Eclipse Calendar 2026

Grahan 2026 in India: Dates, IST Times, Visibility and Sutak

2026 had four eclipses, and India saw only one of them. The total lunar eclipse of 3 March 2026 rose over India as a partial eclipse at moonrise (in New Delhi from 6:22 PM to 6:47 PM IST), so sutak was kept that day. The solar eclipses of 17 February and 12 August and the partial lunar eclipse of 28 August were not visible from India, so no sutak applied. The next grahan visible in India is the partial solar eclipse of Monday 2 August 2027 (New Delhi 3:53 PM to 5:03 PM IST).

All four eclipses of 2026, in IST

The four eclipses (grahan) of 2026 were two Surya Grahan (solar) and two Chandra Grahan (lunar). The times below are for the whole eclipse worldwide, converted to Indian Standard Time; the last two columns say whether the eclipse could be seen from India and whether sutak was kept here.

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Which grahan of 2026 was visible in India?

Only one: the Chandra Grahan of 3 March 2026. That total lunar eclipse began at 3:20 PM IST, while the Moon was still below the horizon in India, so Indians saw only its closing partial phase as the Moon rose in the east — in New Delhi from moonrise at 6:22 PM until the partial phase ended at 6:47 PM IST. The total phase (4:34 PM to 5:32 PM IST) happened before moonrise. The other three eclipses of 2026 took place while the Sun or Moon was below the Indian horizon, so they could not be seen from anywhere in India.

Was sutak kept in India in 2026?

Sutak was kept in India for one eclipse of 2026, the lunar eclipse of 3 March. Tradition starts sutak 9 hours before a lunar eclipse (12 hours before a solar eclipse) and ends it when the eclipse ends; for 3 March that meant from about 6:20 AM until 6:47 PM IST. For the eclipses of 17 February, 12 August and 28 August no sutak applied in India, because a grahan carries ritual weight only where it is actually visible.

Next grahan in India: Monday 2 August 2027

The next eclipse visible from India is the solar eclipse of Monday 2 August 2027. It is total along a path across Spain, North Africa and Arabia, and partial from India in the late afternoon: in New Delhi it begins at 3:53 PM, peaks at 4:29 PM with about 17% of the Sun's diameter covered, and ends at 5:03 PM IST. Sutak for a visible solar eclipse starts 12 hours earlier. The penumbral lunar eclipse of 20–21 February 2027 is too faint to count as a grahan, so no sutak applies to it. City-wise times are on the Grahan 2027 in India page.

How eclipses are read in Vedic astrology

In Vedic astrology an eclipse happens when the Sun and Moon meet near Rahu or Ketu, the lunar nodes. Medini Jyotish, the branch that reads events for countries, treats a grahan as ritually significant — sutak, fasting, temple closure — only in regions where it is visible; an eclipse below the Indian horizon is astronomically real but ritually a normal day here. For a person, what matters is the house of the birth chart in which the eclipse falls and the dasha running at the time, not the eclipse alone. Read more in eclipses in Medini Jyotish.

Consult on an eclipse's effect on your chart

Whether a grahan affects you personally depends on your own kundli — the house it falls in and the dasha it activates. Dr. R.P. Sharma, a Vedic astrologer since 1979, reads the full kundli online for clients across India and abroad at one flat fee of ₹5,100. Consulting from abroad? See NRI astrology guidance.