On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun. The sky will darken as if it were dawn or dusk.
Starting in Texas during the noon hour, the eclipse will occur and as a result oversize travel restrictions with more coming as the solar eclipse approaches.
The Solar Eclipse is expected to cause severe traffic delays, so no size/weight permitted travel will be allowed on that day from midnight to midnight in the following counties:
Anderson, Atascosa, Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Bowie, Brown, Burnet, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Coleman, Collin, Comal, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Dimmit, Edwards, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Franklin, Freestone, Frio, Gillespie, Grayson, Gregg, Hamilton, Harrison, Hays, Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Lamar, Lampasas, Leon, Limestone, Llano, Marion, Mason, Maverick, McLennan, McCulloch, Medina, Menard, Milam, Mills, Morris, Navarro, Parker, Rains, Real, Red River, Robertson, Rockwall, San Saba, Smith, Somervell, Sutton, Tarrant, Titus, Travis, Upshur, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Williamson, Wood, and Zavala.
The eclipse centerline will enter Texas at the Mexico-U.S. border near Eagle Pass at 12:10 p.m. CDT and will leave the state near Texarkana at 3:06 p.m. Totality will last between 1-5 minutes, depending on location. Totality will be visible in the following cities beginning at these times:
- Eagle Pass: 1:27 p.m.
- Uvalde: 1:29 p.m.
- San Antonio: 1:33 p.m.
- Austin: 1:36 p.m.
- Waco: 1:38 p.m.
- Dallas and Fort Worth: 1:40 p.m.
- Tyler: 1:43 p.m.
- Texarkana: 1:46 p.m.
Texas will have the longest durations of totality in the country is home to all four of the largest cities in the eclipse’s path – Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and Fort Worth.