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Surya Grahan (Solar Eclipse), 2 August 2027: Date, Time in India & Visibility

Grahan is also called grahanam in Telugu and Tamil; how many grahan fall in 2027 and which are visible in India is answered below.

Grahan 2027 and pregnancy: the only eclipse that counts as a grahan in India in 2027 is the partial solar eclipse of the afternoon of Monday 2 August 2027 (about 3:44 to 5:49 pm IST, depending on the city). Tradition asks pregnant women to stay indoors during the eclipse and avoid cutting or sewing, with sutak observed from 12 hours before; there is no medical evidence that an eclipse harms a pregnancy, so follow your doctor's advice on food, rest and medicines.

2 August 2027 is the next eclipse India will actually see — and the only one in 2027 that carries sutak here. It is a total solar eclipse globally, partial from India: Delhi sees the Sun 8% covered between 3:53 and 5:02 PM IST, Mumbai 32%, Bengaluru 39%, Kochi 50%. The other four eclipses of 2027 are either at night, in daylight, or penumbral — none of them imposes sutak in India.

Grahan 2027 in India: the complete list

Quick answer: 2027 has five eclipses — two solar and three lunar. Only one is visible from India: the total solar eclipse of Monday 2 August 2027, seen as a partial eclipse across India between about 3:45 PM and 5:50 PM IST (deepest in the south: 50% in Kochi, 8% in Delhi). All three lunar eclipses of 2027 are penumbral, so no sutak applies to them in the Parashari tradition. Timings below are computed with the Swiss Ephemeris in Indian Standard Time.

2 August 2027 Surya Grahan: city-wise timings and coverage

The path of totality runs across southern Spain, North Africa, Egypt (Luxor) and the Arabian Peninsula; India sees a partial eclipse that deepens toward the south-west. Never look at the partially eclipsed Sun without certified eclipse glasses. For the Vedic reading — which rashis are most affected and the Rahu–Ketu axis of the day — see the sections below, and for personal timing use the free kundli report.

The 2 August 2027 total solar eclipse

The 2 August 2027 total solar eclipse has one of the longest totalities on land in decades, its path crossing southern Spain, North Africa and Arabia and lingering over Egypt for over six minutes.

Looking for all the 2027 eclipses rather than this one? See Grahan 2027: all five eclipse dates and which one India sees — of the five, only this 2 August solar grahan carries sutak in India.

Part of our Grahan August 2026 Hub — both eclipses, timings and the sutak truth in one place.

By Dr. R.P. Sharma, Vedic astrologer since 1979 · Ph.D. & M.A. Acharya

Every century of eclipses has its crown, and this one's arrives on Monday, 2 August 2027: a total solar eclipse whose shadow crosses southern Spain, sweeps North Africa and Arabia, and lingers over Egypt for more than six minutes of totality — one of the longest totalities on land in decades (about 6 minutes 20 seconds near Luxor). For India the event raises a sharper question than 2026's northern eclipses did: parts of the country may catch partial phases near sunset. Here is the eclipse, the India question answered honestly, and the reading.

The path of the century's eclipse

The umbra makes landfall at the Strait of Gibraltar, crossing southern Spain — Cádiz and Málaga under totality a year after the north's 2026 event — then runs the North African coast through Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya into Egypt, where the eclipse achieves its extraordinary maximum: totality exceeding six minutes near Luxor, the Nile's ancient temples under a black Sun. The track continues across the Red Sea to Mecca and southwestern Arabia, then the Horn of Africa, before ending in the Indian Ocean. Durations above six minutes are generational rarities — the product of an eclipse near the Moon's perigee and the Earth's aphelion — and Egypt's tourism ministries have been preparing for years. It is Saros 136's flagship member, the same family that produced the famous long eclipses of the twentieth century.

The India question: partial phases, and the Sutak answer

Now the question this page exists to answer. The totality path stays west of the subcontinent, but the partial phase reaches all of India in the late afternoon of 2 August 2027, well before sunset everywhere: from first contact at 3:44 PM IST in Ahmedabad to last contact at 5:49 PM in Kochi, with the Sun about half covered in Kochi, a third in Mumbai and Chennai, 8% in Delhi and 1% in Guwahati. The classical consequence follows the visibility rule precisely: where the partial eclipse is genuinely visible, local Sutak applies from its span; where the Sun sets untouched, nothing applies. The honest instruction, a year out, is therefore conditional: households in western India should check a current panchang for their own city as the date approaches — the one-line visibility check the grahan guide teaches — and observe or not accordingly. This page will not pretend certainty city by city a year early; the rule, not the rumour, is what travels.

An eclipse over the old world's temples

Symbolically, the 2027 eclipse is unmatched in living memory: totality over Luxor and Thebes — the Sun-god's own precincts darkened at midday — and the path brushing Mecca, with the Mediterranean's oldest coasts under the Moon's shadow in sequence. Mundane astrology's classical method reads a total eclipse toward the lands it shadows, and the specialist literature will read this one for North Africa, Egypt and Arabia in the years flanking it — readings this site grades, as always, with the modesty the mundane explainer argues for. The sidereal placement — the Sun in its Karka region with the nodal axis of the time — will be treated in the year's own analyses nearer the date. For history-minded readers, the resonance is enough: the civilisation that first recorded eclipses with awe will host the century's greatest, on schedule, computed to the second.

Using the year between

For Indian readers, three practical uses of the long notice. Travellers: the eclipse is among the most chase-worthy of a lifetime — southern Spain and Egypt's Nile sites are the premium stations, and serious planning belongs to 2026, not the final months; totality is safe to view only in its total phase, with certified filters mandatory for every partial moment. Householders: mark the conditional Sutak question for 2 August 2027 and resolve it with a local panchang in the preceding weeks — a two-minute discipline. Chart-watchers: those with natal Sun, Moon or nodes near the eclipse's degree will find the flanking weeks worth ordinary steadiness, read with the running dasha — and a personal reading nearer the time can say whether the century's eclipse is, for your chart, an event or merely a spectacle. Most often, honestly, it is the latter — and a magnificent one.

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Correction, 25 September 2026: This page called 2 August 2027 a Sunday; it is a Monday. A question further down gave invented Faridabad timings, including a morning “totality”; it has been removed. From India the eclipse is partial, in the afternoon — see the city table above.