The total eclipse of 22 July 2028

The path of totality reaches the Earth in the Indian Ocean and makes landfall in Australia in the Kimberley, near Wyndham and Kununurra. It then crosses the continent diagonally: the Tanami Desert, Tennant Creek, south-west Queensland, inland New South Wales (Bourke, Dubbo, Mudgee), the Blue Mountains, and finally Sydney, in mid-afternoon. It crosses the Tasman Sea and passes over the South Island of New Zealand, from Queenstown to Dunedin, with the Sun about ten degrees above the horizon, before ending in the Pacific.

Everywhere else in Australia and New Zealand the eclipse is partial: 81% of the Sun covered in Melbourne and Brisbane, 50% in Perth. It is partial too in Indonesia (96% in Bali) and New Caledonia (36% in Nouméa).

Ranked from the longest totality to the shortest. Times are local, to the second.

Every value on these pages is computed by Novilune from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE441 planetary ephemeris, for the exact coordinates and altitude of each city — not taken from a catalogue, nor interpolated between neighbouring cities.

At the point of greatest eclipse (15.5785° S, 126.6906° E) our computation gives a totality of 5 min 10 s. That figure may differ by a few seconds from the reference catalogues, such as Espenak and Meeus (NASA/TP-2006-214141): the conventional value adopted for the Moon's radius varies slightly from one source to another. We prefer to publish our own figure and say so, rather than copy someone else's.

The difference between astronomical time and the Earth's rotation (ΔT) is 69.4 s at this date, known to within ± 6 s. That uncertainty shifts all the times together, and the path by about 3 km east or west.