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What this is and is not

The durations are computed from the official NASA/GSFC Besselian elements for this eclipse and are checked against the app before this page deploys. The cloud figures are history, not a forecast. They come from NASA’s MODIS instruments, which map cloud every day in 5 km squares: each is the average share of clear sky over the land within about 12 km of the city, every day from 18 July to 17 August, 2001 to 2025 (Aqua from 2002), which makes it the chance a spot there had the Sun in clear sky. The satellites pass at fixed times of day, about 10:30 and 13:30 local solar time, not at the eclipse, so each city uses the pass nearest its own. (Both orbits have drifted since 2022, Terra earlier and Aqua later, so the last three summers were read up to about an hour from those times; leaving them out changes no figure by more than 2 points.) Where the eclipse comes before about 11:30 local solar time (Portugal to Greece and Libya, and Siwa), that is the morning pass, which comes between about an hour before the eclipse and two and a half hours after it. Where it comes after about 12:30 (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Egypt’s Red Sea coast), it is the afternoon pass, within about an hour of it. In between (most of Egypt, and Jerusalem), the figure is the mean of the two. Each city’s page gives its own gap. No figure can tell one street from the next.

Greatest eclipse falls at 10:06:38 UTC, and the longest totality anywhere on the track is 6m 23s. Nothing here accounts for what it costs to get to a place, whether you can, or whether you should.

Cloud data: NASA MODIS cloud fraction (Terra MOD06_L2 and Aqua MYD06_L2, Collection 6.1, 5 km), 18 July–17 August 2001–2025 (Aqua from 2002), via NASA GIBS; accessed 27 September 2026.