Grahan 2027–2028: the next eclipse, its sutak and the exact time for your city

There is no grahan today. The next grahan seen from Columbus is the partial lunar eclipse on Tuesday, 11 January 2028: sparsha 10:45 PM, moksha 11:42 PM.

Yes, as a partial eclipse in the afternoon across almost all of India; only the far north-east misses it. It is total only along a narrow path through southern Spain, North Africa and Arabia. The further south you are in India, the more of the Sun is covered: about 8% of the disc from New Delhi, 32% from Mumbai, 39% from Bengaluru and 53% from Thiruvananthapuram. Monsoon clouds may hide it; the sutak is kept all the same. The city table above gives every time.

Every time on this page is for the city named at the top, Columbus now. Choose your own city with ‘Change city’, or see the table of 15 Indian cities.

12 hours before the sparsha of a solar eclipse and 9 hours before that of a lunar eclipse, until moksha. It applies only where the eclipse can be seen.

No. A grahan and its sutak are kept only where the eclipse is seen. That is why this page marks every eclipse as a grahan or not for your own city.

It is an astronomical eclipse: the Moon passes only through the Earth's faint outer shadow and dims a little. Under the sutak convention used on this page, penumbral-only eclipses do not trigger sutak.

2027: 5 eclipses (2 solar, 3 lunar); a grahan in Columbus: none. 2028: 5 eclipses (2 solar, 3 lunar); a grahan in Columbus: 11 Jan, 26 Jan.

Customs differ between families and regions. Commonly, cooking and eating pause during the sutak, cooked food and water are kept covered with tulsi leaves, temple doors close and new work is not begun. Many spend the time in japa, prayer or quiet. Children, the elderly and the unwell are traditionally exempt.

After moksha it is customary to bathe, put on fresh clothes, sprinkle Ganga jal at home, cook fresh food and give daan. Temples reopen after they are cleaned, usually soon after moksha.

Many families ask expecting mothers to stay indoors and rest quietly during the grahan, a custom handed down through generations. For any question about health, your doctor is the right person to ask.

Never look at the Sun directly, even when only a little of it is covered, and not through sunglasses. Use certified solar viewers (ISO 12312-2), or a pinhole projector: look at the image it casts on paper or the ground, never through the hole. Never point a telescope, binoculars or a camera at the Sun without a certified solar filter fitted on the front; eclipse glasses do not protect you behind magnifying optics. Watching a livestream is safe. A lunar eclipse is safe to watch with the eyes alone, or through binoculars.

The partial lunar eclipse of Tuesday, 11 January 2028 falls in Gemini, Punarvasu nakshatra (pada 3). How it falls for each rashi, counted from the Moon sign, is shown above.

It begins on the night of 31 December 2028 and ends at 12:07 AM on 1 January 2029 (IST). The panchang's day runs from sunrise to sunrise, so it is the grahan of 31 December.

Sparsha is the moment the grahan begins, madhya the moment it is greatest, and moksha the moment it ends.

They come from our own engine and agree with NASA's eclipse figures within a few seconds; the checks, with sources, are under ‘How we calculate’. A start is printed rounded down to the minute and an end rounded up, so a printed grahan never starts late or ends early; madhya is to the nearest minute.