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Eclipses and countries › 20 April 2042

Total solar eclipse of 20 April 2042

Follow the shadow on the globe

4 countries have towns in the path: Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Philippines. On the central line totality lasts at most 4 min 51 s. The longest of these towns is Tabaco in Philippines, with 4 min 23 s. There the path is about 215 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,960 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 24:37 to 27:54 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 23:39 to 28:52 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 88 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
Indonesia111 min 20 s to 3 min 23 s77% to 84%24:44 UTCKota Sambas 14
Malaysia3420 s to 3 min 54 s63% to 79%24:53 UTCKudat 37
Brunei73 min 8 s to 3 min 30 s78% to 79%25:01 UTCTutong 13
Philippines3631 s to 4 min 23 s39% to 57%25:12 UTCTiwi 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. Tiwi, Philippines 1004 min 20 s · 42% cloud · Sun 56°
  2. Tabaco, Philippines 994 min 23 s · 43% cloud · Sun 56°
  3. Kudat, Malaysia 373 min 54 s · 63% cloud · Sun 44°
  4. Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 203 min 34 s · 73% cloud · Sun 43°
  5. Kota Sambas, Indonesia 143 min 23 s · 77% cloud · Sun 32°
  6. Pemangkat, Indonesia 133 min 22 s · 77% cloud · Sun 32°
  7. Tutong, Brunei 133 min 22 s · 78% cloud · Sun 41°
  8. Sengkurong, Brunei 133 min 17 s · 78% cloud · Sun 41°

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
Tokyo86%26:35 UTC
Seoul52%26:19 UTC
Beijing28%26:09 UTC
Shanghai55%26:00 UTC
Shenzhen57%25:34 UTC
Guangzhou54%25:34 UTC
Ho Chi Minh City71%25:06 UTC
Chengdu23%25:39 UTC

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

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