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The Moon occults Mars — 11 October 2029

Lunar occultation of the planet Mars · Thursday 11 October 2029 · World

Watch from (UTC)
14:03 – 18:26
40 of 102 listed cities see it
Mars hidden for
up to 76 min
Belo Horizonte, BR, 76 min

The Moon hides Mars for up to 76 minutes, in daylight for some, after sunset for others. 40 of the world's big cities see it; Kinshasa, CD misses by 0.8′.

Closest approach 16:14 UTC (geocentric, 0.06° centre to centre) · Moon 3.9 days old, 21% lit, 54° from the Sun

Where it can be seen

Kinshasa, CD: misses — Mars passes 0.8′ from the limb Istanbul, TR: misses — Mars passes 33.7′ from the limb Lagos, NG: misses — Mars passes 15.4′ from the limb São Paulo, BR: hidden 69 min, daylight, Sun +73° Cairo, EG: misses — Mars passes 24.9′ from the limb Johannesburg, ZA: hidden 60 min, dark sky London, GB: misses — Mars passes 44.8′ from the limb Lima, PE: hidden 46 min, daylight, Sun +50° Bogotá, CO: reappearance only — the Moon rises during it Rio de Janeiro, BR: hidden 75 min, daylight, Sun +74° Abidjan, CI: misses — Mars passes 16.1′ from the limb Dar es Salaam, TZ: hidden 60 min, dark sky Alexandria, EG: misses — Mars passes 26.3′ from the limb Kano, NG: misses — Mars passes 18.7′ from the limb Santiago, CL: misses — Mars passes 7.8′ from the limb Cape Town, ZA: hidden 52 min, daylight, Sun +1° Jeddah, SA: misses — Mars passes 14.5′ from the limb Nairobi, KE: hidden 48 min, dark sky Giza, EG: misses — Mars passes 24.9′ from the limb Bamako, ML: misses — Mars passes 22.9′ from the limb Addis Ababa, ET: misses — Mars passes 3.2′ from the limb Casablanca, MA: misses — Mars passes 37.8′ from the limb Ibadan, NG: misses — Mars passes 16.1′ from the limb Ankara, TR: misses — Mars passes 31.7′ from the limb Berlin, DE: misses — Mars passes 43.3′ from the limb Durban, ZA: hidden 43 min, dark sky Madrid, ES: misses — Mars passes 41.0′ from the limb Bursa, TR: misses — Mars passes 33.1′ from the limb Caracas, VE: hidden 20 min, daylight, Sun +56° İzmir, TR: misses — Mars passes 32.5′ from the limb Buenos Aires, AR: misses — Mars passes 4.0′ from the limb Quito, EC: reappearance only — the Moon rises during it Luanda, AO: hidden 45 min, sunset twilight Guayaquil, EC: reappearance only — the Moon rises during it Belo Horizonte, BR: hidden 76 min, daylight, Sun +77° Salvador, BR: hidden 74 min, daylight, Sun +84° Abuja, NG: misses — Mars passes 16.4′ from the limb Dakar, SN: misses — Mars passes 23.8′ from the limb Mogadishu, SO: disappearance only — the Moon sets first Kumasi, GH: misses — Mars passes 16.9′ from the limb Ouagadougou, BF: misses — Mars passes 21.9′ from the limb Fortaleza, BR: hidden 27 min, daylight, Sun +84° Cali, CO: reappearance only — the Moon rises during it Algiers, DZ: misses — Mars passes 38.3′ from the limb Rome, IT: misses — Mars passes 39.0′ from the limb Lubumbashi, CD: hidden 67 min, dark sky Manaus, BR: hidden 60 min, daylight, Sun +64° Lusaka, ZM: hidden 70 min, dark sky Brasília, BR: hidden 74 min, daylight, Sun +77° Lomé, TG: misses — Mars passes 15.7′ from the limb Paris, FR: misses — Mars passes 43.7′ from the limb Port Harcourt, NG: misses — Mars passes 12.7′ from the limb Pretoria, ZA: hidden 61 min, dark sky Córdoba, AR: misses — Mars passes 3.8′ from the limb Mbuji-Mayi, CD: hidden 50 min, dark sky La Paz, BO: hidden 49 min, daylight, Sun +59° Medellín, CO: reappearance only — the Moon rises during it Brazzaville, CG: misses — Mars passes 0.9′ from the limb Khartoum, SD: misses — Mars passes 11.9′ from the limb Hamburg, DE: misses — Mars passes 44.1′ from the limb Accra, GH: misses — Mars passes 15.6′ from the limb Curitiba, BR: hidden 60 min, daylight, Sun +70° Conakry, GN: misses — Mars passes 20.0′ from the limb Beirut, LB: misses — Mars passes 26.3′ from the limb Bucharest, RO: misses — Mars passes 36.6′ from the limb Camayenne, GN: misses — Mars passes 20.0′ from the limb Kakamega, KE: hidden 39 min, dark sky Kaduna, NG: misses — Mars passes 17.8′ from the limb Omdurman, SD: misses — Mars passes 12.0′ from the limb Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO: hidden 54 min, daylight, Sun +63° Benin City, NG: misses — Mars passes 14.6′ from the limb Maracaibo, VE: reappearance only — the Moon rises during it Budapest, HU: misses — Mars passes 40.1′ from the limb Warsaw, PL: misses — Mars passes 41.6′ from the limb Soweto, ZA: hidden 60 min, dusk Vienna, AT: misses — Mars passes 41.0′ from the limb Barcelona, ES: misses — Mars passes 40.8′ from the limb Kampala, UG: hidden 34 min, dark sky Rabat, MA: misses — Mars passes 38.0′ from the limb Recife, BR: hidden 51 min, daylight, Sun +82° Valencia, VE: hidden 26 min, daylight, Sun +54° Makkah, SA: misses — Mars passes 14.1′ from the limb Damascus, SY: misses — Mars passes 25.7′ from the limb Onitsha, NG: misses — Mars passes 14.0′ from the limb Harare, ZW: hidden 68 min, dark sky Monrovia, LR: misses — Mars passes 17.4′ from the limb Goiânia, BR: hidden 72 min, daylight, Sun +75° Munich, DE: misses — Mars passes 42.0′ from the limb Belém, BR: hidden 45 min, daylight, Sun +78° Porto Alegre, BR: hidden 38 min, daylight, Sun +66° Asunción, PY: hidden 43 min, daylight, Sun +66° Konya, TR: misses — Mars passes 30.3′ from the limb Milan, IT: misses — Mars passes 41.4′ from the limb N'Djamena, TD: misses — Mars passes 16.2′ from the limb Antananarivo, MG: hidden 47 min, dark sky Abobo, CI: misses — Mars passes 16.2′ from the limb Douala, CM: misses — Mars passes 11.0′ from the limb Antalya, TR: misses — Mars passes 30.3′ from the limb Niamey, NE: misses — Mars passes 22.0′ from the limb Tripoli, LY: misses — Mars passes 33.4′ from the limb Madinah, SA: misses — Mars passes 16.9′ from the limb Yaoundé, CM: misses — Mars passes 10.1′ from the limb Kinshasa, CD Istanbul, TR Lagos, NG São Paulo, BR Cairo, EG Johannesburg, ZA Lima, PE Bogotá, CO Rio de Janeiro, BR Dar es Salaam, TZ Cape Town, ZA Nairobi, KE Durban, ZA Caracas, VE Quito, EC Luanda, AO Guayaquil, EC Belo Horizonte, BR
sees the occultation after sunset graze limit city sees it near miss

