Eclipses and countries › 31 March 2071
Annular solar eclipse of 31 March 2071
6 countries have towns in the path: Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Congo - Brazzaville and Congo - Kinshasa. The path also crosses Gabon and Angola, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line annularity lasts at most 1 min 30 s. The longest of these towns is Bulungu in Congo - Kinshasa, with 1 min 24 s. There the path is about 85 km wide and the shadow moves at about 26,600 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 13:17 to 16:42 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 12:12 to 17:46 UTC.
Open on the mapAll 113 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 | Annularity | Cloud cover | Starts | Best place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chile | 19 | 36 s to 1 min 16 s | 47% to 52% | 10:32 UTC-3 | Chicureo 85 |
| Argentina | 21 | 16 s to 1 min 11 s | 40% to 52% | 10:36 UTC-3 | Ciudad de Las Heras 100 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 47 s | 51% | 10:59 UTC-3 | Encarnación 51 |
| Brazil | 58 | 7 s to 1 min 2 s | 49% to 65% | 11:05 UTC-3 | Capivari 69 |
| Congo - Brazzaville | 8 | 1 min 1 s to 1 min 23 s | 72% to 73% | 17:40 UTC+1 | Dolisie 14 |
| Congo - Kinshasa | 6 | 43 s to 1 min 24 s | 73% to 77% | 17:41 UTC+1 | Kinshasa 10 |
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.
- Ciudad de Las Heras, Argentina 1001 min 3 s · 40% cloud · Sun 33°
- Mendoza, Argentina 9356 s · 41% cloud · Sun 33°
- Chicureo, Chile 851 min 16 s · 47% cloud · Sun 31°
- Quilicura, Chile 831 min 14 s · 48% cloud · Sun 31°
- Capivari, Brazil 6957 s · 49% cloud · Sun 60°
- Tietê, Brazil 6757 s · 49% cloud · Sun 60°
- Encarnación, Paraguay 5147 s · 51% cloud · Sun 49°
- Dolisie, Congo - Brazzaville 141 min 22 s · 72% cloud · Sun 8°
- Kayes, Congo - Brazzaville 121 min 22 s · 72% cloud · Sun 7°
- Kinshasa, Congo - Kinshasa 101 min 23 s · 73% cloud · Sun 5°
Longest of all: Bulungu, Congo - Kinshasa, 1 min 24 s (score 3).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kinshasa | 96% | 17:41 UTC+1 |
| Lagos | 59% | 17:43 UTC+1 |
| São Paulo | 96% | 11:24 UTC-3 |
| Johannesburg | 27% | 18:06 UTC+2 |
| Rio de Janeiro | 91% | 11:34 UTC-3 |
| Abidjan | 62% | 16:37 UTC+0 |
| Kano | 39% | 17:47 UTC+1 |
| Santiago | 97% | 10:34 UTC-3 |
Not visible from Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Lisbon, Moscow, Cairo, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.