Eclipses and countries › 12 July 2056
Annular solar eclipse of 12 July 2056
3 countries have towns in the path: Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil. The path also crosses Peru, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line annularity lasts at most 1 min 49 s. The longest of these towns is São Paulo de Olivença in Brazil, with 1 min 42 s. There the path is about 94 km wide and the shadow moves at about 20,760 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 18:27 to 22:13 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 17:24 to 23:17 UTC.
Open on the mapAll 8 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.
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.
- São Paulo de Olivença, Brazil 1001 min 42 s · 70% cloud · Sun 5°
- Tulcán, Ecuador 471 min 31 s · 85% cloud · Sun 16°
- Pupiales, Colombia 461 min 17 s · 85% cloud · Sun 16°
- Ipiales, Colombia 451 min 25 s · 85% cloud · Sun 16°
- Nueva Loja, Ecuador 401 min 31 s · 86% cloud · Sun 15°
- Tapauá, Brazil 016 s · 62% cloud · Sun -1°
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico City | 70% | 15:28 UTC-6 |
| Lima | 55% | 17:13 UTC-5 |
| Bogotá | 78% | 17:08 UTC-5 |
| Los Angeles | 41% | 13:29 UTC-7 |
| Caracas | 48% | 18:05 UTC-4 |
| Quito | 93% | 17:09 UTC-5 |
| Guayaquil | 84% | 17:10 UTC-5 |
| Cali | 86% | 17:08 UTC-5 |
Not visible from Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Lisbon, Moscow, Cairo, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.