Eclipses and countries › 22 May 2077
Total solar eclipse of 22 May 2077
2 countries have towns in the path: Australia and Solomon Islands. The path also crosses Papua New Guinea, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 2 min 54 s. The longest of these towns is Alice Springs in Australia, with 2 min 6 s. There the path is about 102 km wide and the shadow moves at about 3,030 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 01:16 to 04:12 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 00:10 to 05:18 UTC.
Open on the mapAll 3 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.
| Country | Places | Totality | Cloud cover | Starts | Best place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 40 s to 2 min 6 s | 24% to 62% | 09:26 UTC+8 | Alice Springs 100 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 22 s | 73% | 14:23 UTC+11 | Nggosi 5 |
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.
- Alice Springs, Australia 1002 min 6 s · 24% cloud · Sun 43°
- Albany, Australia 1140 s · 62% cloud · Sun 23°
- Nggosi, Solomon Islands 522 s · 73% cloud · Sun 47°
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.
| City | Sun covered | Deepest |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney | 47% | 12:28 UTC+10 |
| Melbourne | 48% | 12:11 UTC+10 |
| Brisbane | 57% | 12:40 UTC+10 |
| Perth | 87% | 09:24 UTC+8 |
Not visible from Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Lisbon, Moscow, Cairo, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.