Solar eclipses 2029 and 2030: what to see in Germany and Central Europe
On Saturday, 1 June 2030, a large partial solar eclipse is visible across Germany in the morning. Depending on location, it starts between 6:11 and 6:25 CEST, reaches maximum between 7:14 and 7:25, and ends between 8:21 and 8:32. The south and south-east see the most: around 71 % of the Sun’s diameter (62 % of its area) is covered in München, 66 % (57 % of the area) in Berlin and Frankfurt, 63 % (52 % of the area) in Hamburg and just under 62 % (around 50 % of the area) on Sylt. The annular “ring of fire” is visible over North Africa, Greece, Turkey, Russia, northern China and Japan; Germany sees a partial eclipse.
Before that, on Tuesday, 12 June 2029, a much smaller partial eclipse occurs shortly after sunrise: up to about 20 % of the diameter (10 % of the area) in the north and east, but often only a sliver or practically nothing in the south.
Eclipse finder: 1 June 2030 (free, runs in your browser)
Choose a city or use your location to see the start, maximum, end and coverage. Your location is processed only in your browser; no data is sent. The smaller eclipse on 12 June 2029 is listed in the table further down.
Locations between cities are interpolated from a 0.5° grid. Calculations assume sea level. Never look at the Sun without protection: use eclipse glasses meeting ISO 12312-2.
Times and coverage on 1 June 2030
Sorted by coverage (diameter). Maximum is the moment of greatest eclipse; the Sun is already 15–20° high in the east-north-east. Coverage = fraction of the Sun’s diameter / fraction of its area.
| Location | Start | Maximum | End | Coverage | Sun altitude at max. | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passau | 6:13 | 7:15 | 8:24 | 72 % / 63 % | 18,2° | 77° |
| Garmisch-Partenkirchen | 6:12 | 7:13 | 8:21 | 72 % / 63 % | 16,1° | 75° |
| Zugspitze | 6:12 | 7:13 | 8:20 | 72 % / 63 % | 16,0° | 75° |
| München | 6:13 | 7:14 | 8:22 | 71 % / 62 % | 16,8° | 75° |
| Augsburg | 6:14 | 7:15 | 8:22 | 70 % / 61 % | 16,5° | 75° |
| Regensburg | 6:14 | 7:16 | 8:23 | 70 % / 61 % | 17,6° | 76° |
| Konstanz | 6:13 | 7:14 | 8:20 | 70 % / 61 % | 15,0° | 73° |
| Ulm | 6:14 | 7:15 | 8:21 | 70 % / 60 % | 15,9° | 74° |
| Görlitz | 6:17 | 7:20 | 8:28 | 69 % / 60 % | 20,4° | 80° |
| Nürnberg | 6:16 | 7:17 | 8:24 | 69 % / 60 % | 17,1° | 76° |
| Feldberg (Schwarzwald) | 6:14 | 7:14 | 8:20 | 69 % / 60 % | 14,4° | 73° |
| Dresden | 6:17 | 7:20 | 8:28 | 69 % / 59 % | 19,6° | 79° |
| Freiburg im Breisgau | 6:15 | 7:15 | 8:20 | 69 % / 59 % | 14,4° | 73° |
| Stuttgart | 6:15 | 7:16 | 8:22 | 68 % / 59 % | 15,6° | 74° |
| Chemnitz | 6:17 | 7:19 | 8:27 | 68 % / 59 % | 19,0° | 78° |
| Cottbus | 6:18 | 7:21 | 8:29 | 68 % / 59 % | 20,3° | 80° |
| Baden-Baden | 6:16 | 7:16 | 8:21 | 68 % / 58 % | 15,0° | 73° |
| Würzburg | 6:17 | 7:17 | 8:24 | 68 % / 58 % | 16,6° | 75° |
