Eclipses 2025

Retrograde windows run from the station-retrograde day to the station-direct day, both counted, in UTC — the same windows as the 2025 retrograde calendar.

Eclipses and times of greatest eclipse are computed with astronomy-engine and checked against NASA’s eclipse catalog; see the method.

01When are the eclipses in 2025?

Total lunar: 14 Mar 2025, 23° Virgo; Partial solar: 29 Mar 2025, 8° Aries; Total lunar: 7 Sep 2025, 15° Pisces; Partial solar: 21 Sep 2025, 29° Virgo. Times of greatest eclipse are on this page, in UTC.

02When is eclipse season in 2025?

27 Feb 2025 to 4 Apr 2025 (north node); 23 Aug 2025 to 29 Sep 2025 (south node). A season here is every UTC day on which the Sun stands within 18.5° of one of the Moon’s nodes.

03Which planets were retrograde during the 2025 eclipses?

Total lunar eclipse on 14 Mar: Retrograde that day: Venus. Partial solar eclipse on 29 Mar: Retrograde that day: Mercury and Venus. It falls on day 15 of a 24-day Mercury retrograde. Total lunar eclipse on 7 Sep: Retrograde that day: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Partial solar eclipse on 21 Sep: Retrograde that day: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

04What is an eclipse season?

The Moon’s orbit is tilted about five degrees to the Sun’s path, so most new and full moons pass above or below the Sun or Earth’s shadow. Twice a year, for about five weeks, the Sun stands near one of the two points where the orbits cross, the nodes; any new or full moon then is close enough to the node to cast or catch a shadow. Every season has at least two eclipses, a solar and a lunar, and sometimes three.