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Eclipses and countries › 4 October 2070

Annular solar eclipse of 4 October 2070

Follow the shadow on the globe

5 countries have towns in the path: Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Madagascar. On the central line annularity lasts at most 2 min 45 s. The longest of these towns is Tôlanaro in Madagascar, with 2 min 41 s. There the path is about 121 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,400 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 05:29 to 08:45 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 04:19 to 09:55 UTC.

Open on the mapAll 44 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.

CountryPlacesAnnularityCloud coverStartsBest place
Angola756 s to 2 min 23 s44% to 70%06:29 UTC+1Menongue 31
Zambia71 min 46 s to 2 min 32 s21% to 34%07:35 UTC+2Siavonga 97
Zimbabwe1523 s to 2 min 35 s21% to 30%07:42 UTC+2Ruwa 100
Mozambique933 s to 2 min 33 s30% to 41%07:49 UTC+2Catandica 70
Madagascar631 s to 2 min 41 s25% to 48%09:14 UTC+3Betioky 86

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. Ruwa, Zimbabwe 1002 min 34 s · 25% cloud · Sun 31°
  2. Harare, Zimbabwe 1002 min 34 s · 26% cloud · Sun 30°
  3. Siavonga, Zambia 972 min 6 s · 21% cloud · Sun 27°
  4. Monze, Zambia 882 min 21 s · 27% cloud · Sun 26°
  5. Betioky, Madagascar 862 min 38 s · 25% cloud · Sun 48°
  6. Toliara, Madagascar 842 min 37 s · 26% cloud · Sun 47°
  7. Catandica, Mozambique 702 min 1 s · 30% cloud · Sun 33°
  8. Gorongosa, Mozambique 642 min 33 s · 39% cloud · Sun 34°
  9. Menongue, Angola 311 min 55 s · 44% cloud · Sun 14°
  10. Caluquembe, Angola 262 min 23 s · 48% cloud · Sun 11°

Longest of all: Tôlanaro, Madagascar, 2 min 41 s (score 42).

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
Kinshasa66%06:22 UTC+1
Lagos26%06:34 UTC+1
Johannesburg70%07:59 UTC+2
Melbourne39%18:27 UTC+10
Dar es Salaam55%08:41 UTC+3
Cape Town45%08:04 UTC+2
Nairobi40%08:31 UTC+3
Ibadan25%06:32 UTC+1

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

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