Total Solar Eclipse of 2 August 2046

Total eclipse · saros 146

2 August 2046

Eclipse day approaches

Greatest totality: 4m 51s; NASA catalogue central duration.
Magnitude: 1.053; Fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at greatest eclipse.

The order the shadow crosses the path, west → east.

1Brazil
2Angola
3Namibia
4Botswana
5South Africa
6Mozambique

Totality runs from Brazil across the south Atlantic into southern Africa.

Country sequence from the NASA GSFC catalogue. This is a schematic order, not a geographic map — see methodology.

Computed visibility map: shading shows how much of the Sun is covered at local maximum; the outlined dark band is the path of totality. — Where the 2 August 2046 eclipse is visible — computed from NASA Besselian elements on a fine world grid; gold shading is the fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at local maximum, the outlined band is totality. Coastlines: Natural Earth. Click the map to zoom.

The facts, in one place

Date (UT)	2 August 2046
Type	Total
Greatest totality	4m 51s
Magnitude	1.053
Saros series	146
Path countries	Brazil → Angola → Namibia → Botswana → South Africa → Mozambique

Why it matters: A trans-Atlantic path linking Brazil and southern Africa.

This page carries NASA catalogue facts only — no city timings yet. When this eclipse gets close enough to plan, it will get the same treatment as 2027 and 2028: local circumstances computed for the path cities with our validated engine, cloud climatology where a source exists, and honest dashes where one doesn't.

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Source: NASA GSFC eclipse catalogue (SEdecade tables), fetched 2026-08-09.