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Eclipses and countries › 26 January 2028

Annular solar eclipse of 26 January 2028

Follow the shadow on the globe

8 countries have towns in the path: Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco. The path also crosses Suriname, France and Andorra, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line annularity lasts at most 10 min 30 s. The longest of these towns is Presidente Figueiredo in Brazil, with 10 min 20 s. There the path is about 339 km wide and the shadow moves at about 1,880 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 13:18 to 16:57 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 12:06 to 18:09 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 479 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.

CountryPlacesAnnularityCloud coverStartsBest place
Peru172 min 6 s to 8 min 42 s71% to 87%08:30 UTC-5Piura 37
Ecuador212 min 42 s to 8 min 39 s78% to 87%08:32 UTC-5Playas 20
Brazil263 min 7 s to 10 min 20 s79% to 86%08:52 UTC-5Presidente Figueiredo 32
Colombia19 min 31 s86%08:53 UTC-5Leticia 13
Portugal174 min 23 s to 7 min 5 s52% to 61%16:46 UTC+0Caniço 92
Spain39323 s to 7 min 15 s48% to 71%17:51 UTC+1La Rinconada 100
Gibraltar14 min 3 s54%17:54 UTC+1Gibraltar 58
Morocco355 s to 2 min 39 s53%16:55 UTC+0Tangier 48

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. La Rinconada, Spain 1007 min 14 s · 48% cloud · Sun 8°
  2. La Algaba, Spain 997 min 15 s · 48% cloud · Sun 8°
  3. Caniço, Portugal 927 min 5 s · 60% cloud · Sun 19°
  4. Albufeira, Portugal 916 min 44 s · 53% cloud · Sun 10°
  5. Gibraltar, Gibraltar 584 min 3 s · 54% cloud · Sun 8°
  6. Tangier, Morocco 482 min 39 s · 53% cloud · Sun 8°
  7. Gueznaia, Morocco 462 min 22 s · 53% cloud · Sun 8°
  8. Piura, Peru 373 min 28 s · 72% cloud · Sun 30°
  9. San Martin, Peru 363 min 24 s · 72% cloud · Sun 30°
  10. Presidente Figueiredo, Brazil 3210 min 20 s · 80% cloud · Sun 59°

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
Amsterdam31%17:14 UTC+1
London53%16:37 UTC+0
Berlin0%16:39 UTC+1
Paris58%17:36 UTC+1
Madrid82%17:55 UTC+1
Rome28%17:15 UTC+1
Lisbon81%16:54 UTC+0

Not visible from Moscow, Cairo, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.

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