| Karlsruhe | 6:16 | 7:16 | 8:22 | 68 % / 58 % | 15,3° | 74° |
| Heidelberg | 6:17 | 7:17 | 8:22 | 67 % / 58 % | 15,6° | 74° |
| Leipzig | 6:18 | 7:20 | 8:27 | 67 % / 58 % | 18,9° | 78° |
| Mannheim | 6:17 | 7:17 | 8:22 | 67 % / 57 % | 15,6° | 74° |
| Erfurt | 6:18 | 7:19 | 8:26 | 67 % / 57 % | 17,9° | 77° |
| Darmstadt | 6:18 | 7:18 | 8:23 | 67 % / 57 % | 15,9° | 74° |
| Berlin | 6:20 | 7:22 | 8:30 | 66 % / 57 % | 20,0° | 79° |
| Frankfurt am Main | 6:18 | 7:18 | 8:23 | 66 % / 57 % | 16,0° | 75° |
| Saarbrücken | 6:17 | 7:17 | 8:21 | 66 % / 57 % | 14,5° | 73° |
| Potsdam | 6:20 | 7:22 | 8:29 | 66 % / 57 % | 19,8° | 79° |
| Mainz | 6:18 | 7:18 | 8:23 | 66 % / 56 % | 15,7° | 74° |
| Wiesbaden | 6:18 | 7:18 | 8:23 | 66 % / 56 % | 15,7° | 74° |
| Magdeburg | 6:20 | 7:21 | 8:28 | 66 % / 56 % | 18,8° | 78° |
| Trier | 6:18 | 7:18 | 8:22 | 65 % / 56 % | 14,6° | 73° |
| Göttingen | 6:20 | 7:20 | 8:26 | 65 % / 55 % | 17,5° | 76° |
| Kassel | 6:20 | 7:20 | 8:26 | 65 % / 55 % | 17,1° | 76° |
| Koblenz | 6:19 | 7:18 | 8:23 | 65 % / 55 % | 15,5° | 74° |
| Braunschweig | 6:21 | 7:22 | 8:28 | 65 % / 55 % | 18,2° | 77° |
| Bonn | 6:20 | 7:19 | 8:24 | 64 % / 54 % | 15,4° | 74° |
| Hannover | 6:22 | 7:22 | 8:27 | 64 % / 54 % | 17,8° | 77° |
| Köln | 6:20 | 7:20 | 8:24 | 64 % / 54 % | 15,4° | 74° |
| Bielefeld | 6:22 | 7:21 | 8:26 | 64 % / 54 % | 16,9° | 76° |
| Wuppertal | 6:21 | 7:20 | 8:24 | 64 % / 54 % | 15,7° | 74° |
| Aachen | 6:20 | 7:19 | 8:23 | 64 % / 54 % | 14,8° | 73° |
| Dortmund | 6:21 | 7:20 | 8:25 | 64 % / 54 % | 16,0° | 74° |
| Bochum | 6:21 | 7:20 | 8:25 | 64 % / 53 % | 15,9° | 74° |
| Düsseldorf | 6:21 | 7:20 | 8:24 | 64 % / 53 % | 15,5° | 74° |
| Schwerin | 6:23 | 7:24 | 8:30 | 64 % / 54 % | 19,4° | 79° |
| Essen | 6:21 | 7:20 | 8:25 | 63 % / 53 % | 15,7° | 74° |
| Rostock | 6:24 | 7:25 | 8:31 | 63 % / 53 % | 20,0° | 80° |
| Duisburg | 6:21 | 7:20 | 8:24 | 63 % / 53 % | 15,6° | 74° |
| Münster | 6:22 | 7:21 | 8:26 | 63 % / 53 % | 16,3° | 75° |
| Osnabrück | 6:22 | 7:22 | 8:26 | 63 % / 53 % | 16,8° | 75° |
| Lübeck | 6:24 | 7:24 | 8:30 | 63 % / 53 % | 19,0° | 78° |
| Hamburg | 6:24 | 7:24 | 8:29 | 63 % / 52 % | 18,5° | 78° |
| Bremen | 6:23 | 7:23 | 8:28 | 62 % / 52 % | 17,6° | 76° |
| Oldenburg | 6:24 | 7:23 | 8:28 | 62 % / 52 % | 17,3° | 76° |
| Kiel | 6:25 | 7:25 | 8:30 | 62 % / 52 % | 18,9° | 78° |
| Emden | 6:25 | 7:24 | 8:28 | 61 % / 51 % | 16,8° | 75° |
| Flensburg | 6:26 | 7:26 | 8:31 | 61 % / 50 % | 18,8° | 78° |
| Sylt (Westerland) | 6:27 | 7:26 | 8:30 | 60 % / 49 % | 18,2° | 77° |
All times are Central European Time (CEST), for the city centre at sea level, rounded to the nearest minute. Our calculations were checked against timeanddate.de on 14 October 2026: Hamburg, Berlin, München, Frankfurt, Kiel, Bremen — matching minutes, area coverage within ±0.6 percentage points. Across Germany, the visible eclipse runs from about 6:11 to 8:32 CEST.
