Eclipses in 2028 — Surya and Chandra Grahan
5 eclipses in 2028; 4 visible from India.
In brief
2028 has 5 eclipses — 2 solar and 3 lunar. 4 can be seen from India (as listed by timeanddate.com): the lunar eclipse of 12 January 2028, the lunar eclipse of 6 July 2028, the solar eclipse of 22 July 2028, the lunar eclipse of 31 December 2028. An eclipse is a natural, predictable alignment of the Sun, Moon and Earth — for any observance, follow your own family’s practice.
Next eclipse visible from India: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (Chandra Grahan) — Sunday, 21 February 2027, 04:43 IST (greatest eclipse). Details →
Every eclipse of 2028
Partial Lunar Eclipse (Chandra Grahan)
Visible from India- Greatest eclipse
- Wednesday, 12 January 2028, 09:43 IST
- Type (NASA)
- Partial, umbral magnitude 0.066
- How long (NASA)
- partial phase 56 min
- Seen from (NASA)
- Americas, Europe, Africa
- India / Delhi
- Listed by timeanddate.com as visible from India (not from Delhi).
Annular Solar Eclipse (Surya Grahan)
Not visible from India- Greatest eclipse
- Wednesday, 26 January 2028, 20:38 IST
- Type (NASA)
- Annular, magnitude 0.921
- Central phase (NASA)
- up to 10 min 27 s on the central line
- Seen from (NASA)
- e N. America, C. & S. America, w Europe, nw Africa. [Annular: Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, Spain, Portugal]
- India / Delhi
- Not listed by timeanddate.com as visible from India.
Partial Lunar Eclipse (Chandra Grahan)
Visible from India- Greatest eclipse
- Thursday, 6 July 2028, 23:50 IST
- Type (NASA)
- Partial, umbral magnitude 0.389
- How long (NASA)
- partial phase 2 h 21 min
- Seen from (NASA)
- Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia
- India / Delhi
- Listed by timeanddate.com as visible from India, including Delhi.
Total Solar Eclipse (Surya Grahan)
Visible from India- Greatest eclipse
- Saturday, 22 July 2028, 08:25 IST
- Type (NASA)
- Total, magnitude 1.056
- Central phase (NASA)
- up to 5 min 10 s on the central line
- Seen from (NASA)
- SE Asia, E. Indies, Australia, N.Z. [Total: Australia, N. Z.]
- India / Delhi
- Listed by timeanddate.com as visible from India (not from Delhi). India is not among the countries NASA lists on the central path, so from India it is seen as a partial eclipse.
Eye safety: never look straight at the Sun during a partial or annular eclipse — use solar viewers made to the ISO 12312-2 standard; ordinary sunglasses are not safe (NASA).
Total Lunar Eclipse (Chandra Grahan)
Visible from India- Greatest eclipse
- Sunday, 31 December 2028, 22:22 IST
- Type (NASA)
- Total, umbral magnitude 1.246
- How long (NASA)
- partial phase 3 h 29 min, totality 1 h 11 min
- Seen from (NASA)
- Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Pacific
- India / Delhi
- Listed by timeanddate.com as visible from India, including Delhi.
How these are worked out
The eclipses and the time of greatest eclipse are computed from the real positions of the Sun and Moon, near , and match NASA’s eclipse tables (Fred Espenak) in date and type; the IST time agrees with NASA’s to within a minute. Type, magnitude, durations and the region where each is seen are quoted from NASA; visibility from India and Delhi is quoted from timeanddate.com. We do not list Sutak timings, because we have not found a published rule we can cite and check — your family priest or temple calendar is the right guide for that.
Reading the cards: a solar eclipse’s magnitude is the share of the Sun’s diameter the Moon covers at greatest eclipse (1 or more on the central path of a total eclipse). For a lunar eclipse the umbral magnitude is how far the Moon enters the Earth’s dark inner shadow; a negative value marks a penumbral eclipse, when the Moon passes only through the faint outer shadow and dims slightly.