Sky event · 6 February 2027
The annular solar eclipse of 6 February 2027
On 6 February 2027 the Moon crosses in front of the Sun without covering it, leaving a ring of sunlight: greatest eclipse at 6 February 2027, 15:59 UT, at 31.3° S, 48.5° W. Computed with Astronomy Engine, checked 9 October 2026.
Sets the map's clock to 6 February 2027, 15:30 UT and flies to the Earth.
The facts
- Greatest eclipse
- 6 February 2027, 15:59 UT
- Where
- 31.3° S, 48.5° W
- Kind
- annular
Where to look from your place
Choose a city to see what this looks like from there. With scripts off, the map's Tonight view works out the same for the place you set in it.
Who sees what
Of the cities the map knows, these lie in the path of the annular eclipse (computed for each; the Sun may be low): Lagos (Nigeria), 84 percent at 17:52 UT, Sun 1° up.
Partial eclipse, the largest share of the Sun covered, from other cities: Rio de Janeiro 84 percent, Buenos Aires 82 percent, Sao Paulo 78 percent, Noronha 66 percent, Santiago 62 percent, Praia 34 percent, Cape Town 2 percent, Lima 2 percent.
Look safely
Never look at the Sun without eclipse glasses that meet the ISO 12312-2 standard, or a certified solar filter on a telescope or binoculars. That holds for an annular eclipse, which has no safe moment of totality, and for every partial phase of a total one.
Sources
- Computed here with Astronomy Engine (the Moon's shadow on the Earth), read 9 October 2026
Measured or computed? Dates of the showers and of the eclipses are computed with Astronomy Engine, the same library the map uses, and were read by a person on 9 October 2026. The Moon's percentage is computed. Rates are the IMO's and are not predictions of what you will count.