Total Solar Eclipse of 26 December 2038

Total eclipse · saros 142

26 December 2038

Eclipse day approaches

Greatest totality: 2m 18s; NASA catalogue central duration.
Magnitude: 1.027; Fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at greatest eclipse.

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

1Australia
2New Zealand

Totality crosses Australia, New Zealand and the south Pacific.

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 26 December 2038 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)	26 December 2038
Type	Total
Greatest totality	2m 18s
Magnitude	1.027
Saros series	142
Path countries	Australia → New Zealand

Why it matters: A Boxing Day totality for Australia and New Zealand.

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.