Solar Eclipse 2024 California Time

The Solar eclipse starts at around 10:30 a.m. and lasts to noon, depending on where you are in California. You can find the exact time when the partial eclipse begins and ends, and how much the sun is covered on the NASA website.

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, United States, and Canada. Across the three nations, the unusual occurrence will cut a narrow swath of darkness heading eastward.

Watch live with us as a total solar eclipse moves across North America on April 8, 2024, traveling through Mexico, across the United States from Texas to Maine, and out across Canada’s Atlantic coast.

To see NASA’s broadcast in Spanish, a live stream of sounding rocket launches during the eclipse, and more, click below.

Experience the Eclipse

A total solar eclipse will span the North American continent, dazzling millions of people in Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

You can still follow its trajectory by scrolling down from this page, even if you don’t happen to live along that path.

To get you oriented, we’ll show you a North American map upside down, with the eclipse’s entrance point at the top and the exit point at the bottom.

Before making its way to Mexico, the eclipse’s shadow will touch down on Earth in the Pacific Ocean.

The eclipse, once it reaches Mexico, will travel just under an hour and forty minutes until it reaches the easternmost point of Canada.

The average width of the route that individuals will experience a total solar eclipse is 183 kilometers, or 115 miles.

The path of the eclipse across the continent will take it through multiple time zones. The times displayed below are in both local and GMT time. Keep in mind that British Summer Time adds an extra hour to the clock in the UK.

Also Read : Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024

Safety

Looking directly at the Sun without specialist eye protection for solar gazing is dangerous, except during the brief total phase of a solar eclipse, when the Moon entirely conceals the Sun’s brilliant face.

If you don’t have a specialized solar filter fastened to the front of your optics—be it a camera lens, binoculars, or a telescope—you are inviting instant and irreversible damage to your eyes.

Always use safe solar viewing glasses (“eclipse glasses”) or a portable solar viewer when looking directly at the sun during the partial stages of an eclipse, which occur before and after totality. A pinhole projector or another indirect viewing method is also an option.​