Overview
- NASA’s official timeline lists the phases at 08:44 UTC (penumbral start), 09:50 UTC (partial start), 11:04–12:02 UTC (totality), peak at 11:33 UTC, and final end near 14:22 UTC.
- The full sequence lasts about 5 hours 39 minutes, with roughly 58 minutes of totality in the first lunar eclipse of 2026.
- Totality favors East Asia, Australia and wide swaths of the Pacific, with early‑morning visibility in North and Central America and the far west of South America, while most of Europe and Africa miss the main phases.
- In the U.S., the total phase is expected roughly from 6:04–7:02 a.m. ET, 5:04–6:02 a.m. CT, 4:04–5:02 a.m. MT, and 3:04–4:02 a.m. PT, with moonset limiting views in the East.
- Viewing is safe to the naked eye; darker locations improve the experience, many observatories and streams will cover the event, and experts estimate about 2.5 billion people can see at least part of it.