2023 eclipse map

On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America, millions of people in the Western Hemisphere can experience this eclipse.

During an annular eclipse, it is never safe to look directly at the Sun without specialized eye protection designed for solar viewing. Review these safety guidelines to prepare for Oct. 14, 2023.

Quick Facts

A partial solar eclipse will be visible in all 48 contiguous U.S. states plus Alaska!

This is the last annular solar eclipse that will be visible from the United States until June 21, 2039. Alaska is the only U.S. state in the path for that eclipse.

“X” marks the spot! The eclipse will pass over a part of Texas where a total solar eclipse will pass just six months later, in April 2024.

This set of three images shows views three seconds apart as the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, passed directly in front of the Sun as seen by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity from the surface of the Red Planet.

• Visit our multimedia gallery to explore exciting images and videos of eclipses.

• Learn more about eclipses with hands-on and virtual activities for the whole family.

Eclipses News

The National Solar Observatory (NSO) is the national center for ground-based solar physics in the United States (www.nso.edu) and is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future. Please refer to www.nsf.gov.

This map selection tool will allow you to quickly navigate to an eclipse information page for any given state, province, city, or custom location you choose! All you have to do is click on the location you’re interested in.

Navigating the page works like other Google maps you’re used to using, in that you can scroll and pan, display a satellite image instead of a map, type a city name in the search box, or simply zoom in and click on any location you like.

VALID SELECTION REGION
If you zoom out, you’ll notice a red path that’s been drawn around North and Central America, the Caribbean, and a part of South America. These boundaries define the region we are providing eclipse information for, and that region should be complete enough to plan your eclipse viewing activities! (If not, then we recommend you head over to Xavier Jubier’s excellent Interactive Google Map of the 2023 annular eclipse!)

PATH OF ANNULARITY
Within this valid selection region, we’ve included a drawing of the path of annularity to help you get your bearings for the eclipse. It’s important to remember that the eclipse path extends both west and east outside our valid region, but no land is contained within the path where we haven’t drawn it.

NO ECLIPSE?
There are locations within the valid selection region where no eclipse occurs at all. If this is true for the location you select, we’ll tell you!

CITIES AND CUSTOM LOCATIONS
If you zoom into the map, you’ll be able to click anywhere within the valid region and see a small popup balloon. This balloon will tell you if the place you clicked on will see any of the eclipse. If so, then you’ll immediately see whether that location is in the path or not, and whether it’s close to the path in either case. (Of course, you could also tell that by just looking at the path we’ve drawn!)

But also, you’ll see the nearest town that has eclipse information in the database we’ve made. You can use that link to go directly to that city’s eclipse info page (which also includes a link to its Community Page). If there’s no city in the database within 50 miles [80km] of the location you selected, you won’t see this option.

In all cases, you’ll also see the option to view eclipse data for the exact location you selected. If you click on this option, you’ll go to a page that shows you that custom information. There won’t be a community page for it (because it’s a location and not a specific city), but the real advantage is that you’ll be able to see eclipse circumstances for the exact spot you selected. This is extremely useful in case your city is close to the edge of the path, because you won’t be relying on the location we had to choose when we made each city’s page – you’ll be using your own location!

We hope you find this method of location selection easy to use. If you have any problems with it, please let us know so we can make things right. (Be sure to include the city or lat/long information you selected, so we can reproduce the situation you found!)

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