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Eclipses and countries › 16 January 2075

Total solar eclipse of 16 January 2075

Follow the shadow on the globe

3 countries have towns in the path: Chile, Argentina and Brazil. The path also crosses Paraguay, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 2 min 42 s. The longest of these towns is Ovalle in Chile, with 2 min 6 s. There the path is about 103 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,940 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 16:54 to 20:14 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 15:55 to 21:13 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 42 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
Chile22 min 2 s to 2 min 6 s29% to 37%16:26 UTC-3Vicuña 100
Argentina721 s to 2 min 1 s53% to 74%16:34 UTC-3Aimogasta 38
Brazil3336 s to 1 min 33 s60% to 78%15:56 UTC-4Caarapó 19

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. Vicuña, Chile 1002 min 2 s · 29% cloud · Sun 54°
  2. Ovalle, Chile 792 min 6 s · 37% cloud · Sun 55°
  3. Aimogasta, Argentina 382 min 1 s · 53% cloud · Sun 49°
  4. Chilecito, Argentina 281 min 27 s · 56% cloud · Sun 50°
  5. Caarapó, Brazil 191 min 33 s · 65% cloud · Sun 33°
  6. Fátima do Sul, Brazil 181 min 30 s · 66% cloud · Sun 32°

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
São Paulo86%17:01 UTC-3
Lima30%14:41 UTC-5
Rio de Janeiro83%17:03 UTC-3
Santiago91%16:24 UTC-3
Buenos Aires70%16:37 UTC-3
Belo Horizonte93%17:06 UTC-3
Salvador95%17:14 UTC-3
Fortaleza63%17:20 UTC-3

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

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