Total Solar Eclipse of 20 April 2042

Total eclipse · saros 139

Greatest totality

4m 51s

NASA catalogue central duration.

Magnitude

1.061

Fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at greatest eclipse.

The path

Totality crosses Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines into the north Pacific.

MalaysiaIndonesiaPhilippines

Why it matters: Nearly five minutes over some of the most populated islands on Earth.

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.