March 2025 lunar eclipse

Total lunar eclipse March 14, 2025
Ecliptic north up The Moon will pass west to east (right to left) through the Earth's shadow.
Saros (and member)	123 (53 of 73)
Gamma	+0.3484
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:05:24
Partial	3:38:15
Penumbral	6:02:37
Contacts (UTC)
P1	3:57:24
U1	5:09:33
U2	6:25:59
Greatest	6:58:42
U3	7:31:23
U4	8:47:48
P4	10:00:01

A total lunar eclipse will take place on Friday, March 14, 2025.

Visibility[]

It will be completely visible from the Americas, will be seen rising over New Zealand and eastern Asia, and setting over western Europe and western Africa.

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.

Lunar year series[]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2024–2027
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date	Type Viewing	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
113	2024 Mar 25	Penumbral	118	2024 Sep 18	Partial
123	2025 Mar 14	Total	128	2025 Sep 07	Total
133	2026 Mar 03	Total	138	2026 Aug 28	Partial
143	2027 Feb 20	Penumbral	148	2027 Aug 17	Penumbral

Last set	2023 May 05		Last set	2023 Oct 28

Next set	2028 Jan 12		Next set	2027 Jul 18

Saros series[]

Lunar saros series 123, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has 25 total lunar eclipses. The first total lunar eclipse of this series was on , and last will be on . The two longest occurrence of this series were on and when totality lasted 106 minutes.

It last occurred on March 3, 2007 and will next occur on March 25, 2043.

Metonic cycles (19 years)[]

The Metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years and represents a Saros cycle plus one lunar year. Because it occurs on the same calendar date, the earth's shadow will in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.

2006 Mar 14.99 - penumbral (113) 2025 Mar 14.29 - total (123) 2044 Mar 13.82 - total (133) - partial (143)	2006 Sep 07.79 - partial (118) 2025 Sep 07.76 - total (128) 2044 Sep 07.47 - partial (138) - penumbral (148)

Half-Saros cycle[]

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 130.