Countdown Begins: Rare Total Solar Eclipse to Occur in 2024.

A total solar eclipse will cross North America on April 8, 2024, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. It will be the nation's biggest eclipse event since the Great American Eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017. The last total solar eclipse that will be visible in the U.S. until 2044. Some of the big cities in the path include Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Indianapolis, where preparations already have begun. Folks in the Southwest will get their own peek at a solar eclipse later this year, though it won't be a total one.