Eclipses and countries › 11 May 2059
Total solar eclipse of 11 May 2059
3 countries have towns in the path: Peru, Ecuador and Brazil. The path also crosses Colombia, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 2 min 23 s. The longest of these towns is Pasaje in Ecuador, with 1 min 43 s. There the path is about 79 km wide and the shadow moves at about 3,150 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 17:48 to 20:53 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 16:43 to 21:58 UTC.
Open on the mapAll 10 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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| São Paulo | 54% | 17:33 UTC-3 |
| Lima | 72% | 15:19 UTC-5 |
| Bogotá | 72% | 15:41 UTC-5 |
| Rio de Janeiro | 45% | 17:20 UTC-3 |
| Santiago | 22% | 15:58 UTC-4 |
| Caracas | 47% | 16:52 UTC-4 |
| Buenos Aires | 23% | 17:14 UTC-3 |
| Quito | 91% | 15:30 UTC-5 |
Not visible from Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Lisbon, Moscow, Cairo, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.