Total solar eclipse in Sydney — 22 July 2028
The Sun is completely covered over Sydney for 3 minutes 48 seconds, from 13:59:56 GMT+10 to 14:03:45 GMT+10. Computed for 33.87°S 151.21°E, 19 m above sea level.
Open Sydney in the tracker Move the pin to where you will actually be standing — near the edge of the path, a few kilometres change totality by minutes.
Contact times in Sydney
| Phase | Local time (GMT+10) | UTC |
|---|---|---|
| First contactThe Moon touches the Sun's edge and the partial phase begins | 12:41:08 | 02:41:08 |
| Totality beginsSecond contact | 13:59:56 | 03:59:56 |
| MaximumMid-eclipse | 14:01:51 | 04:01:51 |
| Totality endsThird contact | 14:03:45 | 04:03:45 |
| Last contactThe Moon leaves the Sun and the eclipse is over | 15:15:00 | 05:15:00 |
What it looks like from here
- What is seen
- Total — 3m 48s of totality
- Sun covered at maximum
- 100%
- Magnitude
- 1.022 of the Sun's diameter
- Sun's altitude at maximum
- 28.8° above the horizon
- Sun's bearing at maximum
- 328° from north
- The whole eclipse lasts
- 2h 34m
- Position used
- 33.87°S 151.21°E, 19 m
Elevation matters near the edge of the path: a mountain and the valley below it do not get the same eclipse, which is why the figure above says which was used.
Elsewhere under this eclipse
- Kununurra 2m 13s of totality
- Tennant Creek 2m 55s of totality
- Bourke 4m 10s of totality
- Dubbo 3m 57s of totality
- Queenstown 2m 57s of totality
- Dunedin 2m 51s of totality
Carry this in your pocket
Umbro for iPhone and iPad computes these same contact times on the device, for wherever you are standing, with no signal needed — which matters, because a good many eclipses are best seen from somewhere without any. It adds a Lock Screen countdown, Home Screen widgets, a camera built for totality, and it says plainly when the Sun can and cannot be looked at.