The gold line is the north limit: along it Mars grazes the Moon's northern edge. North of the line it is a near miss — from Kinshasa, CD Mars passes just 0.8′ outside the limb — and a graze seen from right on the line, Mars blinking in and out behind lunar mountains, is the finest view of all. The solid line is traced against the real lunar limb — LRO LOLA terrain, the mountains and valleys that are on the edge for this libration — and sits -5.9 to +1.7 km from the mean-sphere line (dotted).

The violet shading is where the Sun has set by the time of the event, so the reappearance happens in a darkening sky.

Tap the map to set your location; pinch it to zoom in. Take the graze line with you: KML for Google Earth / Maps · GPX for a phone GPS app.

At the Moon's edge

Mars's path across the Moon from your location — north up, east to the left as in binoculars. Times here are computed in your browser from the same ephemeris as the table, to the same ±2 s. Drag the slider to move it along its track.

Advanced · graze profile against the real lunar limb

For graze chasers. The lunar limb as it really is for your libration — LRO LOLA terrain, in km above and below the mean sphere — with Mars's track drawn across it six minutes either side of each contact. Where the track dips below the terrain, Mars is hidden; near a graze it blinks behind peaks.

City by city

Times are against the real lunar limb (LRO LOLA terrain at each city's own libration). Disappears is the moment Mars is fully hidden (its disc takes from the earlier time to slide in); reappears is when the first sliver returns. Where to look is the Moon's height above the horizon (0° is the horizon, 90° straight up) and compass direction at that moment, and whether the Sun is still up.

