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Eclipses and countries › 2 June 2095

Total solar eclipse of 2 June 2095

Follow the shadow on the globe

5 countries have towns in the path: Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi and Madagascar. The path also crosses South Africa and Namibia, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 3 min 18 s. The longest of these towns is Nametil in Mozambique, with 3 min 17 s. There the path is about 147 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,030 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 08:43 to 11:28 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 07:35 to 12:36 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 32 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
Botswana51 min 24 s to 2 min 54 s17% to 21%11:31 UTC+2Serowe 100
Zimbabwe62 min 32 s to 2 min 59 s26% to 44%11:38 UTC+2Gwanda 87
Mozambique1446 s to 3 min 17 s45% to 61%11:50 UTC+2Machipanda 44
Malawi12 min 37 s56%11:59 UTC+2Nsanje 29
Madagascar61 min 21 s to 3 min 1 s42% to 62%13:39 UTC+3Maromandia 54

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. Serowe, Botswana 1002 min 53 s · 17% cloud · Sun 44°
  2. Tonota, Botswana 912 min 54 s · 19% cloud · Sun 46°
  3. Gwanda, Zimbabwe 872 min 59 s · 26% cloud · Sun 46°
  4. Zvishavane, Zimbabwe 742 min 58 s · 31% cloud · Sun 47°
  5. Maromandia, Madagascar 543 min 1 s · 42% cloud · Sun 44°
  6. Machipanda, Mozambique 442 min 43 s · 45% cloud · Sun 49°
  7. Manica, Mozambique 402 min 39 s · 46% cloud · Sun 49°
  8. Ambanja, Madagascar 371 min 26 s · 43% cloud · Sun 44°
  9. Nsanje, Malawi 292 min 37 s · 56% cloud · Sun 50°

Longest of all: Nametil, Mozambique, 3 min 17 s (score 39).

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
Kinshasa27%10:24 UTC+1
Johannesburg90%11:33 UTC+2
Dar es Salaam74%13:23 UTC+3
Cape Town87%11:10 UTC+2
Nairobi53%13:22 UTC+3
Addis Ababa21%13:36 UTC+3
Durban75%11:38 UTC+2
Luanda35%10:15 UTC+1

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

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