Table 1 — Total solar eclipses, 2005 – 2024*
Calendar date Maximum duration of
totality (min: s)
Geographic region of visibility
Apr. 8, 2005† 0:42 Starts annular in western Pacific Ocean, becomes total in
eastern Pacific, then becomes annular again for Costa Rica,
Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela
Mar. 29, 2006 4:07 Eastern Brazil, Atlantic Ocean, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria,
Niger, Chad, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Russia
Aug. 1, 2008 2:27 Northern Canada, Greenland, Arctic Ocean, Russia,
Mongolia, China
July 22, 2009 6:39 India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, China, Pacific Ocean
July 11, 2010 5:20 South Pacific Ocean, Easter Island, Chile, Argentina
Nov. 13/14, 2012 4:02 Northeastern Australia, south Pacific Ocean
Nov. 3, 2013† 1:40 Annular only at beginning and end of path: Atlantic Ocean,
Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya, then annular in Ethiopia
Mar. 20, 2015 2:47 North Atlantic Ocean, Faeroe Islands, Arctic Ocean, Svalbard
Mar. 9, 2016 4:10 Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Halmahera),
Pacific Ocean
Aug. 21, 2017 2:40 Pacific Ocean, United States (Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming,
Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee,
North Carolina, South Carolina), Atlantic Ocean
July 2, 2019 4:33 South Pacific Ocean, Chile, Argentina
Dec. 14, 2020 2:10 Pacific Ocean, Chile, Argentina, south Atlantic Ocean
Dec. 4, 2021 1:55 Antarctica
Apr. 20, 2023† 1:16 Total except at beginning and end of path: South Indian
Ocean, western Australia, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean
Apr. 8, 2024 4:28 Pacific Ocean, Mexico, United States (Texas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine),
southeastern Canada, Atlantic Ocean
*Data courtesy of M. Littmann, K. Willcox, and F. Espenak, Totality—Eclipses of the Sun, 3d ed., Oxford University Press, 2008.
†These are hybrid or annular-total eclipses. They are total along the middle portions of their paths but annular at the ends.
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