Almanac · Eclipses
Total lunar eclipse, 3 Mar 2026
The whole Moon passes into the Earth’s full shadow and turns copper, seen from everywhere it is up. Greatest eclipse was on Tue 3 Mar 2026 at 11:34 UTC. The next eclipse of the Moon is the penumbral lunar eclipse of 20 Feb 2027.
- Greatest eclipse The Moon overhead at 6.4°N 170.8°W
- Magnitude 1.150 Umbral; penumbral 2.183
- Longest Totality 58m The same from everywhere the Moon is up
Where to watch it
Honolulu, USA sees all of it with the Moon highest of any city on our list, 70° up at greatest eclipse. The Moon reaches the Earth’s full shadow at 23:50 local time (HST).
The Sky Map opens in Honolulu at 23:40 HST 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.
- Honolulu, USA All of it, the Moon 70° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends HST Watch from here
- Tokyo, Japan All of it, the Moon 35° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+9 Watch from here
- Sydney, Australia All of it, the Moon 35° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+11 Watch from here
- Los Angeles, USA All of it, the Moon 33° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends PST Watch from here
- Budta, Philippines All of it, the Moon 25° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+8 Watch from here
- Calgary, Canada All of it, the Moon 25° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends MST Watch from here
- Harbin, China All of it, the Moon 23° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+8 Watch from here
- Victoria de Durango, Mexico All of it, the Moon 23° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends CST Watch from here
- Shanghai, China All of it, the Moon 21° up at greatest eclipse Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+8 Watch from here
- Delhi, India Part of it: the Moon rises during it Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+5:30 Watch from here
- Jakarta, Indonesia Part of it: the Moon rises during it Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+7 Watch from here
- New York, USA Part of it: the Moon sets during it Begins · Deepest · Ends EST Watch from here
- Lima, Peru Part of it: the Moon sets during it Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT-5 Watch from here
The eclipse, contact by contact
| Moment | UTC |
|---|---|
| Enters the outer shadow (penumbra) | 08:45 |
| Enters the full shadow (umbra): partial eclipse begins | 09:50 |
| Totality begins | 11:05 |
| Greatest eclipse | 11:34 |
| Totality ends | 12:03 |
| Leaves the full shadow: partial eclipse ends | 13:17 |
| Leaves the outer shadow | 14:23 |
In the outer shadow for 5h39m, in the full shadow for 3h27m, and wholly inside it for 58m.
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 115°E to 98°W; greatest eclipse from 90°E to 72°W |
| 45°N | The whole umbral phase from 119°E to 102°W; greatest eclipse from 95°E to 76°W |
| 30°N | The whole umbral phase from 122°E to 104°W; greatest eclipse from 97°E to 79°W |
| 15°N | The whole umbral phase from 124°E to 106°W; greatest eclipse from 99°E to 81°W |
| 0° | The whole umbral phase from 126°E to 107°W; greatest eclipse from 101°E to 82°W |
| 15°S | The whole umbral phase from 128°E to 109°W; greatest eclipse from 102°E to 84°W |
| 30°S | The whole umbral phase from 130°E to 111°W; greatest eclipse from 105°E to 86°W |
| 45°S | The whole umbral phase from 133°E to 114°W; greatest eclipse from 108°E to 89°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)