Annular solar eclipse of January 26, 2028: where to see it
On Wednesday, January 26, 2028, the Moon passes right in front of the Sun but is too far from Earth to cover it. Inside a band about 315 to 350 km wide a ring of sunlight stays around the Moon (an annular eclipse, the "ring of fire") for up to 10 minutes 31 seconds (NASA, in the Amazon in Pará, Brazil). The band starts at sunrise in the Pacific, crosses the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador and northern Peru, the Amazon past Iquitos and Manaus, and the Atlantic, and ends near sunset over Madeira, the Algarve, southern Spain, Gibraltar and the tip of Morocco around Tangier. Elsewhere in the Americas, western Europe and West Africa the eclipse is partial. Pick a place for its local times, the length of annularity and how high the Sun will be.
- Date
- Wednesday, January 26, 2028
- Longest on land (our list)
- Presidente Figueiredo, Brazil, 10 min 20 s
- Longest annularity
- 10 min 31 s, in the Amazon in Pará, Brazil
- Places on this page
- 104 in the path, 140 with a partial eclipse
Eye protection the whole time. An annular eclipse is never safe to look at without ISO 12312-2 eclipse glasses or a solar viewer, not even at annularity: the ring of Sun left showing can cause serious eye injury. Eye safety
Best places, by length of annularity
The longest annularity of the places on this page. The closer to the central line, the longer it lasts. The Amazon in Brazil, from Manaus east, has the longest annularity; in Portugal and Spain it is shorter and the Sun is low in the southwest.
| # | Place | Annularity | Starts (local) | Sun height |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Presidente Figueiredo, Brazil | 10 min 20 s | 10:24:51 UTC-4 | 60° |
| 2 | Novo Airão, Brazil | 10 min 4 s | 10:21:01 UTC-4 | 59° |
| 3 | Tefé, Brazil | 10 min 0 s | 10:08:14 UTC-4 | 53° |
| 4 | Alvarães, Brazil | 9 min 56 s | 10:08:14 UTC-4 | 53° |
| 5 | Juruá, Brazil | 9 min 49 s | 10:04:13 UTC-4 | 51° |
| 6 | Leticia, Colombia | 9 min 31 s | 08:52:57 UTC-5 | 45° |
| 7 | Tabatinga, Brazil | 9 min 31 s | 09:52:56 UTC-4 | 45° |
| 8 | Uarini, Brazil | 9 min 30 s | 10:07:52 UTC-4 | 52° |
| 9 | Atalaia do Norte, Brazil | 9 min 25 s | 08:52:11 UTC-5 | 45° |
| 10 | Benjamin Constant, Brazil | 9 min 25 s | 08:52:35 UTC-5 | 45° |
| 11 | Rio Preto da Eva, Brazil | 8 min 41 s | 10:25:32 UTC-4 | 61° |
| 12 | Iquitos, Peru | 8 min 40 s | 08:45:47 UTC-5 | 40° |
| 13 | São Paulo de Olivença, Brazil | 8 min 40 s | 09:57:06 UTC-4 | 47° |
| 14 | Zamora, Ecuador | 8 min 39 s | 08:33:58 UTC-5 | 32° |
| 15 | Loja, Ecuador | 8 min 39 s | 08:33:33 UTC-5 | 32° |
| 16 | Catamayo, Ecuador | 8 min 38 s | 08:33:18 UTC-5 | 32° |
| 17 | Piñas, Ecuador | 8 min 33 s | 08:32:59 UTC-5 | 31° |
| 18 | Oiapoque, Brazil | 8 min 31 s | 12:04:34 UTC-3 | 66° |
| 19 | Tumbes, Peru | 8 min 28 s | 08:31:51 UTC-5 | 30° |
| 20 | Arenillas, Ecuador | 8 min 28 s | 08:32:29 UTC-5 | 31° |
| 21 | Zarumilla, Peru | 8 min 25 s | 08:32:11 UTC-5 | 30° |
| 22 | Huaquillas, Ecuador | 8 min 24 s | 08:32:18 UTC-5 | 30° |
| 23 | Santa Rosa, Ecuador | 8 min 21 s | 08:32:47 UTC-5 | 31° |
| 24 | Cariamanga, Ecuador | 8 min 15 s | 08:32:55 UTC-5 | 31° |
| 25 | Santo Antônio do Içá, Brazil | 8 min 9 s | 10:00:14 UTC-4 | 48° |
The longest in each country
| Country | Place | Annularity | Starts (local) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Presidente Figueiredo | 10 min 20 s | 10:24:51 UTC-4 |
| Colombia | Leticia | 9 min 31 s | 08:52:57 UTC-5 |
| Peru | Iquitos | 8 min 40 s | 08:45:47 UTC-5 |
| Ecuador | Zamora | 8 min 39 s | 08:33:58 UTC-5 |
| Spain | Sevilla | 7 min 15 s | 17:52:19 UTC+1 |
| Portugal | Tavira | 7 min 3 s | 16:51:47 UTC+0 |
| Gibraltar | Gibraltar | 3 min 59 s | 17:54:30 UTC+1 |
| Morocco | Tangier | 2 min 33 s | 16:55:08 UTC+0 |
Places in the path of annularity
West to east, in the order the shadow arrives. Each place's page has its local times.
