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PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE21 May 2031Greatest eclipse at 07:14:53 UTC

The Sun at greatest eclipse, 21 May 2031.

5m 26s

AT GREATEST ECLIPSE

On 21 May 2031 the Moon passes centrally across the Sun but is too far from the Earth to cover it, leaving a ring of sunlight. The ring lasts 5m 26s at greatest eclipse, near 8.924° N, 71.711° E.

THE TRACK

Path of the shadow

Path of the shadow
The corridor of total eclipse, and the centre line the shadow follows through it.

The centre line crosses Angola · Congo - Kinshasa · India · Indonesia · Malaysia · Tanzania · Thailand · Zambia

Explore this eclipseDrag the clock and watch the shadow cross.

Where it will be seen

Everywhere the Moon covers at least half the Sun, deepest first.

ALSO VISIBLE FROM

Abu Dhabi · Abuja · Addis Ababa · Ahmedabad · Antananarivo · Ashgabat · Asmara · Baghdad · Bangui · Broome · Chengdu · Delhi · Dhaka · Djibouti · Doha · Douala · Dubai · Durban · Dushanbe · Exmouth · Guangzhou · Hanoi · Hong Kong · Isfahan · Islamabad · Jaipur · Jeddah · Johannesburg · Kabul · Kano · Karachi · Kathmandu · Khartoum · Kolkata · Kuwait City · Lahore · Lhasa · Libreville · Luxor · Manama · Manila · Maputo · Maseru · Mashhad · Mbabane · Mecca · Muscat · N'Djamena · Naha · Niamey · Perth · Port Louis · Pretoria · Riyadh · Saint-Denis · Samarkand · Sanaa · Shanghai · Shenzhen · Taipei · Tashkent · Tehran · Thimphu · Varanasi · Wuhan · Xi'an · Yaounde

Reference figures

Duration
5m 26s
MAGNITUDE
0.959
Greatest eclipse
8.924° N, 71.711° E
SAROS
138 · no. 35