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Eclipses and countries › 11 June 2086

Total solar eclipse of 11 June 2086

Follow the shadow on the globe

One country has towns in the path: South Africa. The path also crosses Namibia and Botswana, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 1 min 48 s. The longest of these towns is Vredefort in South Africa, with 1 min 24 s. There the path is about 69 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,830 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 09:50 to 12:20 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 08:36 to 13:34 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 21 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
South Africa2118 s to 1 min 24 s21% to 32%13:44 UTC+2Stilfontein 100

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. Stilfontein, South Africa 1001 min 21 s · 23% cloud · Sun 35°
  2. Vredefort, South Africa 1001 min 24 s · 24% cloud · Sun 35°

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
Kinshasa41%12:12 UTC+1
São Paulo32%06:45 UTC-3
Johannesburg98%13:50 UTC+2
Rio de Janeiro38%06:33 UTC-3
Dar es Salaam24%15:11 UTC+3
Cape Town76%13:23 UTC+2
Durban98%13:55 UTC+2
Luanda57%12:06 UTC+1

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

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