Total Solar Eclipse of 20 March 2034

Total eclipse · saros 130

20 March 2034

Eclipse day approaches

Greatest totality: 4m 09s; NASA catalogue central duration.
Magnitude: 1.046; Fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at greatest eclipse.

The order the shadow crosses the path, west → east.

1Nigeria
2Cameroon
3Chad
4Sudan
5Egypt
6Saudi Arabia
7Iran
8Afghanistan
9Pakistan
10India
11China

Totality runs from central Africa through Egypt and the Middle East into south Asia.

Country sequence from the NASA GSFC catalogue. This is a schematic order, not a geographic map — see methodology.

Computed visibility map: shading shows how much of the Sun is covered at local maximum; the outlined dark band is the path of totality. — Where the 20 March 2034 eclipse is visible — computed from NASA Besselian elements on a fine world grid; gold shading is the fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at local maximum, the outlined band is totality. Coastlines: Natural Earth. Click the map to zoom.

The facts, in one place

Date (UT)	20 March 2034
Type	Total
Greatest totality	4m 09s
Magnitude	1.046
Saros series	130
Path countries	Nigeria → Cameroon → Chad → Sudan → Egypt → Saudi Arabia → Iran → Afghanistan → Pakistan → India → China

Why it matters: Egypt gets its second totality in seven years, on nearly the same ground as 2027.

This page carries NASA catalogue facts only — no city timings yet. When this eclipse gets close enough to plan, it will get the same treatment as 2027 and 2028: local circumstances computed for the path cities with our validated engine, cloud climatology where a source exists, and honest dashes where one doesn't.

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Source: NASA GSFC eclipse catalogue (SEdecade tables), fetched 2026-08-09.