Solar eclipse of September 21, 2025

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Sunday, September 21, 2025,^[1] with a magnitude of 0.855. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

Solar eclipse of September 21, 2025

Partial eclipse
Map
Gamma	−1.0651
Magnitude	0.855
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	60.9°S 153.5°E / -60.9; 153.5
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	19:43:04
References
Saros	154 (7 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9564
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Partiality was visible across much of Oceania and Antarctica, with up to 80% coverage being visible at the southernmost point of New Zealand and on Stewart Island on the morning of September 22 local time.^[2] Most of New Zealand was covered in cloud on the morning of the eclipse, preventing many sightings.^[3]

Images

Animated path

Eclipse timing

Places experiencing partial eclipse

Solar Eclipse of September 21, 2025
(Local Times)

Country or territory	City or place	Start of partial eclipse	Maximum eclipse	End of partial eclipse	Duration of eclipse (hr:min)	Maximum coverage
Tuvalu	Funafuti[a]	05:52:59 (sunrise)	06:09:44	06:49:03	0:56	9.04%
Tokelau	Fakaofo[a]	06:31:42	07:10:52	07:52:58	1:21	8.95%
Wallis and Futuna	Mata Utu[a]	05:34:32 (sunrise)	06:15:58	07:06:09	1:32	17.08%
Samoa	Apia[a]	06:29:54	07:17:20	08:09:04	1:39	16.87%
American Samoa	Pago Pago	06:30:03	07:18:14	08:10:52	1:41	17.29%
Fiji	Lautoka[a]	06:00:05 (sunrise)	06:22:08	07:17:16	1:17	26.47%
Fiji	Nadi[a]	06:00:15 (sunrise)	06:22:25	07:17:49	1:18	26.87%
Fiji	Suva[a]	05:56:13 (sunrise)	06:22:55	07:19:04	1:23	27.41%
Tonga	Neiafu[a]	06:31:03	07:24:34	08:23:32	1:52	26.58%
Niue	Alofi	06:31:46	07:26:22	08:26:36	1:55	25.63%
Tonga	Pangai[a]	06:31:43	07:26:25	08:26:49	1:59	28.89%
Tonga	Nuku'alofa[a]	06:32:37	07:28:29	08:30:14	1:59	31.66%
French Polynesia	Vaitape	07:45:31	08:31:29	09:21:00	1:35	8.96%
French Polynesia	Papeete	07:49:23	08:35:16	09:24:33	1:35	8.37%
Cook Islands	Rarotonga	07:38:08	08:35:20	09:38:19	2:00	22.69%
Vanuatu	Port Vila[a]	05:36:38 (sunrise)	05:38:54	06:15:28	0:39	22.28%
Norfolk Island	Kingston[a]	05:38:06 (sunrise)	05:40:45	06:43:08	1:05	49.07%
Vanuatu	Luganville[a]	05:41:10 (sunrise)	05:43:22	06:09:24	0:28	14.09%
New Caledonia	Nouméa[a]	05:44:09 (sunrise)	05:46:28	06:26:33	0:42	29.77%
New Zealand	Auckland[a]	06:10:52 (sunrise)	06:55:14	08:04:41	1:54	60.79%
New Zealand	Wellington[a]	06:10:44 (sunrise)	07:04:04	08:15:03	2:04	66.25%
New Zealand	Christchurch[a]	06:19:15 (sunrise)	07:08:07	08:18:50	2:00	69.15%
New Zealand	Chatham Islands[a]	06:49:50	07:57:56	09:12:40	2:23	65.33%
Australia	Lord Howe Island[a]	05:43:33 (sunrise)	05:46:03	06:16:36	0:33	27.82%
Australia	Macquarie Island[a]	05:13:31 (sunrise)	05:28:45	06:36:25	1:23	78.46%
Australia	Sydney[a]	05:45:01 (sunrise)	05:47:35	05:50:53	0:06	1.18%
Australia	Canberra[a]	05:53:19 (sunrise)	05:53:19	05:53:51	0:01	0.08%
Australia	Hobart[a]	06:00:22 (sunrise)	06:03:16	06:09:32	0:09	3.20%
Antarctica	Zucchelli Station[a]	07:05:10	08:10:25	09:17:46	2:13	72.55%
Antarctica	McMurdo Station[a]	07:11:44	08:16:46	09:23:25	2:12	69.26%
References: [1]

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the Moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.^[4]

September 21, 2025 Solar Eclipse Times

Event	Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact	2025 September 21 at 17:30:51.3 UTC
Greatest Eclipse	2025 September 21 at 19:43:04.2 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction	2025 September 21 at 19:55:17.4 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction	2025 September 21 at 20:51:38.8 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact	2025 September 21 at 21:54:55.1 UTC

September 21, 2025 Solar Eclipse Parameters

Parameter	Value
Eclipse Magnitude	0.85504
Eclipse Obscuration	0.79691
Gamma	−1.06509
Sun Right Ascension	11h56m36.9s
Sun Declination	+00°22'00.7"
Sun Semi-Diameter	15'55.9"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	08.8"
Moon Right Ascension	11h54m42.8s
Moon Declination	-00°29'14.7"
Moon Semi-Diameter	15'02.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	0°55'13.2"
ΔT	72.1 s

Eclipse season

See also: Eclipse cycle

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of September 2025

September 7 Ascending node (full moon)	September 21 Descending node (new moon)
Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 128	Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 154

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2025

• A total lunar eclipse on March 14.
• A partial solar eclipse on March 29.
• A total lunar eclipse on September 7.
• A partial solar eclipse on September 21.