Ecuador 21 places, up to 8 min 39 s
- Zamora 8:39
- Loja 8:39
- Catamayo 8:38
- Piñas 8:33
- Arenillas 8:28
- Huaquillas 8:24
- Santa Rosa 8:21
- Cariamanga 8:15
- Pasaje 8:07
- Machala 8:01
- Puerto Villamil 6:55
- Cuenca 6:27
- Gualaceo 6:20
- Posorja 6:14
- Playas 5:55
- Puerto Ayora 5:42
- Puerto Baquerizo Moreno 5:41
- Naranjal 5:38
- Azogues 5:26
- La Libertad 3:07
- La Troncal 2:56
Peru 11 places, up to 8 min 40 s
Brazil 26 places, up to 10 min 20 s
- Presidente Figueiredo 10:20
- Novo Airão 10:04
- Tefé 10:00
- Alvarães 9:56
- Juruá 9:49
- Tabatinga 9:31
- Uarini 9:30
- Atalaia do Norte 9:25
- Benjamin Constant 9:25
- Rio Preto da Eva 8:41
- São Paulo de Olivença 8:40
- Oiapoque 8:31
- Santo Antônio do Içá 8:09
- Manacapuru 7:23
- Coari 7:21
- Manaus 7:15
- Tonantins 7:08
- Carauari 7:05
- Codajás 6:58
- Fonte Boa 6:42
- Anori 6:30
- Iranduba 6:22
- Manaquiri 6:01
- Careiro da Várzea 5:57
- Beruri 4:21
- Urucará 2:56
Colombia 1 place, up to 9 min 31 s
- Leticia 9:31
Portugal 11 places, up to 7 min 3 s
Spain 30 places, up to 7 min 15 s
- Sevilla 7:15
- Dos Hermanas 7:14
- Córdoba 7:13
- Huelva 7:11
- Albacete 7:06
- Linares 7:05
- Sanlúcar de Barrameda 7:03
- Campiña 6:57
- Jaén 6:51
- Jerez de la Frontera 6:48
- Cadiz 6:40
- Ciudad Real 6:35
- Chiclana de la Frontera 6:19
- Granada 5:22
- Estepona 4:58
- Málaga 4:53
- Marbella 4:52
- Mijas 4:45
- Torremolinos 4:35
- Vélez-Málaga 4:33
- Algeciras 4:10
- La Línea de la Concepción 4:07
- Lorca 4:05
- Tarifa 3:52
- Toledo 3:14
- Aranjuez 3:14
- Mérida 2:53
- Motril 2:43
- Ceuta 1:19
- Valdemoro 0:36
Gibraltar 1 place, up to 3 min 59 s
- Gibraltar 3:59
Just outside the path
Big places with a deep partial eclipse (70% or more of the Sun covered) where the Moon never sits wholly inside the Sun, so there's no ring. A short trip into the path is worth it.
