When will the next total solar eclipse be visible in Maryland?

Question

When will the next total solar eclipse be visible in Maryland?

Answer 1

Sorry Kelly, but the 2013 eclipse is not total in Maryland.  You would have to be several 100 miles out at sea to get to the totality region.

Looking at the eclipse maps, the next total solar eclipse in Maryland is in 2099, Sept 14st.  The path of totality just touches the tip of western Maryland.

Answer 2

In 2017, we get a solar eclipse that travels across the US.  It won't be total in Maryland, but North Carolina isn't that far away.  You could get there by bicycle.  And you have plenty of time.  Check out the maps, below.

Answer 3

Looks like November 3rd, 2013. It just barely touches the east coast. Here's some information on that one: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEpl...

Edit: Ah shoot, thanks morningfoxnorth. I thought I'd looked at that map right - looks like I'm blind, haha.

Answer 4

Hi MD!

The next total solar eclipse passing over Maryland will not be until September 14, 2099, so you should plan to travel a little if you'd like to see one.  

Unless you're into overseas travel, there will be two total eclipses easily accessible for someone from Maryland:

- August 21, 2017

- April 8, 2024.

They're equally distant for you.  The August 21, 2017 eclipse passes over western North Carolina and exits the US along the South Carolina coast.  

The one on April 8, 2024 crosses northern Ohio and parts of far northen PA and NY.  

Don't miss them!

By the way, the November 3, 2013 eclipse will not be total anywhere near the United States.  In this eclipse, the moon happens to be just about exactly at the threshold between a total eclipse and an annular eclipse (where the moon moves completely across the sun, but it too small to quite block out the sun completely).  It begins as an annular eclipse about a hundred miles off the Georgia coast, but totality does not cut in until well southeast of Bermuda.  That morning in Maryland, you'd see only the end of a partial eclipse just as the sun is rising.