Metonic

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 4, 2021
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 11, 2029

Tzolkinex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 11, 2018
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 3, 2032

Half-Saros

• Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 16, 2016
• Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 28, 2034

Tritos

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 23, 2014
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 21, 2036

Solar Saros 154

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 11, 2007
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 3, 2043

Inex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 12, 1996
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 2, 2054

Triad

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 21, 1938
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 23, 2112

Solar eclipses of 2022–2025

Solar eclipse series sets from 2022 to 2025
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
119 Partial in CTIO, Chile	April 30, 2022 Partial	−1.19008		124 Partial from Saratov, Russia	October 25, 2022 Partial	1.07014
129 Partial in Magetan, Indonesia	April 20, 2023 Hybrid	−0.39515		134 Annularity in Hobbs, NM, USA	October 14, 2023 Annular	0.37534
139 Totality in Dallas, TX, USA	April 8, 2024 Total	0.34314		144 Annularity in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina	October 2, 2024 Annular	−0.35087
149 Partial from Halifax, Canada	March 29, 2025 Partial	1.04053		154	September 21, 2025 Partial	−1.06509

Saros 154

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 154, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 19, 1917. It contains annular eclipses from October 3, 2043, through March 27, 2332; hybrid eclipses from April 7, 2350 through April 29, 2386; and total eclipses from May 9, 2404 through May 29, 3035. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 25, 3179. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 9 at 3 minutes, 41 seconds on October 13, 2061, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 35 at 4 minutes, 50 seconds on July 25, 2530. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.^[5]

Series members 1–16 occur between 1917 and 2200:
1	2	3
July 19, 1917	July 30, 1935	August 9, 1953
4	5	6
August 20, 1971	August 31, 1989	September 11, 2007
7	8	9
September 21, 2025	October 3, 2043	October 13, 2061
10	11	12
October 24, 2079	November 4, 2097	November 16, 2115
13	14	15
November 26, 2133	December 8, 2151	December 18, 2169
16
December 29, 2187

Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

21 eclipse events between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–11	April 29–30	February 15–16	December 4	September 21–23
116	118	120	122	124
July 11, 1953	April 30, 1957	February 15, 1961	December 4, 1964	September 22, 1968
126	128	130	132	134
July 10, 1972	April 29, 1976	February 16, 1980	December 4, 1983	September 23, 1987
136	138	140	142	144
July 11, 1991	April 29, 1995	February 16, 1999	December 4, 2002	September 22, 2006
146	148	150	152	154
July 11, 2010	April 29, 2014	February 15, 2018	December 4, 2021	September 21, 2025
156
July 11, 2029

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

The partial solar eclipses on November 16, 2134 (part of Saros 164) and October 16, 2145 (part of Saros 165) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.

Series members between 1801 and 2069
June 6, 1807 (Saros 134)	May 5, 1818 (Saros 135)	April 3, 1829 (Saros 136)	March 4, 1840 (Saros 137)	February 1, 1851 (Saros 138)
December 31, 1861 (Saros 139)	November 30, 1872 (Saros 140)	October 30, 1883 (Saros 141)	September 29, 1894 (Saros 142)	August 30, 1905 (Saros 143)
July 30, 1916 (Saros 144)	June 29, 1927 (Saros 145)	May 29, 1938 (Saros 146)	April 28, 1949 (Saros 147)	March 27, 1960 (Saros 148)
February 25, 1971 (Saros 149)	January 25, 1982 (Saros 150)	December 24, 1992 (Saros 151)	November 23, 2003 (Saros 152)	October 23, 2014 (Saros 153)
September 21, 2025 (Saros 154)	August 21, 2036 (Saros 155)	July 22, 2047 (Saros 156)	June 21, 2058 (Saros 157)	May 20, 2069 (Saros 158)

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
February 11, 1823 (Saros 147)	January 21, 1852 (Saros 148)	December 31, 1880 (Saros 149)
December 12, 1909 (Saros 150)	November 21, 1938 (Saros 151)	November 2, 1967 (Saros 152)
October 12, 1996 (Saros 153)	September 21, 2025 (Saros 154)	September 2, 2054 (Saros 155)
August 13, 2083 (Saros 156)	July 23, 2112 (Saros 157)	July 3, 2141 (Saros 158)
June 14, 2170 (Saros 159)	May 24, 2199 (Saros 160)

Notes

1. The times listed for this location occur on September 22, 2025, local time.