On September 7, the moon will step into Earth’s shadow and emerge stained in deep red. The “blood moon.” It’s the second total lunar eclipse of 2025, and if the weather plays along, roughly 77 percent of the planet’s population will see the show.

The best seats are in Asia and Western Australia, where the entire eclipse will be visible from start to finish. Viewers in Europe, Africa, eastern Australia, and New Zealand may still catch totality—the 82 minutes when the moon sits fully in Earth’s umbra, the shadow’s dark inner core—but it depends on when the moon rises in your sky.

In some European cities, it will climb over the horizon already glowing deep red, an entrance more dramatic than most sunrises.

A Total Lunar Eclipse Will Create A Blood Moon On September 7, 2025

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