Annular solar eclipse of 26 January 2028
Up to 10 minutes 28 seconds of annularity, along a band crossing Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana, Portugal, Spain and Gibraltar. Greatest eclipse falls at 15:07:59 UTC on 26 January 2028.
Open 26 January 2028 in the tracker The interactive map, the shadow at any moment, and the figures for wherever you are.
The numbers
- Type
- Annular
- Greatest eclipse
- 26 January 2028, 15:07:59 UTC
- Longest annularity
- 10 minutes 28 seconds
- Longest from
- 0.79°N 54.75°W, French Guiana
- Path width there
- 327 km
- Greatest eclipse over
- 2.98°N 51.62°W
- Shadow first touches the Earth
- 13:18:41 UTC
- Shadow leaves the Earth
- 16:56:41 UTC
- Gamma
- 0.3904
Where the path goes
The shadow touches the Earth at 13:18:41 UTC and leaves it at 16:56:41 UTC. In between, the antumbra crosses Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana, Portugal, Spain and Gibraltar. Outside that band the eclipse is partial over a far larger area — several thousand kilometres either side — and the further from the line, the less of the Sun is covered.
- Ecuador
- Peru
- Brazil
- Suriname
- French Guiana
- Portugal
- Spain
- Gibraltar
In the order the shadow reaches them. A country is listed only where the annular phase is genuinely visible from land within it, with the Sun above the horizon — not merely where the band comes close.
Looking at it safely
The Sun is as dangerous during a 99% partial eclipse as on any other day, and the remaining sliver is bright enough to burn a hole in a retina without hurting at the time. Certified eclipse glasses, or nothing. This eclipse has no such moment anywhere: a ring of the Sun is left uncovered even on the central line, so there is no point in it at which the filter can come off.
Carry this in your pocket
Umbro for iPhone and iPad computes these same contact times on the device, for wherever you are standing, with no signal needed — which matters, because a good many eclipses are best seen from somewhere without any. It adds a Lock Screen countdown, Home Screen widgets, a camera built for totality, and it says plainly when the Sun can and cannot be looked at.
