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Eclipses and countries › 2 September 2035

Total solar eclipse of 2 September 2035

Follow the shadow on the globe

3 countries have towns in the path: China, North Korea and Japan. The path also crosses South Korea, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 2 min 54 s. The longest of these towns is Okunoya in Japan, with 2 min 36 s. There the path is about 109 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,760 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 24:16 to 27:34 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 23:14 to 28:36 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 238 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
China3124 s to 2 min 0 s44% to 61%24:19 UTCBeichengqu 100
North Korea2232 s to 2 min 12 s61% to 70%24:43 UTCCh’ŏsal-li 62
Japan18512 s to 2 min 36 s68% to 74%25:01 UTCUshitsu 44

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. Beichengqu, China 1001 min 34 s · 46% cloud · Sun 28°
  2. Salaqi, China 1001 min 22 s · 45% cloud · Sun 26°
  3. Ch’ŏsal-li, North Korea 622 min 5 s · 61% cloud · Sun 40°
  4. Sil-li, North Korea 611 min 57 s · 61% cloud · Sun 40°
  5. Ushitsu, Japan 442 min 21 s · 68% cloud · Sun 52°
  6. Wajima, Japan 432 min 17 s · 68% cloud · Sun 51°

Longest of all: Okunoya, Japan, 2 min 36 s (score 38).

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
Tokyo100%25:08 UTC
Seoul97%24:46 UTC
Beijing100%24:33 UTC
Shanghai69%24:36 UTC
Shenzhen34%24:24 UTC
Guangzhou36%24:23 UTC
Chengdu65%24:17 UTC
Lahore41%24:39 UTC

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

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