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Eclipses and countries › 20 April 2061

Total solar eclipse of 20 April 2061

Follow the shadow on the globe

4 countries have towns in the path: Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Svalbard & Jan Mayen. The path also crosses Norway, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 2 min 37 s. The longest of these towns is Severoural’sk in Russia, with 2 min 34 s. There the path is about 589 km wide and the shadow moves at about 3,650 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 02:26 to 03:24 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 00:50 to 05:00 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 308 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
Russia2418 s to 2 min 34 s50% to 80%05:22 UTC+3Sol’-Iletsk 97
Kazakhstan32 min 5 s to 2 min 22 s51% to 58%07:25 UTC+5Oral 100
Ukraine639 s to 1 min 39 s61% to 62%05:28 UTC+3Druzhkivka 0
Svalbard & Jan Mayen12 min 18 s69%05:20 UTC+2Longyearbyen 24

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. Oral, Kazakhstan 1002 min 22 s · 57% cloud · Sun 9°
  2. Aqsay, Kazakhstan 982 min 22 s · 58% cloud · Sun 10°
  3. Sol’-Iletsk, Russia 972 min 5 s · 58% cloud · Sun 11°
  4. Orenburg, Russia 952 min 14 s · 60% cloud · Sun 11°
  5. Longyearbyen, Svalbard & Jan Mayen 242 min 18 s · 69% cloud · Sun 7°
  6. Druzhkivka, Ukraine 023 s · 61% cloud · Sun -1°
  7. Zuhres, Ukraine 01 min 27 s · 61% cloud · Sun -1°

Longest of all: Severoural’sk, Russia, 2 min 34 s (score 52).

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
Moscow97%05:41 UTC+3
Seoul1%11:49 UTC+9
Beijing15%10:39 UTC+8
Lahore62%06:57 UTC+5
Mumbai37%07:08 UTC+5:30
Karachi55%06:47 UTC+5
Delhi53%07:23 UTC+5:30
Dhaka27%07:47 UTC+6

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

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