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.
- 08:36UTCNatalBrazil
- 09:08UTCTakoradiGhana
- 09:12UTCAccraGhana
- 09:36UTCKatsinaNigeria
- 10:56UTCAntalyaTurkey
- 11:00UTCKonyaTurkey
- 11:05UTCKayseriTurkey
- 11:25UTCAstrakhanRussia
The eclipse at a glance
- Greatest eclipse
- 10:11:22 UTC23.2° N, 16.7° E
- Obscuration
- 100%of the Sun covered at greatest eclipse
- Saros family
- Mar 18, 1988, one saros beforeApr 8, 2024, 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 15 countries and territories
- Brazil
- Ghana
- Ivory Coast
- Togo
- Benin
- Nigeria
- Niger
- Chad
- Libya
- Egypt
- Turkey
- Georgia
- Russia
- Kazakhstan
- Mongolia