title: Solar eclipse of September 21, 2025
text: # Solar eclipse of September 21, 2025
  
  A partial solar eclipse will occur on September 21, 2025. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
  
  ## Images
  
  Animated path
  
  ## Related eclipses
  
  ### Eclipses of 2025
  
  * A total lunar eclipse on March 14.
  * A partial solar eclipse on March 29.
  * A total lunar eclipse on September 7.
  * A partial solar eclipse on September 21.
  
  ### Solar eclipses of 2022–2025
  
  This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.
  
  Solar eclipse series sets from 2022–2025 :
  
  | Ascending node | Ascending node | Ascending node | Descending node | Descending node | Descending node |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma |
  | 119 Partial from Santiago, Chile | 2022 April 30 Partial | -1.19008 | 124 Partial from Saratov, Russia | 2022 October 25 Partial | 1.07014 |
  | 129 Partial from Magetan, Indonesia | 2023 April 20 Hybrid | -0.39515 | 134 | 2023 October 14 Annular | 0.37534 |
  | 139 | 2024 April 8 Total | 0.34314 | 144 | 2024 October 2 Annular | -0.35087 |
  | 149 | 2025 March 29 Partial | 1.04053 | 154 | 2025 September 21 Partial | -1.06509 |
  
  ### Metonic series
  
  The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.
  
  21 eclipse events, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029 :
  
  | July 10–12 | April 29–30 | February 15–16 | December 4–5 | September 21–23 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 116 | 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 |
  | July 11, 1953 | April 30, 1957 | February 15, 1961 | December 4, 1964 | September 22, 1968 |
  | 126 | 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 |
  | July 10, 1972 | April 29, 1976 | February 16, 1980 | December 4, 1983 | September 23, 1987 |
  | 136 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 |
  | July 11, 1991 | April 29, 1995 | February 16, 1999 | December 4, 2002 | September 22, 2006 |
  | 146 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
  | July 11, 2010 | April 29, 2014 | February 15, 2018 | December 4, 2021 | September 21, 2025 |
  | 156 | 158 | 160 | 162 | 164 |
  | July 11, 2029 |
  