The Five Eclipses of 2027, and Which India Sees

There are five eclipses in 2027. An annular solar eclipse on 6 February is not visible from India. A penumbral lunar eclipse around 20–21 February is. A penumbral lunar eclipse on 18 July is visible from India. The total solar eclipse of 2 August is partial in the far northwest. A penumbral lunar eclipse on 17 August is not a spectacle for most of the country.

Four of the five fall on the Makara–Karka axis, which is where Rahu and Ketu travel from December 2026. The February lunar eclipse sits in Simha, Magha. Sidereal signs are Lahiri. A tropical write-up will name different rashis for the same hour. If your pandit and a Western app disagree about the sign, they are not watching different eclipses. They are labelling the sky differently.

Visibility is part of the rite

Household tradition keeps sutak where the eclipse is seen: a longer window before a solar eclipse than before a lunar one. A penumbral lunar eclipse is often too faint for a sutak. Do not fast for an eclipse that does not touch your sky, and do not ignore one that does because a foreign site said “not much.” The August solar eclipse, the one northwest India actually meets, is written on its own: 2 August 2027.

Questions people keep asking

How many eclipses are there in 2027?

Five. Two solar, three lunar. India does not see all of them.

Does an eclipse abroad affect an Indian chart?

The sky is one sky. Sutak and public rite follow local visibility. Chart work can still note the eclipse degree. It does not replace the dasha.