To provide a shading fabric which solves fiber breakage in a spinning process, the hand of the fabric, and the deterioration of a draping property, and is excellent in a shading property.

This shading fabric uses multifilaments which comprise a filament-forming thermoplastic polymer having a carbon black content of 0.5 to 5 wt.% and whose each filament cross section is a flat cross section having two or more constricted portions and having a cross section flatness degree of 2 to 6.