during it Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+1 Watch from here
- London, UK Part of it: the Moon rises during it Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+1 Watch from here
- Cape Town, South Africa Part of it: the Moon rises during it Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+2 Watch from here
The eclipse, contact by contact
| Moment | UTC |
|---|---|
| Enters the outer shadow (penumbra) | 15:28 |
| Enters the full shadow (umbra): partial eclipse begins | 16:26 |
| Totality begins | 17:30 |
| Greatest eclipse | 18:11 |
| Totality ends | 18:52 |
| Leaves the full shadow: partial eclipse ends | 19:56 |
| Leaves the outer shadow | 20:54 |
In the outer shadow for 5h27m, in the full shadow for 3h29m, and wholly inside it for 1h22m.
Latitude by latitude
Along each latitude, the longitudes with the Moon above the horizon for the whole time it is in the full shadow, and those with it up at the greatest moment. An eclipse of the Moon looks the same from everywhere it is up.
| Latitude | Seen |
|---|---|
| 60°N | The whole umbral phase from 36°E to 139°E; greatest eclipse from 10°E to 164°E |
| 45°N | The whole umbral phase from 30°E to 144°E; greatest eclipse from 5°E to 169°E |
| 30°N | The whole umbral phase from 27°E to 147°E; greatest eclipse from 2°E to 172°E |
| 15°N | The whole umbral phase from 25°E to 148°E; greatest eclipse from 0° to 174°E |
| 0° | The whole umbral phase from 24°E to 150°E; greatest eclipse from 2°W to 175°E |
| 15°S | The whole umbral phase from 22°E to 151°E; greatest eclipse from 3°W to 177°E |
| 30°S | The whole umbral phase from 20°E to 153°E; greatest eclipse from 5°W to 179°E |
| 45°S | The whole umbral phase from 17°E to 155°E; greatest eclipse from 7°W to 179°W |
How we worked it out: the Moon’s and the Sun’s places are Meeus’s solar and lunar theories, the ones the map draws. The Earth’s shadow is sized by Danjon’s rule, as NASA’s catalogue has it, and each contact is the instant the Moon’s edge crosses the shadow’s, found to the second. Each latitude is walked 1° of longitude at a time, the Moon’s altitude asked every 15 minutes. The tests hold these to NASA’s Five Millennium Canon of eclipses: instants within a few minutes, magnitudes within a few thousandths, the phases within two minutes.
- F. Espenak and J. Meeus, NASA Five Millennium Canon of Solar and Lunar Eclipses, which the tests hold these to
- J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, ch. 25 (the Sun) and ch. 47 (the Moon), as the map draws them
- Danjon’s rule for the Earth’s shadow, as NASA’s lunar eclipse catalogue applies it (NASA/TP-2009-214172, §1.3)