--- title: When Is the Next Total Solar Eclipse After August 21, 2017? description: After the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, here's the next time you'll be able to see a total eclipse from the US. canonical: https://time.com/4877839/next-total-solar-eclipse-2017-time-path/ author: Lucinda Shen article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-20T10:00:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T05:17:10.000Z article:section: Science og:title: When Is the Next Total Solar Eclipse in the U.S.? og:description: Here's when the next eclipse will be after Aug. 21, 2017 og:url: https://time.com/4877839/next-total-solar-eclipse-2017-time-path/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6dd2dfdaff8cec54/6988d7800b72e355736eed42/gettyimages-595244018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4079 og:image:height: 2294 og:image:alt: Total full Sollar Eclipse in Belitung, Indonesia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: When Is the Next Total Solar Eclipse in the U.S.? twitter:description: Here's when the next eclipse will be after Aug. 21, 2017 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6dd2dfdaff8cec54/6988d7800b72e355736eed42/gettyimages-595244018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # When Is the Next Total Solar Eclipse in the U.S.? > Sponsored content. 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NurPhoto via Getty Images by [Lucinda Shen](https://time.com/author/lucinda-shen/) ## Lucinda Shen Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:17 AM UTCPublished: Aug 20, 2017 10:00 AM UTC A [total solar eclipse, ](http://time.com/4834676/total-solar-eclipse-2017-rare/)which you can [watch live on TIME.com](http://time.com/4900148/total-solar-eclipse-time-livestream) beginning at 12 p.m. ET Monday, will block out the sun across the U.S. on Aug. 21 in a major event that’s been dubbed the [“Great American Eclipse”](http://time.com/4750899/total-solar-eclipse/) — but it won’t be the first or last time the country will see the astronomical phenomenon. To witness the next total solar eclipse in the U.S., though, Americans will have to wait another seven years. The Aug. 21 total solar eclipse is unique in that it will be visible all across the U.S., with the moon appearing to completely blot out the sun in parts of 14 different states at different times throughout the day. That includes parts of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North and South Carolina. The eclipse will start in Lincoln Beach, Oregon at 9:05 a.m. PDT and end in Charleston, S.C. at 4:09 p.m. EDT. For those in the path of the total solar eclipse, it will last two minutes and 40 seconds at most. **_NEXT:_** [**_Watch the Whole Total Solar Eclipse in 4 Minutes_**](http://time.com/4900280/total-solar-eclipse-2017-video-watch/) After Aug. 21 passes, the next total solar eclipse visible from Earth will pass through parts of South America and the South Pacific July 2, 2019, when the lunar disk will cover the sun for up to 4 minutes and 33 seconds. But the U.S. will have to wait [another seven years](http://time.com/4834676/total-solar-eclipse-2017-rare/) for the next total solar eclipse to fall within its borders. According to NASA, on April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will stretch diagonally across the U.S. from Texas through the Northeast U.S. Here’s a map showing the path of the 2024 total solar eclipse:  Courtesy of \[f500link\]Google\[/f500link\] Maps The total eclipse’s path will notably hit Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill., which is also going to see a total solar eclipse on Aug. 21\. The university is touting itself as the [“Eclipse Crossroads of America”](http://eclipse.siu.edu/) and has many events planned for the upcoming eclipse. Before Aug. 21, the last time a total solar eclipse was visible from the contiguous U.S. was in 1979\. At the time, only the Northwest U.S. was able to witness the sight, according to [NASA](https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle1951/SE1979Feb26Tgoogle.html). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4877839/next-total-solar-eclipse-2017-time-path/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4877839/next-total-solar-eclipse-2017-time-path/"},"headline":"When Is the Next Total Solar Eclipse in the U.S.?","datePublished":"2017-08-20T10:00:40.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T05:17:10.000Z","description":"Here's when the next eclipse will be after Aug. 21, 2017","url":"https://time.com/4877839/next-total-solar-eclipse-2017-time-path/","keywords":["Eclipse","Space","solar eclipse","onetime","space 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6dd2dfdaff8cec54/6988d7800b72e355736eed42/gettyimages-595244018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lucinda Shen","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lucinda-shen/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6dd2dfdaff8cec54/6988d7800b72e355736eed42/gettyimages-595244018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Total full Sollar Eclipse in Belitung, Indonesia","caption":"Total full Sollar Eclipse in Belitung, Indonesia","creditText":"NurPhoto via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/eclipse/","name":"Eclipse"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4877839/next-total-solar-eclipse-2017-time-path/","name":"When Is the Next Total Solar Eclipse in the U.S.?"}}]}] ```