Eclipses and countries › 24 October 2060
Annular solar eclipse of 24 October 2060
8 countries have towns in the path: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Angola, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. The path also crosses Ghana, Congo - Kinshasa, Eswatini and Lesotho, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line annularity lasts at most 8 min 8 s. The longest of these towns is Mandeni in South Africa, with 8 min 8 s. There the path is about 279 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,040 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 07:27 to 11:17 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 06:17 to 12:27 UTC.
Open on the mapAll 344 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | 12 | 2 min 14 s to 5 min 50 s | 71% to 78% | 07:26 UTC+0 | Goderich 10 |
| Guinea | 4 | 30 s to 1 min 6 s | 64% to 72% | 07:28 UTC+0 | Camayenne 7 |
| Liberia | 14 | 1 min 48 s to 6 min 18 s | 68% to 78% | 07:28 UTC+0 | Pleebo City 13 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 92 | 1 min 6 s to 6 min 28 s | 59% to 73% | 07:29 UTC+0 | San-Pédro 27 |
| Angola | 73 | 27 s to 7 min 32 s | 48% to 88% | 09:07 UTC+1 | Menongue 50 |
| Namibia | 2 | 5 min 4 s to 7 min 29 s | 34% to 35% | 10:45 UTC+2 | Ndiyona 80 |
| Botswana | 14 | 1 min 55 s to 7 min 39 s | 34% to 36% | 10:55 UTC+2 | Maun 100 |
| South Africa | 133 | 35 s to 8 min 8 s | 35% to 69% | 11:14 UTC+2 | Northam 91 |
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.
- Maun, Botswana 1007 min 32 s · 34% cloud · Sun 70°
- Mochudi, Botswana 987 min 39 s · 34% cloud · Sun 73°
- Northam, South Africa 918 min 4 s · 36% cloud · Sun 74°
- Amandelbult, South Africa 918 min 1 s · 36% cloud · Sun 74°
- Ndiyona, Namibia 807 min 29 s · 35% cloud · Sun 66°
- Rundu, Namibia 695 min 4 s · 34% cloud · Sun 65°
- Menongue, Angola 507 min 5 s · 48% cloud · Sun 61°
- Chitembo, Angola 376 min 51 s · 55% cloud · Sun 58°
- San-Pédro, Côte d’Ivoire 276 min 17 s · 59% cloud · Sun 19°
- Sassandra, Côte d’Ivoire 236 min 28 s · 63% cloud · Sun 19°
Longest of all: Mandeni, South Africa, 8 min 8 s (score 32).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lisbon | 3% | 08:20 UTC+1 |
| Kinshasa | 77% | 09:08 UTC+1 |
| Lagos | 73% | 08:38 UTC+1 |
| Johannesburg | 86% | 11:23 UTC+2 |
| Abidjan | 85% | 07:35 UTC+0 |
| Dar es Salaam | 24% | 11:56 UTC+3 |
| Kano | 49% | 08:34 UTC+1 |
| Cape Town | 54% | 11:23 UTC+2 |
Not visible from Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Moscow, Cairo, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.