Annular solar eclipse of June 1, 2030

The path of the ring

Greece, Istanbul and Crimea, in the morning

Hokkaido, late in the afternoon

Times along the path

Local clock times, in the order the ring arrives. It reaches southern Tunisia soon after sunrise, Athens and Istanbul a few minutes later in the morning, Siberia around midday and Hokkaido late in the afternoon, some three hours after it began.

Near the path: a partial eclipse

Watching it safely

• Look at the Sun only through eclipse glasses or a handheld solar viewer made to the ISO 12312-2 standard. Ordinary sunglasses, however dark, are not safe.
• An annular eclipse never covers the whole Sun, so the glasses stay on the whole time, during the ring too.
• Never look through a camera, binoculars or a telescope without a solar filter fitted over the front, even while wearing eclipse glasses.
• Without glasses, watch it indirectly: a pinhole in a card, or the holes of a colander, projects the crescent and then the ring onto the ground with the Sun behind you.

This follows NASA's eclipse safety guidance. In Greece and Turkey the ring comes in the morning with the Sun some 18 to 28° up in the east, and in Hokkaido in the late afternoon with the Sun about 20° up in the west, so choose a spot with a clear view that way.

How these times are worked out

The path, its width and the greatest eclipse come from NASA's predictions by Fred Espenak (GSFC). The times for each place are computed with Astronomy Engine, which treats the Sun and Moon as smooth spheres. NASA notes that the Moon's mountains and valleys shift the edges of the path by 1 to 3 km and change the duration by 1 to 3 seconds, so durations here are rounded down to 10 seconds. Predictions that follow the Moon's edge in detail can still come a few seconds shorter. In the first minutes after sunrise the shadow races across the Sahara and the Mediterranean faster than NASA's table, with a row every two minutes, can follow, so the map draws the path's edges there as straight lines; each place's own answer comes from Astronomy Engine. If your spot is near an edge, as Valletta, Larissa, Kostanay, Jiamusi and Nemuro are, check NASA's map before you travel.

The eclipses before this one have their own paths and times: the total solar eclipses of August 2, 2027 (southern Spain, North Africa and Egypt) and July 22, 2028 (Australia and New Zealand), and the annular eclipse of January 26, 2028 (the Amazon, Portugal and Spain). The next one, the total solar eclipse of November 25, 2030, crosses South Africa and Australia: its path and times. For every other eclipse, solar and lunar, see when the next eclipse is.