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.
- 09:20UTCLagosNigeria
- 09:24UTCBenin CityNigeria
- 09:54UTCN'DjamenaChad
- 11:33UTCShirazIran
- 11:51UTCBannuPakistan
- 11:52UTCPeshawarPakistan
- 11:52UTCRawalpindiPakistan
- 11:53UTCSrinagarIndia
The eclipse at a glance
- Greatest eclipse
- 10:17:27 UTC16.0° N, 22.2° E
- Obscuration
- 100%of the Sun covered at greatest eclipse
- Saros family
- Mar 9, 2016, one saros beforeEclipses about 18 years and 11 days apart, with the same orbital geometry and shifted about 120° west each cycle.
- The central path crosses 13 countries and territories
- Benin
- Nigeria
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Sudan
- Egypt
- Saudi Arabia
- Kuwait
- Iran
- Afghanistan
- Pakistan
- India
- People's Republic of China