TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE2 August 2046Greatest eclipse at 10:19:51 UTC
4m 51s
AT GREATEST ECLIPSE
On 2 August 2046 the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth, and along a narrow track the Sun is covered completely. Greatest eclipse lasts 4m 51s, near 12.735° S, 15.143° E.
THE TRACK
Path of the shadow
The centre line crosses Angola · Botswana · Eswatini · Namibia · South Africa
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.
- Mbabane Eswatini · Total 100%
- Maputo Mozambique · Partial 99.1%
- Pretoria South Africa · Partial 98.7%
- Johannesburg South Africa · Partial 97.2%
- Recife Brazil · Partial 97.2%
- Luanda Angola · Partial 96.6%
- Gaborone Botswana · Partial 96.5%
- Durban South Africa · Partial 94.5%
- Natal Brazil · Partial 88.6%
- Maseru Lesotho · Partial 87.7%
- Windhoek Namibia · Partial 81.5%
- Lusaka Zambia · Partial 80.2%
- Harare Zimbabwe · Partial 80.1%
- Kinshasa Congo - Kinshasa · Partial 78.4%
- Brazzaville Congo - Brazzaville · Partial 78.4%
- Fortaleza Brazil · Partial 76.8%
- Libreville Gabon · Partial 72.7%
- Jamestown St Helena · Partial 68.9%
- Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire · Partial 65.2%
- Accra Ghana · Partial 62.9%
- Monrovia Liberia · Partial 61.4%
- Lilongwe Malawi · Partial 61.3%
- Lome Togo · Partial 60.1%
- Douala Cameroon · Partial 59.5%
- Cotonou Benin · Partial 58.6%
- Yaounde Cameroon · Partial 57.8%
- Cape Town South Africa · Partial 57.4%
- Lagos Nigeria · Partial 57.3%
- Freetown Sierra Leone · Partial 52.3%
ALSO VISIBLE FROM
Abuja · Addis Ababa · Antananarivo · Bamako · Bangui · Banjul · Bujumbura · Conakry · Dakar · Dar es Salaam · Kampala · Kano · Kigali · Mogadishu · Mombasa · N'Djamena · Nairobi · Niamey · Nouakchott · Ouagadougou · Port Louis · Praia · Saint-Denis · Timbuktu · Zanzibar
Reference figures
- Duration
- 4m 51s
- MAGNITUDE
- 1.053
- Greatest eclipse
- 12.735° S, 15.143° E
- SAROS
- 146 · no. 23