When Is The Next Total Solar Eclipse For Tucson, Arizona?
You’ll have a long, long wait. October 15, 2498! Even the closest near-miss total eclipse for Tucson is not until the eclipse of November 20, 2207. With waits of this magnitude, it looks like you’ll be doing a bit of traveling if you want to see a total solar eclipse. The next reasonably close-by one will be August 21, 2017, which you could witness from parts of Idaho and Wyoming around noon that day. You don’t have all that long to wait for the next solar eclipse, however. It’s May 20, 2012, just about sunset. As the sun is going down, the northeast quarter of Arizona will see an annular eclipse, where the moon moves completely across the solar disc but is too small to totally eclipse it. It’s worth the look, especially at sunset. Draw a line from Winslow to just south of Carson City, NV. North of this line, there will be an annular eclipse, around 7:35 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (most of the area is in the Navajo Nation reserve which observes Daylight Saving Time). The sun sets befo
