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September 7, 2025 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (Geneve)

Sep 7, 2025 at 8:11 pm
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Global Event: Total Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Total Lunar Eclipse in Geneva, Geneva
Began: Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 7:59 pm
Maximum: Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 8:11 pm 1.362 Magnitude
Ended: Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 10:55 pm
Duration: 2 hours, 55 minutes

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September 7, 2025 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Geneva

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The animation shows what the eclipse approximately looked like in Geneva. Stages and times of the eclipse are outlined below. All times were local time (CEST) for Geneva.

Time Phase Event Direction Altitude
5:28 pm Sun, Sep 7 Not directly visible Penumbral Eclipse begins Below horizon Map direction East-northeast 72°
-26.3°
6:27 pm Sun, Sep 7 Not directly visible Partial Eclipse begins Below horizon Map direction East 83°
-16.5°
7:30 pm Sun, Sep 7 Not directly visible Total Eclipse begins Below horizon Map direction East 93°
-5.7°
7:59 pm Sun, Sep 7 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. Map direction East 98°
-0.2°
8:11 pm Sun, Sep 7
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to East.
Additionally, the eclipsed moon combined with dimming near horizon might make the Moon very hard or impossible to see. 		Map direction East 101°
1.5°
8:52 pm Sun, Sep 7
Total Eclipse ends Total moon eclipse ends.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to East-southeast. 		Map direction East-southeast 108°
8.1°
9:56 pm Sun, Sep 7
Partial Eclipse ends Partial moon eclipse ends. Map direction East-southeast 120°
18.0°
10:55 pm Sun, Sep 7
Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends. Map direction Southeast 132°
26.2°

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

This total lunar eclipse was fully visible in Geneva. The total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a blood moon, as the Moon turns red.

Cloud Coverage (Sep 7)

In the past, this day was cloudy 52% of the time (since 2000).

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Eclipse Visibility From Geneva Visibility Worldwide
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Jan 12, 2028 Partial Lunar Eclipse Partial Lunar Eclipse

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