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Eclipses and countries › 11 May 2097

Total solar eclipse of 11 May 2097

Follow the shadow on the globe

2 countries have towns in the path: Svalbard & Jan Mayen and Russia. The path also crosses United States and Norway, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 3 min 10 s. The longest of these towns is Longyearbyen in Svalbard & Jan Mayen, with 2 min 20 s. There the path is about 325 km wide and the shadow moves at about 9,470 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 17:38 to 19:26 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 16:19 to 20:45 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 6 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
Svalbard & Jan Mayen12 min 20 s75%21:22 UTC+2Longyearbyen 100
Russia533 s to 1 min 54 s78% to 81%22:26 UTC+3Severomorsk 12

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. Longyearbyen, Svalbard & Jan Mayen 1002 min 20 s · 75% cloud · Sun 11°
  2. Severomorsk, Russia 121 min 49 s · 81% cloud · Sun 1°
  3. Murmansk, Russia 91 min 39 s · 80% 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, in local time.

CitySun coveredDeepest
Amsterdam15%21:23 UTC+2
London31%20:40 UTC+1
Paris3%21:21 UTC+2

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

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