Next Solar Eclipse in the US: Total in Alaska in 2033, Lower 48 on Aug. 22, 2044

The next total solar eclipse in the United States is on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2033, over Alaska, and the next one in the lower 48 states is on the evening of Monday, Aug. 22, 2044, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA’s tables date the 2044 eclipse Aug. 23 in Universal Time (UT), which is still Aug. 22 on mainland U.S. clocks. NASA’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page says totality in 2044 is visible only from North Dakota and Montana, and that the next total eclipse across the lower 48 from coast to coast is in 2045.

Solar eclipses with a U.S. view, 2027 to 2046

The table lists every solar eclipse from 2027 to 2046 whose region in NASA’s decade tables names the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii or North America. For Aug. 2, 2027, the U.S. entry comes from NASA’s Future Eclipses page. Dates are U.S. dates we worked out from NASA’s UT dates, with the weekday computed; the two Alaska-only rows in 2029 and 2030 fall a day earlier on Alaska clocks than in UT. The last column counts the years from Nov. 2, 2026.

U.S. date	Type	What NASA lists for the U.S.	Central duration worldwide	Years from today
Mon., Aug. 2, 2027	Total	Partial eclipse in northern Maine; totality is in Spain and North Africa	6 min 23 s	0.7
Wed., Jan. 26, 2028	Annular	Region “e N. America”; no U.S. place on the central path	10 min 27 s	1.2
Sun., Jan. 14, 2029	Partial	Region “N. America”	none	2.2
Mon., June 11, 2029 (June 12 UT)	Partial	Region includes “Alaska”	none	2.6
Fri., May 31, 2030 (June 1 UT)	Annular	Region includes “Alaska”; the central path is elsewhere	5 min 21 s	3.6
Fri., Nov. 14, 2031	Hybrid	Region “s US”; the central path is the Pacific and Panama	1 min 8 s	5.0
Wed., Mar. 30, 2033	Total	Totality in Alaska	2 min 37 s	6.4
Thu., Aug. 21, 2036	Partial	Region includes “Alaska”	none	9.8
Tue., Jan. 5, 2038	Annular	Region “e N. America”; no U.S. place on the central path	3 min 18 s	11.2
Fri., July 2, 2038	Annular	Region “N. & C. America”; no U.S. place on the central path	1 min 0 s	11.7
Tue., June 21, 2039	Annular	Annular path includes Alaska	4 min 5 s	12.6
Sun., Nov. 4, 2040	Partial	Region “N. & C. America”	none	14.0
Thu., Apr. 9, 2043	Total	Region “n N. America”; totality is in northeast Russia	not listed	16.4
Mon., Aug. 22, 2044 (Aug. 23 UT)	Total	Totality in North Dakota and Montana	2 min 4 s	17.8
Thu., Feb. 16, 2045	Annular	Region includes Hawaii; the annular path is New Zealand and the Pacific	7 min 47 s	18.3
Sat., Aug. 12, 2045	Total	Totality across “s US”; coast to coast	6 min 6 s	18.8
Mon., Feb. 5, 2046	Annular	Annular path: Hawaii, California, Oregon, Idaho	9 min 42 s	19.3

Bold rows have a central path, total or annular, over a U.S. place. Years are days divided by 365.2425, rounded to one decimal. The duration column is NASA’s central duration at greatest eclipse, a figure for the whole eclipse and not for a U.S. town, so it says little about what a U.S. viewer gets. Where a row says “no U.S. place on the central path”, NASA’s bracketed list of central-path places names none; NASA’s wording for the wider region is quoted as printed.

Mark the dates you plan around on a printable yearly calendar. Both the 2044 and 2045 total eclipses fall in August, which the August printable calendars lay out by week.

What is the Mar. 30, 2033 total solar eclipse in Alaska?

NASA’s 2031 to 2040 decade table lists the eclipse as total, with totality in “e Russia, Alaska”. The path page puts greatest eclipse at 18:01:16.4 UT, with a central duration of 2 minutes 37.0 seconds and a path 781.0 kilometers wide at that instant. It falls on a Wednesday.

