Next Blood Moon in the U.S.: Total Lunar Eclipse June 25, 2029, and Every Eclipse to 2030

The next blood moon visible from the United States is the total lunar eclipse of Monday, June 25, 2029, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center’s decade table of lunar eclipses for 2021 to 2030. Greatest eclipse is at 11:22 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), and NASA lists the Americas in that eclipse’s region. No total lunar eclipse falls in 2027, and the only one before 2029, on Dec. 31, 2028, is outside the Americas.

NASA’s table also lists a total eclipse on March 3, 2026 and a partial one on Aug. 28, 2026. Both are past. This story uses “blood moon” for a total lunar eclipse, the type NASA says turns the Moon dark red or orange. The table below covers every lunar eclipse from today through 2030.

Which lunar eclipses through 2030 are a blood moon?

Three of the ten lunar eclipses in NASA’s table are total: Dec. 31, 2028, June 26, 2029 and Dec. 20, 2029. In NASA’s wording, “during a total lunar eclipse, the Moon appears dark red or orange” because “the light that does reach the lunar surface is filtered through a thick slice of Earth’s atmosphere.” NASA adds: “It’s as if all of the world’s sunrises and sunsets are projected onto the Moon.”

The other seven are penumbral or partial. NASA’s catalog defines a penumbral eclipse as the Moon crossing Earth’s penumbral shadow while missing the umbral shadow, so the Moon only dims slightly. A partial eclipse has the Moon in the umbra without passing completely into it.

Every lunar eclipse from Nov. 2, 2026 to 2030

Greatest-eclipse times are in Eastern Time (ET): Eastern Standard Time (EST) is Universal Time (UT) minus 5 hours, and EDT is UT minus 4 hours. Times are rounded to the nearest minute and are our conversion of NASA’s data. The last column counts from today, Nov. 2, 2026, to the U.S. date.

NASA date (UT)	U.S. date	Type	Greatest eclipse (ET)	Totality	From the contiguous U.S.?	Time from today
Feb. 20, 2027	Sat., Feb. 20, 2027	Penumbral	6:13 p.m. EST	None	Americas listed	110 days
July 18, 2027	Sun., July 18, 2027	Penumbral	12:03 p.m. EDT	None	No, region leaves out the Americas	258 days
Aug. 17, 2027	Tue., Aug. 17, 2027	Penumbral	3:14 a.m. EDT	None	Americas listed	288 days
Jan. 12, 2028	Tue., Jan. 11, 2028	Partial	11:13 p.m. EST	None	Americas listed	1 year 70 days
July 6, 2028	Thu., July 6, 2028	Partial	2:20 p.m. EDT	None	No, region leaves out the Americas	1 year 247 days
Dec. 31, 2028	Sun., Dec. 31, 2028	Total	11:52 a.m. EST	1 h 11 min	No, region leaves out the Americas	2 years 59 days
June 26, 2029	Mon., June 25, 2029	Total	11:22 p.m. EDT	1 h 42 min	Americas listed	2 years 235 days
Dec. 20, 2029	Thu., Dec. 20, 2029	Total	5:42 p.m. EST	54 min	Americas listed	3 years 48 days
June 15, 2030	Sat., June 15, 2030	Partial	2:33 p.m. EDT	None	No, region leaves out the Americas	3 years 225 days
Dec. 9, 2030	Mon., Dec. 9, 2030	Penumbral	5:28 p.m. EST	None	Americas listed	4 years 37 days

“Americas listed” means NASA’s region for that eclipse includes the Americas. NASA’s decade table gives regions as whole continents and does not say which U.S. states or cities see each phase. “No” means the region does not include the Americas. Totality lengths are from NASA’s catalog (71.3, 101.9 and 53.7 minutes). Put the dates you want on a printable yearly calendar or the February 2027 printable calendar.

Why do NASA’s eclipse dates differ from U.S. dates?

NASA’s decade table gives each date in Universal Time. Two entries land on a different day in the Eastern time zone. The June 2029 total eclipse is June 26 in NASA’s table but is June 25 in the evening on U.S. clocks, and the Jan. 12, 2028 partial eclipse is Jan. 11 at 11:13 p.m. EST. NASA’s “Future Eclipses” page works the other way and lists local dates as ranges: “Feb. 20-21, 2027” and “Aug. 16-17, 2027.”

The decade table’s times are in Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD). NASA’s catalog gives a delta T value for each eclipse, 76 to 78 seconds for the eclipses in the table above, and subtracting it gives UT. For the June 2029 eclipse, 03:23:22 TD minus 77 seconds is 03:22:05 UT, which is 11:22 p.m. EDT on June 25.

June 25, 2029: the next total lunar eclipse in the U.S.

NASA’s catalog gives an umbral magnitude of 1.844 for the June 2029 eclipse, the deepest of the three, and a totality of 101.9 minutes. NASA’s decade table lists the partial phases at 3 hours 40 minutes and the region as the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Centering NASA’s totality length on the greatest-eclipse time gives these times in EDT, our calculation:

Phase	Time (EDT)
Partial phase begins	About 9:32 p.m., June 25
Totality begins	About 10:31 p.m., June 25
Greatest eclipse	11:22 p.m., June 25
Totality ends	About 12:13 a.m., June 26
Partial phase ends	About 1:12 a.m., June 26

The June 2029 eclipse crosses midnight on U.S. clocks, so the date changes during totality. NASA’s table does not say which U.S. places see every phase, so check your own moonrise time before planning around it.

What about the Dec. 20, 2029 total lunar eclipse?

About six months later NASA lists another total eclipse, with an umbral magnitude of 1.117, greatest eclipse at 5:42 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2029 and 54 minutes of totality. The region is the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. The earlier Dec. 31, 2028 total eclipse lasts 1 hour 11 minutes, with greatest eclipse at 11:52 a.m. EST, and NASA’s region for it is Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

What are the lunar eclipses before 2029?

None of them is total. The three 2027 eclipses (Feb. 20, July 18, Aug. 17) are penumbral, and the July 18 eclipse is out of the Americas’ region. Our 2027 eclipse dates and times story has the penumbral phase times, and the 2027 full moon calendar fits each date into the month. The Jan. 11, 2028 partial eclipse, in the table above, has an umbral magnitude of 0.066 in NASA’s table, meaning 6.6 percent of the Moon’s diameter enters the umbra, and NASA lists the Americas. The July 6, 2028 and June 15, 2030 partial eclipses are outside the Americas’ region.

For other sky dates before then, see the supermoons and meteor showers that close 2026.