Solar eclipse · Saturday 22 July 2028 · Queenstown, New Zealand

Total eclipse in Queenstown, 22 July 2028

The Sun will be completely hidden for 2 min 55 s, from 16:15:10 to 16:18:05 (local time in Auckland). At maximum, at 16:16:38, it will stand 10° above the horizon, towards the north-west.

The path near you

Queenstown lies inside the path of totality, 77 km from its nearest edge, towards the south-west. Beyond that line the Sun is only partly hidden. The centre line, where the eclipse lasts longest, runs 6 km further towards the north-east.

The times, for Queenstown

Phase	Local time	UT	Sun's altitudealt.
First contact — the Moon touches the Sun	15:07:31	03:07:31	18°
Totality begins	16:15:10	04:15:10	10°
Maximum	16:16:38	04:16:38	10°
Totality ends	16:18:05	04:18:05	10°
Last contact — the Moon leaves the Sun	17:20:08	05:20:08	1°

Duration of totality2 min 55 s
Total duration2 h 12 min
Share of the Sun covered100%
Magnitude1.021
Sun's altitude at maximum10°

What you will see

For a little over an hour, the Moon slowly bites into the Sun: to the naked eye nothing changes until more than three quarters of the disc are covered. Then the light drops quickly, shadows sharpen, the temperature falls.

At 16:15:10, the last sliver of Sun goes out. For 2 min 55 s you may look without protection: the corona appears around the black disc of the Moon, the brightest planets come out, the horizon takes on twilight colours all around. It is the only moment when eclipse glasses come off — and they go back on the instant the first ray returns, at 16:18:05.

The partial phase ends at 17:20:08.

How to look without burning your eyes →

Where these figures come from

Times and geometry computed by Novilune for the point 45.0322° S, 168.6610° E (altitude 319 m), from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE441 ephemeris, with ΔT = 69.4 s. The uncertainty on ΔT (± 6 s) shifts all the times together by a few seconds at most; atmospheric refraction is not applied (it does not change the contact times appreciably at this altitude of the Sun).

Times are given in local time in Auckland (UT +12:00).

In the app

Novilune draws this eclipse as it will be seen from Queenstown — the two discs at maximum, the Moon's path, the map of the path of totality — and does the same for every new moon from 2000 BC to AD 3000, for any place on Earth, offline.

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Also computed for this eclipse