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Partial solar eclipse September 2025: Everything you need to know about the 'equinox' solar eclipse

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By Jamie Carter last updated 18 September 2025

Some remote regions will experience a partial solar eclipse on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. The best places to see it will be in Antarctica and New Zealand.

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On Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, a deep partial solar eclipse will be visible from some remote areas of the Southern Hemisphere.

Despite being a partial equinox.

The Sept. 21 event will be the second and final solar eclipse of 2025. The maximum 80% partial eclipse will be visible from the Southern Ocean midway between New Zealand and a largely remote part of Antarctica, with the more frequently visited Antarctica Peninsula experiencing only a 12% partial eclipse, shortly before sunset.

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When is the September 2025 partial solar eclipse?

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As moon — will occur in a remote part of the far South Pacific Ocean, south of New Zealand, and close to Antarctica. The closest landmasses to that point are the uninhabited Balleny Islands (owned by New Zealand), where a 78% partial solar eclipse will begin 10 minutes after sunrise. It's a similar scenario for Zucchelli Station, an Italian research station (72%); and McMurdo Station (69%), a U.S. station on the southern tip of Ross Island and the largest community in Antarctica, with up to 1,500 people.

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southern lights (aurora australis) season. The South Island's Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve — the largest preserved dark sky in the world — will see a 70% eclipse.

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Stewart Island, New Zealand, will see a 73% partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21, 2025, toward the end of its aurora season. (Image credit: Jan. 14, 2029: North America, Central America and Greenland
  • July 11, 2029: Patagonia (Chile and Argentina) and the Antarctic Peninsula
  • NASA's eclipse website. Read more about solar and lunar eclipses on Xavier Jubier's eclipse website. You can find climate and weather predictions by meteorologist Jay Anderson on https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/books/atlas-of-solar-eclipses-2020-to-2045
  • Jubier, X. (n.d.). Solar eclipses: Interactive Google Maps. Retrieved Oct. 31, fromhttps://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/
  • Cameron Smith, I. Partial Solar Eclipse of 21 Sep, 2025 AD. Retrieved Oct. 31, 2024, from https://moonblink.info/Eclipse/eclipse/2025_09_21.
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