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2027 Eclipses: Dates, Times, and What You'll See

2027 brings two solar eclipses and three lunar eclipses, and it's worth setting expectations honestly from the start: neither solar eclipse crosses the path of totality or annularity over the UK. What you'll actually see, from London, is the August eclipse as a solid partial — and that's still worth marking on the calendar.

The two solar eclipses of 2027

The first is annular, on February 6, 2027 at 15:59 UTC, with its point of maximum over the South Atlantic (latitude −31.3, longitude −48.5), near the coast of southern Brazil and Uruguay, where coverage reaches 86.1%. The second is total, on August 2, 2027 at 10:06 UTC, with its point of maximum in Egypt — one of the longest stretches of totality this century — 6 minutes 23 seconds.

August 2: the eclipse the UK will actually see

This is the one that matters if you're in Britain. In London, coverage reaches 41.8%, starting at 09:03, peaking at 10:00, and ending at 10:59 (local time). For comparison, Madrid sees a much stronger 86.2% (09:45–10:51–12:02), and Kyiv a lighter 27.3% (11:38–12:34–13:30). London's coverage sits in between — enough to notice a genuine dip in daylight around the peak, without anything close to darkness.

It stays a partial eclipse throughout — the path of totality runs through Egypt, not over the UK, so there's no ring of fire and no real darkening here, just a clearly observable dimming of sunlight around mid-morning. If you have eclipse glasses from a previous event, this is a good morning to keep them within reach: at 41.8% coverage, the shape of the Moon biting into the Sun is easy to follow, even if it never becomes dramatic to the naked eye without them.

Worth noting too: neither of 2027's two solar eclipses is visible from North America. If you're reading this from the US or Mexico, the nearest one on your own calendar is January 26, 2028 — 2027 simply isn't your year for this.

And the February 6 eclipse?

That one doesn't reach the UK at all. It's annular over the South Atlantic and visible, even partially, from cities in South America — São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires — but not from London, Madrid, or Kyiv. It's worth knowing it exists and where it happens, but nothing will show in British skies that day.

The 2027 lunar eclipses: three, and all of them subtle

2027 has three lunar eclipses — February 20, July 18, and August 17 — and all three are penumbral, the mildest type there is. That's worth stating plainly up front: the Moon doesn't turn red, and there's none of the dramatic "blood moon" effect (which only happens during total lunar eclipses). What actually happens is the Moon dimming slightly for a few hours — a subtle shift that most people won't notice without paying close attention.

What an eclipse actually means on your birth chart

Astrologically, an eclipse isn't a fate prediction — it's a point in the sky that concentrates energy, a more intense climate on a specific date, not a verdict on what's going to happen to you. What it actually touches in your life depends on which house of your chart it falls in and which points of your personal map it aspects — which is why the same eclipse can pass almost unnoticed for one person and mark a genuinely significant moment for another.

That's true even for the partial eclipse London will see on August 2 — a modest 41.8% doesn't make the astrological point weaker. The sky doesn't check how visible an eclipse is from your city before deciding which house of your chart it's going to light up.

To know which it is for you, the real step is looking at your own chart, not a generic rule by sun sign. 2027 Transits in Your Chart shows how this and other sky movements land on your personal chart, and 2027 Predictions: The Full Year Ahead puts the eclipses in the context of the whole year, alongside the long Mars retrograde running from January to April.

Keep reading: Mercury Retrograde 2027 · Mars Retrograde 2027

Sources and method

• Dates and times — calculated with AstroMapa's own ephemeris library, city by city, not copied from ready-made tables (see how we calculate)
• Cross-check — dates, types and moments of greatest eclipse verified against NASA's eclipse catalogue; the gap never exceeds 2 minutes, an effect of converting between the TD and UT time scales (NASA Eclipse Web Site)
• What we don't claim — the astrological reading is interpretation, not a prediction of events; the text is written with AI assistance and edited by a person (AstroMapa editorial)

In short

2027 has two solar eclipses — annular on February 6 over the South Atlantic, visible as partial from South American cities; total on August 2 in Egypt, visible as partial from London (41.8%), Madrid (86.2%), and Kyiv (27.3%) — and three penumbral lunar eclipses, subtle enough that none of them deserve the "blood moon" label. To understand what any of these eclipses actually touches in your life, the real step is checking your free birth chart and seeing which house each one falls in, and for the full year ahead, the personalized 2027 horoscope.