What you will see on 1 June 2030
This is Germany’s best solar eclipse between 2028 and the early 2030s: in the morning, with the Sun already well above the horizon, visible throughout the country, and clearly more than half the disc covered in the south. Daylight becomes noticeably dimmer, shadows look sharper, and eclipse glasses reveal a broad solar crescent.
- Direction: East-north-east to east (around 75–80°). A balcony, park or rooftop will do; a clear western horizon is not needed.
- Duration: a little over two hours from start to finish, with maximum roughly halfway through.
- Weather: Early June often offers better conditions than January. Keep several locations in mind all the same.
- Photos: Use a telephoto lens with a solar filter fitted over the front. Without a filter, photograph only the surroundings (streets, trees), never the Sun.
Watch safely
- Always use eclipse glasses or a filter meeting ISO 12312-2. Ordinary sunglasses are not enough.
- Never look through binoculars, a telescope or a camera viewfinder without a suitable filter, even briefly.
- Without eclipse glasses, view indirectly with a pinhole camera or by projecting through binoculars onto a screen.
Where the eclipse on 1 June 2030 is annular
Along the central path, the Moon appears too small to cover the Sun completely, leaving a bright ring. According to NASA and timeanddate.de, the path of annularity crosses Algeria and Tunisia, Greece and Turkey, then Russia, northern China and Japan. The longest annular phase lasts around 5 minutes 21 seconds. The eclipse remains partial throughout Germany.
The smaller eclipse on 12 June 2029
Globally, this is a partial solar eclipse over the Arctic, Scandinavia and northern Asia (NASA). In Germany, only a small eclipse is visible shortly after sunrise: up to about 20 % of the diameter (10 % of the area) in the north and east, often only a few per cent further south. The Sun is just above the horizon, so a clear north-eastern view helps.
