Eclipses and countries › 5 December 2048
Total solar eclipse of 5 December 2048
One country has towns in the path: Argentina. The path also crosses Chile, Namibia and Botswana, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 3 min 28 s. The longest of these towns is Comodoro Rivadavia in Argentina, with 1 min 19 s. There the path is about 160 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,620 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 13:59 to 17:08 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 13:00 to 18:08 UTC.
Open on the mapAll 1 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 | Totality | Cloud cover | Starts | Best place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 1 | 1 min 19 s | 52% | 12:13 UTC-3 | Comodoro Rivadavia 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.
- Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina 1001 min 19 s · 52% cloud · Sun 63°
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 | 21% | 17:59 UTC+1 |
| Johannesburg | 63% | 18:49 UTC+2 |
| Santiago | 61% | 11:57 UTC-3 |
| Cape Town | 71% | 18:58 UTC+2 |
| Durban | 55% | 18:45 UTC+2 |
| Buenos Aires | 59% | 12:27 UTC-3 |
| Luanda | 46% | 18:15 UTC+1 |
| Pretoria | 60% | 18:48 UTC+2 |
Not visible from Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Lisbon, Moscow, Cairo, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.