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Eclipses and countries › 23 September 2071

Total solar eclipse of 23 September 2071

Follow the shadow on the globe

4 countries have towns in the path: Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. The path also crosses Guyana, Suriname and France, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 3 min 11 s. The longest of these towns is Maicao in Colombia, with 3 min 7 s. There the path is about 117 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,140 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 15:36 to 19:01 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 14:36 to 20:01 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 77 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
Mexico3848 s to 2 min 56 s21% to 56%08:48 UTC-7Hermosillo 100
Colombia448 s to 3 min 7 s63% to 70%12:32 UTC-5Maicao 28
Venezuela3425 s to 3 min 5 s52% to 68%13:36 UTC-4Caicara del Orinoco 39
Brazil12 min 7 s32%15:34 UTC-3Tartarugalzinho 80

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. Hermosillo, Mexico 1001 min 39 s · 21% cloud · Sun 34°
  2. Tartarugalzinho, Brazil 802 min 7 s · 32% cloud · Sun 40°
  3. Cuauhtémoc, Mexico 752 min 1 s · 34% cloud · Sun 38°
  4. Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela 392 min 38 s · 53% cloud · Sun 64°
  5. Calabozo, Venezuela 392 min 21 s · 53% cloud · Sun 66°
  6. Maicao, Colombia 283 min 7 s · 63% cloud · Sun 72°
  7. Riohacha, Colombia 212 min 57 s · 68% cloud · Sun 73°

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
Mexico City79%10:18 UTC-6
New York City21%12:53 UTC-4
Bogotá76%12:42 UTC-5
Bamako28%18:27 UTC+0
Los Angeles90%08:48 UTC-7
Caracas95%13:50 UTC-4
Toronto20%12:41 UTC-4
Quito50%12:39 UTC-5

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

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