Path of totality
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Cities along the path
Cities along the path
Time of maximum in UTC, to the minute: when the centre of the shadow passes nearest.
- 10:38UTCMunichGermany
- 11:07UTCBucharestRomania
- 11:40UTCDiyarbakırTurkey
- 11:47UTCMosulIraq
- 12:04UTCIsfahanIran
- 12:27UTCKarachiPakistan
- 12:32UTCVadodaraIndia
- 12:36UTCNowrangapurIndia
The eclipse at a glance
- Greatest eclipse
- 11:03:02 UTC45.1° N, 24.3° E
- Obscuration
- 100%of the Sun covered at greatest eclipse
- Saros family
- Jul 31, 1981, one saros beforeAug 21, 2017, one saros afterEclipses about 18 years and 11 days apart, with the same orbital geometry and shifted about 120° west each cycle.
- The central path crosses 18 countries and territories
- United Kingdom
- Guernsey
- France
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Germany
- Austria
- Slovenia
- Hungary
- Serbia
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Turkey
- Syria
- Iraq
- Iran
- Pakistan
- India