🇸🇴 Berbera, Somalia (Somaliland)
do not plan casually
No totality here. The moon's umbra misses Berbera:
the city sees a deep partial eclipse (magnitude 0.899), maximum at 10:55:29 UT.
A partial — even a 96% one — is nothing like totality, and partial phases are never safe
to watch without ISO-certified filters.
Read this first. Most governments advise against travel to Somalia including Somaliland. The eclipse is partial in Berbera; the only Somali totality is the remote far-northeastern tip of the country.
- Totality duration
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- Source: timeanddate.com local circumstances (partial; magnitude below); confirmed partial by our Besselian computation — see /methodology
- August cloud
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- Source: —
- Sun altitude at maximum
- 62.6°
- Computed. Above ~20° terrain rarely matters; this is a comfortable sky position.
- Trip effort — 5 / 5 how this is scored
- Visa: 4 — Somaliland issues its own visas, but advisories advise against all travel Flights: 4 — limited regional links Ground: 4 — thin road network Infrastructure: 5 — minimal
Sky: End-of-track section: the eclipse arrives near sunset here, and this site has not sourced local sky statistics.
Getting there: Berbera (BBO), minimal links. Severely limited; most governments advise against travel to the region.
Staying: Minimal.
Visa: Complex; regional authority documents.
Verdict: Correction over earlier path lists: Berbera sees a partial (magnitude 0.899), not totality — on the Horn, the umbra touches only Somalia's far northeastern tip near Caluula (computed 4m 15s). Not a travel option either way.
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