Although it won’t be as spectacular as North America’s April 2024 total solar eclipse, the first solar eclipse since the “ring of fire” eclipse in October 2024 is set to bring stunning views to some lucky eclipse chasers.
Just two weeks after a stunning total lunar eclipse on March 13-14, 2025, skywatchers across the western Northern Hemisphere will see at least a partial solar eclipse on March 29, 2025.
For some observers, an eclipsed sun will appear on the eastern horizon at sunrise — if skies are clear — as the moon blocks up to 93% of the sun. Here are all the maps you need to see where the partial solar eclipse will be visible.
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Entire path of visibility for the March 2025 partial solar eclipse
This partial solar eclipse will have a long and broad path, rising in extreme eastern North America and setting in Siberia, Russia. At least a slight partial solar eclipse will be visible from northeast North America, Greenland, Western Europe, northwest and north central Russia, northwest Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic. South America, Asia, almost all of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Ocean and most of North America will miss out.
The eclipse will begin at 8:50 UTC as a partially eclipsed sunrise in northeastern North America, and at 12:43 UTC, it will end as a partially eclipsed sunset in Siberia. About 814 million people will be in the path of at least some of this eclipse, but only about 44,800 will see at least a 90% partial solar eclipse, according to Timeanddate.com. For all locations, the entire event will take a little under two hours, with a peak in obscuration halfway through.
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How to read the map: Northeastern North America
The green line represents the partially eclipsed sun rising. That’s the ideal place to be. From locations west of the green line but east of the orange line, the sun will rise slightly eclipsed, but the eclipse will have already peaked, with obscuration already decreasing. From the west of the orange line, no eclipse will be visible, since it will have already finished before local sunrise. From locations east of the green line but west of the orange line, the sun will rise partially eclipsed, but it will be a slighter eclipse. The partial eclipse will begin after sunrise from all locations east of that orange line.
The point of maximum eclipse — 93% — will occur close to Akulivik, an Inuit village in Nunavik, northern Quebec, Canada, 1,150 miles (1,850 kilometers) north of Montreal. The closer a location is to Akulivik, the greater the obscuration of the sun by the moon.
Path of the eclipse: Atlantic Canada
Parts of Atlantic Canada will arguably get the best shot at seeing a partially eclipsed sunrise, weather permitting. In St. Andrews, New Brunswick, eclipse chasers (including myself) will gather at Sky Experience II: The Rising Sun Eclipse Experience & Retreat, hoping to see an eclipsed sun rise over Passamaquoddy Bay at 7:13 a.m. ADT, with maximum eclipse (83%) at 7:18 a.m. ADT and the partial eclipse ending at 8:13 a.m. ADT.
“Solar horns” — two arcs that appear on the horizon during a sunrise eclipse — should also be visible if skies are clear. A similar scenario will occur on Grand Manan Island, to the south.
Farther east, Moncton, New Brunswick, will see an 84% eclipse; Halifax Nova Scotia, will get 82%; East Point, Prince Edward Island, will see 84%; and St. John’s, Newfoundland, will see 82%.
Path of the March 2025 partial solar eclipse: U.S. and Canada
With the eclipse beginning at sunrise along a line that intersects the northeast U.S., coastal areas will be the best locations to watch a partially eclipsed sunrise. The eclipse will end close to sunrise, traveling from close to the northeast corner of Lake Erie through Norfolk, Virginia. That leaves Rochester with a maximum 8.6% eclipse at 7 a.m. EDT (just three minutes after sunrise) and Washington, D.C., with 1.2% at 6:59 a.m. EDT (two minutes after sunrise), while coastal locations such as Ocean City, Maryland, will see only a 7% eclipse at 6:52 a.m. EDT (three minutes after sunrise).
The farther you travel up the East Coast, the greater the spectacle will become, with the New England coast and Maine seeing the most dramatic scenes at sunrise.
|
Location |
Percentage eclipsed |
Time |
|---|---|---|
|
Atlantic City |
14 |
6:49 a.m. EDT |
|
New York City |
21 |
6:46 a.m. EDT |
|
Nantucket |
53 |
6:30 a.m. EDT |
|
Boston |
43 |
6:38 a.m. EDT |
|
Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
57 |
6:32 a.m. EDT |
|
Bar Harbor, Maine |
80 |
6:21 a.m. EDT |
Path of the March 2025 partial solar eclipse: Europe
This partial solar eclipse will be a less dramatic but likely more visible (and more observed) midmorning spectacle in Europe, with locations to the northwest seeing the most obscuration. The visibility line cuts through Eastern Europe, with Serbia, Romania and Ukraine experiencing tiny eclipses in their northwest regions and no eclipse to the southeast.
Spain’s Canary Islands, located off the northwest coast of Africa, will get a half-decent view, with the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory atop the Taburiente volcano in La Palma seeing a maximum 25% eclipse at 10:03 a.m. WET.
|
Location |
Percentage eclipsed |
Time |
|---|---|---|
|
Nuuk, Greenland |
87 |
8:53 a.m. WGT |
|
Reykjavik, Iceland |
67 |
11:05 a.m. GMT |
|
Oslo, Norway |
30 |
12:24 p.m. CET |
|
Dublin |
41 |
11 a.m. GMT |
|
Cardiff, Wales |
35 |
11 a.m. GMT |
|
Edinburgh, Scotland |
41 |
11:07 a.m. GMT |
|
London |
31 |
11:03 a.m. GMT |
|
Paris |
24 |
12:01 p.m. CET |
|
Berlin |
15 |
12:19 p.m. CET |
|
Madrid |
21 |
11:40 a.m. CET |
|
Vienna |
6 |
12:17 p.m. CET |
Path of the March 2025 partial solar eclipse: Northwest Africa
Although some parts of Africa will see some of this eclipse, it’s a nonevent save for the Atlantic coast of Morocco.
A tiny partial eclipse will be visible farther south, from Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and inland Algeria and Tunisia.
|
Location |
Percentage eclipsed |
Time |
|---|---|---|
|
Tangier, Morocco |
18 |
10:28 a.m. WET |
|
Rabat |
16 |
10:24 a.m. WET |
|
Casablanca |
17 |
10:22 a.m |
|
Dakhla, Western Sahara |
15 |
9:55 a.m. WET |
Path of the eclipse: Russia
This partial solar eclipse comes to an end in northwestern Russia. Murmansk, the world’s largest city north of the Arctic Circle, on Kola Bay, will see a 29% eclipse at 2:45 p.m. MSK. A sunset eclipse will be possible from Khatanga, in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Krai region of northern Siberia, where a maximum 23% eclipse will occur at 7:02 p.m. KRAT, with the sun setting eight minutes later. Khatanga is one of the northernmost inhabited localities in Russia, close to Popigai, a 60-mile-wide (100 kilometers) crater caused by an asteroid strike about 35 million years ago. Moscow will see only a 2% eclipse, at 2:49 p.m. MSK.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bakich, M. and Zeiler, M. (2022). Atlas of Solar Eclipses 2020-2045. https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/books/atlas-of-solar-eclipses-2020-to-2045
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Time and Date. (n.d.). March 29, 2025, Partial Solar Eclipse. Feb. 16, 2025, from https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2025-march-29
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