Total Solar Eclipse of 12 August 2045

Total eclipse · saros 136

12 August 2045

Eclipse day approaches

Greatest totality: 6m 06s; NASA catalogue central duration.
Magnitude: 1.077; Fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at greatest eclipse.

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

1United States
2Haiti
3Dominican Republic
4Venezuela
5Guyana
6Suriname
7French Guiana
8Brazil

Totality crosses the southern US, the Caribbean and northern South America.

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 12 August 2045 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)	12 August 2045
Type	Total
Greatest totality	6m 06s
Magnitude	1.077
Saros series	136
Path countries	United States → Haiti → Dominican Republic → Venezuela → Guyana → Suriname → French Guiana → Brazil

Why it matters: The next 6-minute giant — same saros family as 2027, crossing the US coast to coast.

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.