The NASA pages we used list the path by latitude and longitude at two-minute steps, not by Alaska town, and they give no local times. This story gives none.

Where is the Aug. 22, 2044 total solar eclipse visible?

NASA’s FAQ page, last updated Apr. 1, 2024, says: “After 2024, the next total solar eclipse visible from any point in the contiguous United States will occur in 2044. Totality will only be visible from North Dakota and Montana.” The decade table adds Greenland and northern Canada to the path, and lists a central duration of 2 minutes 4 seconds.

Some news reports add South Dakota as a third state. NASA’s own wording names two, and we follow it.

The date needs care. NASA’s table says Aug. 23, and its path page gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 01:15:33.6 UT. By our conversion that is 9:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on Monday, Aug. 22. Either date refers to the same eclipse.

NASA’s longest figure for it, 2 minutes 3.8 seconds, is at 64°34’N, 120°22’W, well north of the U.S. border. NASA’s tables do not give a duration for North Dakota or Montana.

Is the Aug. 12, 2045 total solar eclipse coast to coast?

NASA’s FAQ page says the next total eclipse to travel across the lower 48 states from coast to coast is in 2045. The decade table dates it Saturday, Aug. 12 and lists totality in “s US, Haiti, Dominican Rep., Venezuela, Guyana, Fr. Guyana, Suriname, Brazil”. The path page gives a longest duration of 6 minutes 6.2 seconds, nearly three times the 2044 figure.

NASA’s path pages list coordinates, not state names, so we print no state list for 2045. The interactive map linked from NASA’s decade table shows the track.

When are the next annular solar eclipses in the U.S.?

NASA’s table for 2031 to 2040 includes Alaska in the annular path on Tuesday, June 21, 2039, with a central duration of 4 minutes 5 seconds, alongside northern Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Russia.

The 2041 to 2050 table lists Monday, Feb. 5, 2046, with an annular path over Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, California, Oregon and Idaho. Its 9 minutes 42 seconds at greatest eclipse and the path page’s 9 minutes 45.6 seconds are worldwide maxima, found in the Pacific. The longer one is at 1°56’N, 174°39’W, near the equator and far south of Hawaii. NASA’s tables give no annular duration for the U.S. stretch.

NASA’s table for Feb. 16, 2045 names Hawaii in the region but lists only New Zealand and the Pacific for the annular path. In NASA’s decade tables from 2021 to 2050, Hawaii is named only for that eclipse and for Feb. 5, 2046. None of the total eclipses names Hawaii.

Can you see a solar eclipse from the U.S. before 2033?

Only partial ones. NASA’s Future Eclipses page, updated Sep. 28, 2026, lists the Aug. 2, 2027 total eclipse for southern Spain, North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, with a partial eclipse in eastern Canada and northern Maine. For the other 2027 eclipse dates, see our 2027 eclipse overview, and for the Spain and Egypt totality times, the Aug. 2, 2027 times by city. For a full-moon schedule that fits around these dates, see our 2027 moon phases calendar.

The eclipse of Aug. 12, 2026 is already past. NASA’s Aug. 21, 2026 article says only a partial eclipse was visible in northern Maine, where a NASA photographer captured the International Space Station crossing the Sun near Hodgdon.

After 2027, NASA’s regions are “e N. America” on Jan. 26, 2028, “N. America” on Jan. 14, 2029, Alaska on June 12, 2029 and June 1, 2030, and “s US” on Nov. 14, 2031. All are partial for the U.S., and NASA’s tables give no coverage figures for U.S. cities.

Next U.S. solar eclipses printable

The one-page printable lists the five eclipses from 2033 to 2046 with a central path over a U.S. place, plus the Feb. 16, 2045 annular eclipse that NASA lists for Hawaii. Each row has the U.S. date, the type, the U.S. location and the longest duration NASA gives. Its source note names the same NASA pages as this story.