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Eclipses and countries › 30 March 2052

Total solar eclipse of 30 March 2052

Follow the shadow on the globe

2 countries have towns in the path: Mexico and United States. The path also crosses Kiribati, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 4 min 8 s. The longest of these towns is San Fernando in Mexico, with 4 min 6 s. There the path is about 162 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,300 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 16:51 to 20:09 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 15:52 to 21:08 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 70 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
Mexico311 min 41 s to 4 min 6 s27% to 52%12:19 UTC-6Ixtlán del Río 100
United States3910 s to 3 min 41 s50% to 54%13:46 UTC-5Santa Rosa Beach 46

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. Ixtlán del Río, Mexico 1003 min 50 s · 27% cloud · Sun 71°
  2. Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román, Mexico 934 min 2 s · 30% cloud · Sun 71°
  3. Santa Rosa Beach, United States 463 min 41 s · 50% cloud · Sun 57°
  4. Fort Walton Beach, United States 453 min 26 s · 50% cloud · Sun 57°

Longest of all: San Fernando, Mexico, 4 min 6 s (score 45).

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
Mexico City87%12:34 UTC-6
New York City78%15:38 UTC-4
Los Angeles42%11:15 UTC-7
Toronto62%15:30 UTC-4
Brooklyn78%15:38 UTC-4
Chicago61%14:18 UTC-5
Queens78%15:38 UTC-4
Houston92%13:56 UTC-5

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

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