CityMars disappears (UTC)reappears (UTC)hiddenWhere to look
Bogotá, CO14:03:10Moon not yet up14:54:33to 14:54:4351 min6° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +60° · at reappearance
Quito, EC14:03:32Moon not yet up14:58:24to 14:58:3355 min5° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +59° · at reappearance
Guayaquil, EC14:04:55Moon not yet up14:59:01to 14:59:1154 min4° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +58° · at reappearance
Lima, PE14:13:58from 14:13:4714:59:28to 14:59:4046 min1° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +50°
Caracas, VE14:17:28from 14:17:0114:37:24to 14:37:5320 min2° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +56°
Belo Horizonte, BR14:24:16from 14:24:0515:40:36to 15:40:4976 min36° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +77°
São Paulo, BR14:28:38from 14:28:2615:37:27to 15:37:4169 min35° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +73°
Rio de Janeiro, BR14:29:28from 14:29:1515:44:08to 15:44:2275 min39° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +74°
Cape Town, ZA16:49:23from 16:49:0417:41:27to 17:41:4452 min53° up in the W · daylight, Sun +1°
Johannesburg, ZA17:03:59from 17:03:4518:04:20to 18:04:3360 min42° up in the W · dark sky
Luanda, AO17:08:18from 17:07:5217:53:35to 17:53:5745 min49° up in the WSW · sunset twilight
Durban, ZA17:11:23from 17:11:0417:54:22to 17:54:3843 min38° up in the W · dark sky
Dar es Salaam, TZ17:26:38from 17:26:2718:26:30to 18:26:3960 min21° up in the WSW · dark sky
Nairobi, KE17:34:30from 17:34:1518:22:23to 18:22:3648 min19° up in the WSW · dark sky
Cairo, EGmisses — Mars passes 24.9′ from the limb at 17:486° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Istanbul, TRmisses — Mars passes 33.7′ from the limb at 17:333° up (low) in the SW · dark sky
Kinshasa, CDmisses — Mars passes 0.8′ from the limb at 17:3739° up in the WSW · dark sky
Lagos, NGmisses — Mars passes 15.4′ from the limb at 17:1347° up in the SW · daylight, Sun +4°
All 84 other cities
CityMars disappears (UTC)reappears (UTC)hiddenWhere to look
Abidjan, CImisses — Mars passes 16.1′ from the limb at 16:4656° up in the SSW · daylight, Sun +18°
Abobo, CImisses — Mars passes 16.2′ from the limb at 16:4656° up in the SSW · daylight, Sun +18°
Abuja, NGmisses — Mars passes 16.4′ from the limb at 17:2540° up in the SW · sunset twilight
Accra, GHmisses — Mars passes 15.6′ from the limb at 17:0152° up in the SW · daylight, Sun +10°
Addis Ababa, ETmisses — Mars passes 3.2′ from the limb at 18:017° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Alexandria, EGmisses — Mars passes 26.3′ from the limb at 17:466° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Algiers, DZmisses — Mars passes 38.3′ from the limb at 16:5624° up in the SSW · daylight, Sun +3°
Ankara, TRmisses — Mars passes 31.7′ from the limb at 17:371° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Antalya, TRmisses — Mars passes 30.3′ from the limb at 17:404° up (low) in the SW · dark sky
Antananarivo, MG17:26:57from 17:26:4518:13:46to 18:13:5847 min17° up in the WSW · dark sky
Asunción, PY14:33:05from 14:32:4815:16:02to 15:16:2043 min27° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +66°
Bamako, MLmisses — Mars passes 22.9′ from the limb at 16:2852° up in the SSW · daylight, Sun +25°
Barcelona, ESmisses — Mars passes 40.8′ from the limb at 16:4920° up in the SSW · daylight, Sun +4°
Beirut, LBmisses — Mars passes 26.3′ from the limb at 17:461° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Belém, BR14:17:41from 14:17:2315:02:22to 15:02:4245 min24° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +78°
Benin City, NGmisses — Mars passes 14.6′ from the limb at 17:2044° up in the SW · daylight, Sun +0°
Berlin, DEmisses — Mars passes 43.3′ from the limb at 16:576° up (low) in the SSW · dusk