- Guayaquil, Ecuador 84% covered; annularity 38 mi away
- Milagro, Ecuador 84% covered; annularity 27 mi away
- Daule, Ecuador 83% covered; annularity 58 mi away
- Riobamba, Ecuador 83% covered; annularity 71 mi away
- Ambato, Ecuador 82% covered; annularity 96 mi away
- Portoviejo, Ecuador 82% covered; annularity 87 mi away
- Manta, Ecuador 81% covered; annularity 89 mi away
- Quevedo, Ecuador 81% covered; annularity 97 mi away
- Latacunga, Ecuador 81% covered; annularity 114 mi away
- Chiclayo, Peru 81% covered; annularity 118 mi away
- Cajamarca, Peru 80% covered; annularity 183 mi away
- Macapá, Brazil 82% covered; annularity 268 mi away
- Santarém, Brazil 82% covered; annularity 211 mi away
- Badajoz, Spain 83% covered; annularity 34 mi away
- Almería, Spain 83% covered; annularity 59 mi away
- Alcalá de Henares, Spain 83% covered; annularity 26 mi away
- Madrid, Spain 82% covered; annularity 16 mi away
- Salamanca, Spain 80% covered; annularity 116 mi away
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain 79% covered; annularity 293 mi away
- Tétouan, Morocco 83% covered; annularity 19 mi away
- Larache, Morocco 83% covered; annularity 39 mi away
- Ksar El Kebir, Morocco 82% covered; annularity 48 mi away
- Kenitra, Morocco 81% covered; annularity 107 mi away
- El Jadida, Morocco 81% covered; annularity 226 mi away
- Rabat, Morocco 81% covered; annularity 129 mi away
- Casablanca, Morocco 81% covered; annularity 176 mi away
- Al Hoceïma, Morocco 81% covered; annularity 89 mi away
- Berrechid, Morocco 80% covered; annularity 194 mi away
- Safi, Morocco 79% covered; annularity 303 mi away
- Khemisset, Morocco 79% covered; annularity 130 mi away
- Nador, Morocco 79% covered; annularity 114 mi away
- Settat, Morocco 79% covered; annularity 211 mi away
- Meknes, Morocco 79% covered; annularity 126 mi away
- Fes, Morocco 79% covered; annularity 126 mi away
- Khouribga, Morocco 78% covered; annularity 203 mi away
- Taza, Morocco 78% covered; annularity 137 mi away
- Setúbal, Portugal 82% covered; annularity 66 mi away
- Lisbon, Portugal 81% covered; annularity 85 mi away
- Leiria, Portugal 79% covered; annularity 130 mi away
- Coimbra, Portugal 79% covered; annularity 142 mi away
Partial eclipse in big cities
How much of the Sun the Moon covers at its greatest, and when (local time).
Eye safety
- Look at the partly eclipsed Sun only through eclipse glasses or a handheld solar viewer that meets the ISO 12312-2 standard. Ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe.
- An annular eclipse is never safe to look at without eye protection, not even at annularity. At its greatest the Moon leaves a ring of the Sun's bright surface showing (the "ring of fire"), and looking at it without a solar filter can cause serious eye injury. Keep the glasses on the whole time you look at the Sun, from the first contact to the last: there is no moment to take them off.
- Never look through a camera, binoculars or a telescope at the Sun, even with eclipse glasses on: those need their own solar filter fitted on the front.
- Check the glasses before you use them and throw away any that are scratched, torn or damaged. Watch children while they use them.
From the guidance of NASA and the American Astronomical Society: NASA's eclipse safety page · The American Astronomical Society's list of safe viewers and filters.
Eclipse glasses
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How we work out the times
We compute every place ourselves from the positions of the Sun and Moon (the astronomy-engine library), for the place's own latitude, longitude and height, with NASA's Moon and Sun sizes and the Delta T NASA used for this eclipse (71.9 s). To check the method we computed the points on NASA's published central line: our annularity lengths match NASA's to within 0.3 s at all 14 points.
| Time (UT) | Where on the central line | NASA | Ours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:24 | Pacific Ocean, just south of the Galápagos | 465.8 s | 465.8 s |
| 13:36 | Northern Peru, near Tumbes | 512.9 s | 512.8 s |
| 13:44 | Peruvian Amazon (Loreto) | 537.2 s | 537.1 s |
| 13:52 | Peruvian Amazon, near the Brazil border | 558.3 s | 558.1 s |
| 14:04 | Amazonas, Brazil | 584.5 s | 584.3 s |
| 14:20 | Amazonas, Brazil, west of Manaus | 610.1 s | 609.9 s |
| 14:34 | Amazonas, Brazil, northeast of Manaus | 623.9 s | 623.7 s |
| 14:52 | Pará, Brazil | 630.5 s | 630.2 s |
| 15:10 | Amapá, Brazil, near the Atlantic coast | 626.0 s | 625.7 s |
| 15:40 | Atlantic Ocean | 599.0 s | 598.7 s |
| 16:10 | Atlantic Ocean | 554.4 s | 554.3 s |
| 16:40 | Atlantic Ocean | 492.8 s | 492.7 s |
| 16:50 | Atlantic Ocean, south of Madeira | 463.5 s | 463.4 s |
| 16:56 | Andalusia, Spain, near Seville | 434.7 s | 434.6 s |
Times are computed, not observed: check them before you travel. They come from our own calculation (astronomy-engine, the same Moon and Sun sizes and Delta T as NASA's predictions) and agree with NASA's published central-line durations to within a second, but they leave out the mountains and valleys on the Moon's edge (NASA: about 1 to 3 seconds of annularity, and 1 to 3 km at the edges of the path), your exact spot in town and the weather.
Sources: eclipse times computed by FitzTopPicks with astronomy-engine (MIT License) and checked against NASA's path table (Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC, eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov). Places and time zones: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Map outlines: Natural Earth (public domain). Airports: OurAirports (public domain).