Eclipses and countries › 31 May 2068
Total solar eclipse of 31 May 2068
One country has towns in the path: Australia. The path also crosses New Zealand, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 1 min 6 s. The longest of these towns is Rockingham in Australia, with 1 min 2 s. There the path is about 59 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,300 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 02:49 to 05:00 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 01:29 to 06:20 UTC.
Open on the mapAll 10 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.
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.
- Mildura, Australia 10035 s · 48% cloud · Sun 26°
- Gosnells, Australia 881 min 0 s · 61% cloud · Sun 35°
Longest of all: Rockingham, Australia, 1 min 2 s (score 61).
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.
| City | Sun covered | Deepest |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney | 91% | 14:56 UTC+10 |
| Melbourne | 94% | 14:42 UTC+10 |
| Surabaya | 27% | 10:30 UTC+7 |
| Brisbane | 71% | 15:03 UTC+10 |
| Bandung | 22% | 10:17 UTC+7 |
| Perth | 100% | 11:35 UTC+8 |
Not visible from Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Lisbon, Moscow, Cairo, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.