Brasília, BR14:16:24from 14:16:1315:29:55to 15:30:0874 min29° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +77°
Brazzaville, CGmisses — Mars passes 0.9′ from the limb at 17:3739° up in the WSW · dark sky
Bucharest, ROmisses — Mars passes 36.6′ from the limb at 17:264° up (low) in the SW · dark sky
Budapest, HUmisses — Mars passes 40.1′ from the limb at 17:137° up (low) in the SW · dark sky
Buenos Aires, ARmisses — Mars passes 4.0′ from the limb at 15:0535° up in the E · daylight, Sun +62°
Bursa, TRmisses — Mars passes 33.1′ from the limb at 17:344° up (low) in the SW · dark sky
Cali, CO14:02:54Moon not yet up14:56:04to 14:56:1453 min5° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +59° · at reappearance
Camayenne, GNmisses — Mars passes 20.0′ from the limb at 16:0256° up in the S · daylight, Sun +37°
Casablanca, MAmisses — Mars passes 37.8′ from the limb at 16:2431° up in the S · daylight, Sun +19°
Conakry, GNmisses — Mars passes 20.0′ from the limb at 16:0256° up in the S · daylight, Sun +37°
Curitiba, BR14:31:57from 14:31:4515:32:21to 15:32:3660 min34° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +70°
Córdoba, ARmisses — Mars passes 3.8′ from the limb at 14:5828° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +62°
Dakar, SNmisses — Mars passes 23.8′ from the limb at 15:4449° up in the SSE · daylight, Sun +43°
Damascus, SYmisses — Mars passes 25.7′ from the limb at 17:470° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Douala, CMmisses — Mars passes 11.0′ from the limb at 17:3041° up in the SW · dusk
Fortaleza, BR14:40:21from 14:39:4415:06:56to 15:07:3827 min39° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +84°
Giza, EGmisses — Mars passes 24.9′ from the limb at 17:486° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Goiânia, BR14:16:33from 14:16:2215:28:49to 15:29:0272 min28° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +75°
Hamburg, DEmisses — Mars passes 44.1′ from the limb at 16:507° up (low) in the SSW · sunset twilight
Harare, ZW17:10:52from 17:10:4018:18:19to 18:18:3068 min36° up in the WSW · dark sky
Ibadan, NGmisses — Mars passes 16.1′ from the limb at 17:1546° up in the SW · daylight, Sun +3°
Jeddah, SAmisses — Mars passes 14.5′ from the limb at 17:572° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Kaduna, NGmisses — Mars passes 17.8′ from the limb at 17:2439° up in the SW · sunset twilight
Kakamega, KE17:38:58from 17:38:4018:17:40to 18:17:5739 min19° up in the WSW · dark sky
Kampala, UG17:40:35from 17:40:1318:14:06to 18:14:2634 min21° up in the WSW · dark sky
Kano, NGmisses — Mars passes 18.7′ from the limb at 17:2737° up in the SW · sunset twilight
Khartoum, SDmisses — Mars passes 11.9′ from the limb at 17:5710° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Konya, TRmisses — Mars passes 30.3′ from the limb at 17:402° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Kumasi, GHmisses — Mars passes 16.9′ from the limb at 16:5653° up in the SW · daylight, Sun +13°
La Paz, BO14:16:29from 14:16:1715:05:16to 15:05:3049 min11° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +59°
Lomé, TGmisses — Mars passes 15.7′ from the limb at 17:0650° up in the SW · daylight, Sun +8°
London, GBmisses — Mars passes 44.8′ from the limb at 16:3412° up (low) in the SSW · daylight, Sun +5°
Lubumbashi, CD17:13:25from 17:13:1218:20:09to 18:20:2067 min36° up in the WSW · dark sky
Lusaka, ZM17:09:38from 17:09:2618:19:18to 18:19:2970 min38° up in the WSW · dark sky
Madinah, SAmisses — Mars passes 16.9′ from the limb at 17:560° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Madrid, ESmisses — Mars passes 41.0′ from the limb at 16:3324° up in the SSW · daylight, Sun +12°