| Location | Start | Maximum | End | Coverage | Sunrise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garmisch-Partenkirchen | 6:12 | 7:13 | 8:21 | 72 % / 63 % | 5:18 |
| Zugspitze | 6:12 | 7:13 | 8:20 | 72 % / 63 % | 5:19 |
| Konstanz | 6:13 | 7:14 | 8:20 | 70 % / 61 % | 5:25 |
| Feldberg (Schwarzwald) | 6:14 | 7:14 | 8:20 | 69 % / 60 % | 5:29 |
| Freiburg im Breisgau | 6:15 | 7:15 | 8:20 | 69 % / 59 % | 5:29 |
| Baden-Baden | 6:16 | 7:16 | 8:21 | 68 % / 58 % | 5:24 |
| Saarbrücken | 6:17 | 7:17 | 8:21 | 66 % / 57 % | 5:26 |
| Sylt (Westerland) | 4:30 | 5:04 | 5:39 | 22 % / 12 % | 4:49 |
| Flensburg | 4:30 | 5:03 | 5:38 | 22 % / 11 % | 4:45 |
| Emden | 4:30 | 5:07 | 5:37 | 21 % / 11 % | 5:03 |
| Kiel | 4:29 | 5:02 | 5:36 | 21 % / 11 % | 4:45 |
| Oldenburg | 4:30 | 5:05 | 5:35 | 20 % / 11 % | 5:00 |
| Bremen | 4:29 | 5:02 | 5:35 | 20 % / 10 % | 4:58 |
| Hamburg | 4:29 | 5:01 | 5:34 | 20 % / 10 % | 4:51 |
| Lübeck | 4:29 | 5:01 | 5:34 | 20 % / 10 % | 4:46 |
| Rostock | 4:29 | 5:01 | 5:34 | 19 % / 10 % | 4:39 |
| Schwerin | 4:29 | 5:00 | 5:33 | 19 % / 10 % | 4:45 |
| Hannover | 4:29 | 5:03 | 5:32 | 19 % / 9 % | 4:59 |
| Braunschweig | 4:28 | 4:59 | 5:31 | 18 % / 9 % | 4:56 |
| Osnabrück | 4:29 | 5:10 | 5:34 | 18 % / 9 % | 5:06 |
| Magdeburg | 4:28 | 4:58 | 5:30 | 18 % / 8 % | 4:53 |
| Bielefeld | 4:29 | 5:10 | 5:33 | 17 % / 8 % | 5:06 |
| Potsdam | 4:28 | 4:58 | 5:29 | 17 % / 8 % | 4:45 |
| Berlin | 4:28 | 4:58 | 5:29 | 17 % / 8 % | 4:43 |
| Göttingen | 4:28 | 5:07 | 5:30 | 17 % / 8 % | 5:03 |
| Leipzig | 4:28 | 4:57 | 5:27 | 16 % / 8 % | 4:54 |
| Münster | 4:29 | 5:14 | 5:33 | 16 % / 8 % | 5:10 |
| Cottbus | 4:27 | 4:56 | 5:26 | 16 % / 7 % | 4:44 |
| Erfurt | 4:28 | 5:05 | 5:28 | 15 % / 7 % | 5:01 |
| Kassel | 4:29 | 5:10 | 5:30 | 15 % / 7 % | 5:06 |
| Chemnitz | 4:28 | 4:59 | 5:25 | 15 % / 7 % | 4:55 |
| Dresden | 4:27 | 4:56 | 5:25 | 15 % / 7 % | 4:50 |
| Görlitz | 4:27 | 4:55 | 5:24 | 15 % / 6 % | 4:45 |
| Dortmund | 4:29 | 5:17 | 5:33 | 14 % / 6 % | 5:13 |
| Bochum | 4:30 | 5:18 | 5:33 | 13 % / 6 % | 5:14 |
| Essen | 4:30 | 5:19 | 5:33 | 13 % / 5 % | 5:15 |
| Duisburg | 4:30 | 5:20 | 5:33 | 12 % / 5 % | 5:16 |
| Wuppertal | 4:30 | 5:20 | 5:32 | 12 % / 5 % | 5:15 |
| Düsseldorf | 4:30 | 5:21 | 5:33 | 11 % / 4 % | 5:17 |
| Köln | 4:30 | 5:22 | 5:32 | 9 % / 3 % | 5:18 |
| Nürnberg | 4:28 | 5:13 | 5:24 | 9 % / 3 % | 5:09 |
| Würzburg | 4:28 | 5:16 | 5:26 | 9 % / 3 % | 5:12 |
| Regensburg | 4:28 | 5:11 | 5:22 | 9 % / 3 % | 5:07 |
| Bonn | 4:29 | 5:22 | 5:31 | 8 % / 3 % | 5:18 |
| Passau | 4:27 | 5:08 | 5:19 | 8 % / 3 % | 5:04 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 4:29 | 5:19 | 5:28 | 8 % / 3 % | 5:15 |
| Koblenz | 4:29 | 5:22 | 5:30 | 7 % / 2 % | 5:18 |
| Wiesbaden | 4:29 | 5:21 | 5:29 | 7 % / 2 % | 5:17 |
| Darmstadt | 4:29 | 5:20 | 5:28 | 7 % / 2 % | 5:17 |
| Mainz | 4:29 | 5:22 | 5:29 | 7 % / 2 % | 5:18 |
| Aachen | 4:30 | 5:26 | 5:32 | 6 % / 2 % | 5:22 |
Times in CEST; our calculations were checked against timeanddate.de (Hamburg, Berlin, Kiel, Bremen, München, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf). Locations with under 1 % area coverage: Augsburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, München, Stuttgart, Trier, Ulm — practically invisible there.
