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Surya Grahan 2026 (solar eclipses)

Every solar eclipse of 2026 is below, for your city: whether it is seen there, its times, and the vedha, popularly sūtak, with what the texts say.

Not seen from Delhi

Total solar eclipse

Wednesday, 12 August 2026

Below the horizon here: an astronomical event only.

The 12 August eclipse in full

To watch a solar eclipse, use certified eclipse glasses or a pinhole projector; never look at the Sun directly, through cloth or in water.

What counts as an eclipse here

Only an eclipse fit to be seen with the eye has a holy time. Where the body sets eclipsed there is none after the setting, and where it rises eclipsed none before the rising. Dharmasindhu p. 26; Nirṇaya-sindhu pp. 103⁠–⁠106

Clouds do not cancel it: the contact and release times are taken from the computation, and the bath and gifts go ahead. Dharmasindhu p. 26; Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 106

A penumbral lunar eclipse has no shadow bite, so by our reading of the Dharmasindhu’s “fit to be seen” it is not reckoned as a grahaṇa. For a lunar eclipse, the contacts that count are the umbral ones. Dharmasindhu p. 26

Solar eclipse,
Tuesday 17 February 2026

Annular · each city’s own time

Not seen from Delhi: an eclipse below the horizon carries no holy time, no vedha and no rites there. Dharmasindhu p. 26; Nirṇaya-sindhu pp. 103⁠–⁠106

Astronomy only: greatest eclipse at Tue 17 Feb, 17:41, Delhi time.

Solar eclipse,
Wednesday 12 August 2026

Total · each city’s own time

Not seen from Delhi: an eclipse below the horizon carries no holy time, no vedha and no rites there. Dharmasindhu p. 26; Nirṇaya-sindhu pp. 103⁠–⁠106

Astronomy only: greatest eclipse at Wed 12 Aug, 23:15, Delhi time.

Questions

From the Dharmasindhu and the Nirṇaya-sindhu, with the page for each.

When are the solar eclipses in 2026?

Tuesday, 17 February 2026 (annular); Wednesday, 12 August 2026 (total). None is seen from Delhi.

Will the 17 February eclipse be seen in India?

No. It is below the horizon from every Indian city listed here, so it is an astronomical event only there.

How can I watch it safely?

To watch a solar eclipse, use certified eclipse glasses or a pinhole projector; never look at the Sun directly, through cloth or in water.

What do the texts say to do during an eclipse?

They give the order: bathe at the first contact; homa, worship and śrāddha in the middle; gifts while it releases; and the bath after the release. Dharmasindhu p. 26; Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 92

How the eclipses are found

Read the methodology
The eclipses
Every solar and lunar eclipse whose greatest phase falls in the year, with each city’s own contacts.
What counts
Only an eclipse fit to be seen at the city. One below the horizon throughout, or a penumbral one, is astronomy only there.
The vedha
Whole praharas, quarters of the city’s own day and night, before the prahara of the first contact seen there.
By birth sign
The eclipsed body’s sidereal sign and star at greatest eclipse, by the Lahiri ayanamsa, which is our reading.

Lahiri ayanamsa for the sign and star · each city’s own time · Swiss Ephemeris · Method