December 20, 2029 Total Lunar Eclipse in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL Metro Area, Florida, USA

Dec 20, 2029 at 5:42 pm

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Global Event:	Total Lunar Eclipse
Local Type:	Total Lunar Eclipse in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL Metro Area, Florida
Begins:	Thu, Dec 20, 2029 at 5:31 pm
Maximum:	Thu, Dec 20, 2029 at 5:42 pm 1.117 Magnitude
Ends:	Thu, Dec 20, 2029 at 8:41 pm
Duration:	3 hours, 10 minutes
All times shown on this page are local time.

December 20, 2029 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL Metro Area

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Thu, Dec 20, 2029 at 2:37 pm EST

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The animation shows what the eclipse approximately looks like. Stages and times of the eclipse are outlined below.

Time	Phase	Event	Direction	Altitude
2:42 pm Thu, Dec 20	Not directly visible	Penumbral Eclipse begins Below horizon	39°	-29.6°
3:55 pm Thu, Dec 20	Not directly visible	Partial Eclipse begins Below horizon	52°	-18.4°
5:15 pm Thu, Dec 20	Not directly visible	Total Eclipse begins Below horizon	62°	-3.9°
5:31 pm Thu, Dec 20	Rising	Moonrise Rising, but the combination of a very low moon and the total eclipse phase will make the moon so dim that it will be extremely difficult to view until moon gets higher in the sky or the total phase ends.	64°	-0.2°
5:42 pm Thu, Dec 20		Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow. Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to East-northeast. Additionally, the eclipsed moon combined with dimming near horizon might make the Moon very hard or impossible to see.	65°	1.6°
6:08 pm Thu, Dec 20		Total Eclipse ends Total moon eclipse ends. Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to East-northeast.	67°	6.7°
7:28 pm Thu, Dec 20		Partial Eclipse ends Partial moon eclipse ends.	74°	23.1°
8:41 pm Thu, Dec 20		Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends.	80°	38.5°

The curvature of the shadow's path and the apparent rotation of the Moon's disk is due to the Earth's rotation.

In the past, this day was cloudy 64% of the time (since 2000).

Lunar Eclipses

Eclipse Visibility From Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL Metro Area		Visibility Worldwide
	Mar 3, 2026 Total Lunar Eclipse	Total Lunar Eclipse
	Aug 27–28, 2026 Partial Lunar Eclipse	Partial Lunar Eclipse
	Feb 20, 2027 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse	Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
	Aug 17, 2027 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse	Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
	Jan 11–12, 2028 Partial Lunar Eclipse	Partial Lunar Eclipse
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