New moon and the eclipse sequence
Every solar eclipse falls at new moon. The new moon on 1 June 2030 is in Gemini in the tropical zodiac; the one on 12 June 2029 is also in Gemini, shortly before the summer solstice. In astrology, eclipse new moons mark powerful beginnings. The astronomical times above are exact regardless of that interpretation.
The sequence of solar eclipses visible from Germany in these years:
| Date | Type in Germany | Overview |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Aug 2027 | partial | across the country, morning — 2027 details |
| 26 Jan 2028 | partial at sunset | west/south, often invisible in the north-east — 2028 details |
| 12 June 2029 | partial at sunrise | small, better in the north/east (this page) |
| 1 June 2030 | partial in the morning | large, across Germany (finder above) |
Related: Solar eclipse on 26 January 2028, Solar eclipse on 2 August 2027, Lunar eclipses and blood moon 2028, New moon dates 2028, Full moon dates 2028, Moon calendar 2028 for gardening and haircuts, Subscribe to the moon calendar, Today’s moon phase.
A printed calendar for 2029/2030 is not yet available. Until then, try the printable moon calendar 2027 (€9.90, PDF for A4, A5 and tablet), with every moon phase timed to the minute, the moon sign for each day and the 2027 eclipses. Download it straight away.
Find out more →More on Cosmolytic: every solar eclipse is a new moon close to the lunar nodes; the ones on 12 June 2029 and 1 June 2030 both fall in Gemini. Plus the Sun in a birth chart.
Frequently asked questions
Is the solar eclipse on 1 June 2030 visible in Germany and Central Europe?
Yes, as a partial morning eclipse throughout Germany, from about 6:11 to 8:32 CEST. At maximum, around 71 % of the Sun’s diameter (62 % of its area) is covered in the south and around 62–63 % (50–52 % of the area) in the north.
How much of the Sun is covered on 1 June 2030?
München: about 71 % of the diameter / 62 % of the area; Berlin and Frankfurt: 66 % / 57 %; Hamburg: 63 % / 52 %; Sylt: just under 62 % / 50 %. Our calculations match timeanddate.de to the minute and within ±1 percentage point of area coverage.
Is the 2030 solar eclipse annular in Germany?
No. The annular path crosses North Africa, Greece, Turkey, Russia, northern China and Japan. The eclipse remains partial throughout Germany.
What about the solar eclipse on 12 June 2029?
In Germany, only a small eclipse is visible shortly after sunrise: up to about 20 % of the diameter (10 % of the area) in the north and east, often just a sliver in the south. See the table on this page for details.
Which direction should I look on 1 June 2030?
East-north-east to east, about 75–80 degrees. At maximum the Sun is already 15–20 degrees high, so a balcony or park will do; a clear western horizon is not needed.
Which solar eclipses are visible in Germany before then?
On 2 August 2027 (partial, across Germany) and 26 January 2028 (partial just before sunset, mainly in the west and south).
Sources
- NASA Eclipse Website: Solar Eclipses 2021–2030
- timeanddate.de: Partial solar eclipse, 1 June 2030, in Germany
- timeanddate.de: Partial solar eclipse, 12 June 2029, in Germany
- Wikipedia: Solar eclipse of 1 June 2030
- NASA Science: Eclipse Safety
Responsible: Maximilian Stroh, Anonyfox e. K., Hamburg