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What Will The 1999 Solar Eclipse

Look Like From Your City?

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Partial phases of the solar eclipse of 1999 August 11 will be visible from northeastern North America, all of Europe, northern Africa and the western half of Asia (See: Map for 1999 August 11).

The following table lists times* and local circumstances** at maximum eclipse for a number of cities in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Cities are listed alphabetically by country first, then city name. Click on a city of your choice and get a preview of how maximum eclipse will appear. Each eclipse GIF is only 11 kBytes in size, so access time should be fast!

* Times listed are in Universal Time. To convert to local time, see 1999 Eclipse Time Zones.

** Mag. = Eclipse Magnitude or fraction of Sun's diameter eclipsed by the Moon.
** Alt. = Altitude of Sun and Maximum Eclipse.

If you find problems with any of the links on this page, kindly bring them to the attention of Fred Espenak (espenak@lepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov).

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Africa and Mediterranean

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                                                        Duration
                         Eclipse U.T. of                Partial
 City Name                 Type  Maximum    Mag.   Alt. Eclipse



Tirane, Albania P 10:58:21 0.877 64° 02h52m -
Algiers, Algeria P 10:23:30 0.634 61° 02h45m -
Lesmesos, Cyprus P 11:33:37 0.840 60° 02h48m -
Nicosia, Cyprus P 11:33:24 0.856 60° 02h48m -
Alexandria, Egypt P 11:33:15 0.712 64° 02h49m -
Cairo, Egypt P 11:37:54 0.699 63° 02h47m -
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia P 12:25:30 0.247 47° 01h47m -
Tripoli, Libya P 10:50:52 0.577 72° 02h50m -
Casablanca, Morocco P 09:59:43 0.513 50° 02h29m -
Rabat, Morocco P 10:01:21 0.526 51° 02h30m -
Moqadisho, Somalia P 12:41:28 0.152 35° 01h19m -
Khartoum, Sudan P 12:05:14 0.331 59° 02h11m -
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Middle East and Asia

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                                                        Duration  Duration
                         Eclipse U.T. of                Partial   Total
 City Name                 Type  Maximum    Mag.   Alt. Eclipse   Eclipse



Kabul, Afghanistan P 12:12:35 0.780 24° 02h06m -
Jerevan, Armenia P 11:42:03 0.925 48° 02h35m -
Baku, Azerbaijan P 11:48:03 0.862 43° 02h28m -
Chittagong, Bangladesh P 12:26:20 0.849 0° 00h52m -
Dacca, Bangladesh P 12:28:33 0.839 1° 01h02m -
Chengtu, China P 11:49:27 0.370 0° 00h23m -
Chungking, China P 11:40:30 0.228 0° 00h14m -
Shuicheng, China P 11:40:33 0.193 0° 00h11m -
Sian, China P 11:36:09 0.206 0° 00h13m -
Tbilisi, Georgia P 11:39:50 0.889 48° 02h33m -
Ahmadabad, India P 12:30:33 0.995 16° 02h03m -
Bangalore, India P 12:42:16 0.816 6° 01h34m -
Bombay, India P 12:35:43 0.927 14° 02h01m -
Calcutta, India P 12:30:25 0.879 2° 01h08m -
Delhi, India P 12:23:30 0.829 14° 01h59m -
Hyderabad, India P 12:37:40 0.936 8° 01h40m -
Kanpur, India P 12:26:39 0.850 11° 01h52m -
Kanpur, India P 12:26:39 0.850 11° 01h52m -
Madras, India P 12:41:49 0.840 4° 01h19m -
Nagpur, India P 12:33:20 0.982 9° 01h44m -
Pune, India P 12:36:20 0.925 13° 02h00m -
Isfahan, Iran T 12:03:29 1.025 41° 02h28m 01m33s
Mashhad, Iran P 12:04:07 0.841 34° 02h17m -
Tehran, Iran P 11:58:02 0.943 41° 02h28m -
Baghdad, Iraq P 11:53:50 0.947 48° 02h37m -
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel P 11:41:07 0.796 59° 02h46m -
'Amman, Jordan P 11:43:22 0.808 58° 02h45m -
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan P 12:00:39 0.558 21° 01h51m -
Al-Kuwayt, Kuwait P 12:05:16 0.898 44° 02h32m -
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan P 12:00:33 0.582 22° 01h55m -
Beirut, Lebanon P 11:39:19 0.850 58° 02h46m -
Male, Maldives P 12:50:08 0.539 6° 01h22m -
Valletta, Malta P 10:51:32 0.678 69° 02h53m -
Kisin'ov, Moldova P 11:08:35 0.927 56° 02h42m -
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia P 11:52:09 0.319 3° 01h09m -
Yangon, Myanmar P 12:02:07 0.413 0° 00h23m -
Karachi, Pakistan T 12:26:33 1.020 22° 02h09m 01m13s
Lahore, Pakistan P 12:18:46 0.793 18° 02h01m -
Novosibirsk, Russia P 11:41:32 0.357 20° 01h33m -
Omsk, Russia P 11:38:46 0.417 26° 01h44m -
Jiddah, Saudi Arabia P 12:06:51 0.587 52° 02h30m -
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia P 12:11:46 0.770 44° 02h30m -
Colombo, Sri Lanka P 12:47:09 0.670 2° 01h04m -
Damascus, Syria P 11:41:21 0.851 57° 02h45m -
Halab, Syria P 11:38:12 0.927 56° 02h44m -
Dusanbe, Tajikistan P 12:05:38 0.707 26° 02h05m -
Bangkok, Thailand P 11:41:47 0.010 0° 00h01m -
Tunis, Tunisia P 10:40:22 0.673 66° 02h51m -
Ankara, Turkey P 11:24:58 0.969 58° 02h47m -
Istanbul, Turkey P 11:16:29 0.955 60° 02h49m -
Izmir, Turkey P 11:16:38 0.869 63° 02h51m -
Taskent, Uzbekistan P 12:01:10 0.653 26° 02h02m -

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Last revised: 2004 Nov 09 - F. Espenak