Eclipses and countries › 23 September 2071
Total solar eclipse of 23 September 2071

4 countries have towns in the path: Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. The path also crosses Guyana, Suriname and France, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 3 min 11 s. The longest of these towns is Maicao in Colombia, with 3 min 7 s. There the path is about 117 km wide and the shadow moves at about 2,140 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 15:36 to 19:01 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 14:36 to 20:01 UTC.
Open on the mapAll 77 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.
| Country | Places | Totality | Cloud cover | Starts | Best place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 38 | 48 s to 2 min 56 s | 21% to 56% | 08:48 UTC-7 | Hermosillo 100 |
| Colombia | 4 | 48 s to 3 min 7 s | 63% to 70% | 12:32 UTC-5 | Maicao 28 |
| Venezuela | 34 | 25 s to 3 min 5 s | 52% to 68% | 13:36 UTC-4 | Caicara del Orinoco 39 |
| Brazil | 1 | 2 min 7 s | 32% | 15:34 UTC-3 | Tartarugalzinho 80 |
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.
- Hermosillo, Mexico 1001 min 39 s · 21% cloud · Sun 34°
- Tartarugalzinho, Brazil 802 min 7 s · 32% cloud · Sun 40°
- Cuauhtémoc, Mexico 752 min 1 s · 34% cloud · Sun 38°
- Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela 392 min 38 s · 53% cloud · Sun 64°
- Calabozo, Venezuela 392 min 21 s · 53% cloud · Sun 66°
- Maicao, Colombia 283 min 7 s · 63% cloud · Sun 72°
- Riohacha, Colombia 212 min 57 s · 68% cloud · Sun 73°
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico City | 79% | 10:18 UTC-6 |
| New York City | 21% | 12:53 UTC-4 |
| Bogotá | 76% | 12:42 UTC-5 |
| Bamako | 28% | 18:27 UTC+0 |
| Los Angeles | 90% | 08:48 UTC-7 |
| Caracas | 95% | 13:50 UTC-4 |
| Toronto | 20% | 12:41 UTC-4 |
| Quito | 50% | 12:39 UTC-5 |
Not visible from Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Lisbon, Moscow, Cairo, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.