Total Solar eclipse 2024 map

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Plan your next eclipse trip with these maps of the 2024 total solar eclipse's path of totality across the United States, from Texas to Maine.

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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, Greenland and Iceland, the Caribbean, and a small part of northern South America. There’s also another path that’s been drawn around Hawaii. 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 2024 total eclipse!)

PATH OF TOTALITY
Within this valid selection region, we’ve included a drawing of the path of totality 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!)

Xavier Jubier's 2024 Interactive Google eclipse map is now live!

Please read this introduction before going to the page!

UPDATE: Eclipse2024.org's 2024 interactive eclipse map

Eclipse2024.org has created an interactive Google map showing the 2024 total eclipse path, which allows you to easily select a location for study. This page links to all kinds of information about the eclipse for pre-selected cities and states, including community pages, animations of the eclipse and the eclipse2024.org eclipse simulator. It even allows you to select your own custom locations, to see exactly what the eclipse will look like from anywhere in North America!

We certainly encourage you to visit Xavier's page, but please give the Eclipse2024.org interactive eclipse map a try as well!

This is the BEST place on the web to find out EXACTLY what the times of the eclipse will be for any given location!
Find out how you can help this effort!

Before you go to the page, though, please read and understand these IMPORTANT instructions!

Xavier has given us a great help file for his remarkable page, and it has all the (very!) technical information you need.

Here is a quick summary that may also be of help to you:

1) When the map loads, you will need to zoom in and then click anywhere on the map (such as where you intend to view the eclipse from!) to find the local eclipse circumstances for that location.

2) A lot of information will be presented in the popup - most of which you probably don't care about. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF TOTALITY, here is what you DO care about:

C1 - This is the start of the partial phase, when the Moon takes its first very small little bite out of the Sun.
There is going to be an eclipse today for you! (Are you in the path? If not, then it won't be total!)

C2 - The part you've been waiting for: The "Diamond Ring" at the beginning of totality!! This is when you can begin to remove your eclipse glasses, and (as soon as all of the sun's bright disk is covered, and you can't see anything through your eclipse glasses) watch the eclipse with your bare eyes!

Maximum Eclipse (also known as "mid-eclipse") - this is the midpoint of the eclipse. If you are in the path of totality, it is the middle of the total phase.
This is the ONLY time it is ever safe to look at the eclipsed Sun directly! The Moon is covering all of the Sun, and the sight is not any brighter than the full Moon.
THIS is what all the excitement is about, and it is why you MUST be in the path of totality to see the main event!
(In fact, if you try to look at totality through your eclipse glasses during totality, you will not see anything at all!)
(If you are not in the path of totality, you will not see this phase at all - and in that case, you must watch the ENTIRE ECLIPSE through your eclipse glasses!)

C3 - The end of totality. The Moon moves on, the Diamond Ring appears again, and a very small piece of the Sun's bright disk is visible again. (It's really bright!) This is when you have to put your eclipse glasses back on, to protect your eyes.

C4 - The end of the partial phase. A very anticlimactic moment, to say the least.

PLEASE NOTE that the above times, though dutifully given to the tenth of a second on Xavier's great page, are still approximate due to the varying "edge effects" that are difficult to predict exactly. (Though Xavier is among the best in the world at it!) YOU MUST use your eclipse glasses to protect your eyes ANY TIME that ANY piece of the Sun's bright disk is visible!
(If it's bright, then you have to use your eclipse glasses - simple as that!)

PLEASE NOTE that if you do not see any times listed at all in the popup, you have selected a location that will NOT see ANY of the eclipse. NOTHING - no partial, no total, nothing at all!! (That will NOT be a good place to be on eclipse day!)

ALSO NOTE that if you do not see times for C2 and C3 in the popup, that means that the location you selected does not see totality at all. Not only do you have to use your eclipse glasses AT ALL TIMES during the ENTIRE eclipse, but you WILL NOT see the beauty of the total eclipse - and you will wonder what all the fuss was about. This eclipse will end up not being special or memorable for you - and you will truly wonder why everyone else from the path of totality is raving about what they saw there!

PLEASE PLAN to be situated inside the path of totality! (It is very clearly marked on Xavier's map...!)

VERY IMPORTANT!

PLEASE NOTE that all the times you will see on the map are given in what's called Universal Time (UT) - and the times are in 24-hour format, just like the military uses. Pilots and military personnel know this as Zulu time, or even GMT; but for us regular folk, we HAVE to adjust this time to the local time zone as follows:

• PDT: subtract 7 hours from the UT time.
• MDT: subtract 6 hours from the UT time.
• (Except for most of Arizona, which does not observe daylight time, and so will also be UT minus 7 hours.)
• CDT: subtract 5 hours from the UT time.
• EDT: subtract 4 hours from the UT time.
• ADT: subtract 3 hours from the UT time.
• NDT: subtract 2.5 hours from the UT time.

And Xavier has given us a great tool to know which time zone the point we've selected is in! When you open the interactive map page, you'll see a control panel on the left.

If you click on the time zone display icon (shown by the red arrow), then whenever you click a point on the map, a box will pop up to show you the time zone for that point, and the associated time adjustment you must apply to the UT times! (Use the "Local Time" adjustment! And UTC means the same thing as UT.)

*And finally, Xavier has done the entire eclipse community, as well as the general eclipse-viewing public, a great service by performing all the work necessary to bring us this wonderful tool. It is difficult to describe the level of effort and knowledge that is required, and Xavier does this for no more reason than that it is needed; his heart is truly in the right place, and all eclipse chasers owe him a huge debt of gratitude. We therefore ask that you please support Xavier's eclipse calculation efforts by providing any contribution you can, according solely to your ability and desire. We promote this because it is the right thing to do for him, and you can be certain that any support you can give is truly appreciated!

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