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Eclipses and countries › 4 October 2089

Total solar eclipse of 4 October 2089

Follow the shadow on the globe

3 countries have towns in the path: China, Japan and Kiribati. On the central line totality lasts at most 3 min 14 s. The longest of these towns is Tarawa in Kiribati, with 2 min 15 s. There the path is about 113 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,280 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 23:30 to 26:57 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 22:31 to 27:56 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 108 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
China1057 s to 1 min 34 s58% to 92%07:30 UTC+8Jian’ou 59
Japan233 s to 41 s65%08:42 UTC+9Hirara 34
Kiribati12 min 15 s56%25:50 UTCTarawa 100

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. Tarawa, Kiribati 1002 min 15 s · 56% cloud · Sun 66°
  2. Jian’ou, China 591 min 24 s · 58% cloud · Sun 20°
  3. Qincheng, China 581 min 27 s · 58% cloud · Sun 18°
  4. Hirara, Japan 3441 s · 65% cloud · Sun 28°
  5. Miyakojima, Japan 3133 s · 65% cloud · Sun 28°

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
Tokyo47%08:59 UTC+9
Seoul54%08:46 UTC+9
Beijing54%07:40 UTC+8
Shanghai82%07:39 UTC+8
Shenzhen81%07:33 UTC+8
Guangzhou83%07:33 UTC+8
Ho Chi Minh City32%06:32 UTC+7
Chengdu96%07:31 UTC+8

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

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