Makkah, SAmisses — Mars passes 14.1′ from the limb at 17:571° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Manaus, BR14:03:57from 14:03:4715:03:48to 15:03:5960 min11° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +64°
Maracaibo, VE14:11:27Moon not yet up14:43:33to 14:43:5132 min3° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +57° · at reappearance
Mbuji-Mayi, CD17:22:19from 17:22:0018:12:04to 18:12:2150 min36° up in the WSW · dark sky
Medellín, CO14:04:07Moon not yet up14:53:17to 14:53:2849 min4° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +58° · at reappearance
Milan, ITmisses — Mars passes 41.4′ from the limb at 17:0014° up (low) in the SSW · sunset twilight
Mogadishu, SO17:37:59from 17:37:4718:23:58Moon has set46 min9° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Monrovia, LRmisses — Mars passes 17.4′ from the limb at 16:1659° up in the S · daylight, Sun +32°
Munich, DEmisses — Mars passes 42.0′ from the limb at 17:0110° up (low) in the SSW · sunset twilight
N'Djamena, TDmisses — Mars passes 16.2′ from the limb at 17:4030° up in the SW · dark sky
Niamey, NEmisses — Mars passes 22.0′ from the limb at 17:0843° up in the SW · daylight, Sun +5°
Omdurman, SDmisses — Mars passes 12.0′ from the limb at 17:5710° up (low) in the WSW · dark sky
Onitsha, NGmisses — Mars passes 14.0′ from the limb at 17:2343° up in the SW · sunset twilight
Ouagadougou, BFmisses — Mars passes 21.9′ from the limb at 16:5648° up in the SSW · daylight, Sun +12°
Paris, FRmisses — Mars passes 43.7′ from the limb at 16:4214° up (low) in the SSW · daylight, Sun +3°
Port Harcourt, NGmisses — Mars passes 12.7′ from the limb at 17:2344° up in the SW · sunset twilight
Porto Alegre, BR14:46:28from 14:46:0915:24:29to 15:24:5038 min36° up in the E · daylight, Sun +66°
Pretoria, ZA17:04:14from 17:04:0018:05:18to 18:05:3061 min41° up in the W · dark sky
Rabat, MAmisses — Mars passes 38.0′ from the limb at 16:2631° up in the S · daylight, Sun +17°
Recife, BR14:38:26from 14:38:0615:29:48to 15:30:1251 min44° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +82°
Rome, ITmisses — Mars passes 39.0′ from the limb at 17:1114° up (low) in the SW · dusk
Salvador, BR14:25:50from 14:25:3715:40:08to 15:40:2574 min39° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +84°
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO14:16:51from 14:16:4015:10:40to 15:10:5354 min16° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +63°
Santiago, CLmisses — Mars passes 7.8′ from the limb at 14:5823° up in the ESE · daylight, Sun +56°
Soweto, ZA17:03:40from 17:03:2718:04:10to 18:04:2360 min42° up in the W · dusk
Tripoli, LYmisses — Mars passes 33.4′ from the limb at 17:2319° up in the SW · dusk
Valencia, VE14:14:14from 14:13:5514:40:41to 14:41:0026 min0° up (low) in the ESE · daylight, Sun +54°
Vienna, ATmisses — Mars passes 41.0′ from the limb at 17:088° up (low) in the SW · dusk
Warsaw, PLmisses — Mars passes 41.6′ from the limb at 17:083° up (low) in the SW · dark sky
Yaoundé, CMmisses — Mars passes 10.1′ from the limb at 17:3339° up in the SW · dusk
İzmir, TRmisses — Mars passes 32.5′ from the limb at 17:356° up (low) in the SW · dark sky

How to watch

Method & accuracy

Positions from the JPL DE431 ephemeris (Skyfield), ΔT = 69.1 s. The city table's contact times and the solid limit line use the real lunar limb — the silhouette of LRO LOLA terrain (LDEM_64, ~0.5 km) at each observer's own libration — so they carry the mountains and valleys that a mean sphere misses (up to a few seconds at ordinary contacts, tens of seconds near a graze). The any-location solver in your browser and the shaded region still use the mean sphere of 1737.4 km (±2 s). Mars's own disc (5″ across) is included: partial contacts are the from/to times. The numbers behind this page: mars-2029-10-11.json. Generated 2026-09-14.