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Eclipses and countries › 24 August 2063

Total solar eclipse of 24 August 2063

Follow the shadow on the globe

5 countries have towns in the path: China, Mongolia, North Korea, Russia and Japan. The path also crosses Kiribati and French Polynesia, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 5 min 49 s. The longest of these towns is Mutsu in Japan, with 4 min 59 s. There the path is about 235 km wide and the shadow moves at about 3,850 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 23:42 to 26:59 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 22:45 to 27:55 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 84 places in the city seeker

Countries along the path

In the order the shadow crosses them. Cloud cover is the average at the hour of the eclipse; the start is the local time in the first town the shadow reaches.

CountryPlacesTotalityCloud coverStartsBest place
China4256 s to 4 min 19 s41% to 69%05:40 UTC+6Xilin Hot 99
Mongolia31 min 39 s to 3 min 41 s40% to 48%07:43 UTC+8Saynshand 100
North Korea33 min 6 s to 3 min 13 s69%24:01 UTCOnsŏng 33
Russia101 min 27 s to 4 min 38 s67% to 69%24:02 UTCTrudovoye 43
Japan2653 s to 4 min 59 s72% to 75%24:13 UTCAomori 30

Best places by score

The score of the city seeker with its default setting: cloud cover counts heavily; duration, height of the Sun, airport, travel risk and terrain count less. At most two places per country. Your own setting in the city seeker can change the order.

  1. Saynshand, Mongolia 1003 min 41 s · 40% cloud · Sun 19°
  2. Xilin Hot, China 992 min 13 s · 41% cloud · Sun 24°
  3. Xilinhot, China 952 min 3 s · 41% cloud · Sun 24°
  4. Bogd, Mongolia 633 min 5 s · 45% cloud · Sun 13°
  5. Trudovoye, Russia 434 min 35 s · 68% cloud · Sun 38°
  6. Vladivostok, Russia 434 min 25 s · 68% cloud · Sun 38°
  7. Onsŏng, North Korea 333 min 13 s · 69% cloud · Sun 36°
  8. Namyang-nodongjagu, North Korea 333 min 7 s · 69% cloud · Sun 36°
  9. Aomori, Japan 304 min 17 s · 73% cloud · Sun 46°
  10. Goshogawara, Japan 293 min 59 s · 72% cloud · Sun 46°

Longest of all: Mutsu, Japan, 4 min 59 s (score 26).

Moments

  • Partial eclipse begins on Earth
  • Central shadow touches the Earth
  • Central shadow leaves the Earth
  • Partial eclipse ends on Earth

Seen from elsewhere

The deepest moment of the partial eclipse in the largest city of each language of this site, and in the largest cities that see at least a fifth of the Sun covered, in local time.

CitySun coveredDeepest
Tokyo82%24:17 UTC
Seoul79%08:59 UTC+9
Beijing85%07:49 UTC+8
Shanghai50%07:53 UTC+8
Chengdu49%07:39 UTC+8
Tianjin82%07:50 UTC+8
Wuhan46%07:46 UTC+8
Dhaka31%05:37 UTC+6

Not visible from Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Lisbon, Moscow and Cairo.

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