Tokyo’s Haneda Airport has managed to snag the top spot as world's most cleanest airport.
12.04.2024 - 19:15 / cntraveler.com
The totality of an eclipse is never long enough. My first total solar eclipse experience in 2017 made for the shortest two minutes of my life: the sun transforming into a blazing diamond ring, the beautiful delirium of darkness, that perfect circle in the sky. Before I knew it, the eclipse was over—and my friends and I were plotting how we could catch our next.
During my second total eclipse in Ohio, I savored nearly double that time—four minutes of totality. Those extra moments gave me time to tune into the full sensory experience. As birds slowed their songs, crickets filled the false twilight with their chirping. All the people around me fell silent amid the cool, still air, and the corona of the sun radiated and wisped above. It wasn’t long after those beautiful four minutes ended that I began scheming, again, about my next opportunity to relive the cosmic experience. Now, I’ve fully embraced my identity as an umbraphile—literally, a “shadow lover,” but better known as someone who chases total solar eclipses.
For umbraphiles like myself based in the United States, the next total solar eclipse to hit the US is in 2033—although it will only grace the western half of Alaska, along with Russia. In 2044, another total solar eclipse will swoop across Canada into Montana and the Dakotas. The next “Great American Eclipse” to cut across a wide swath of the nation won’t arrive until 2045, though that one will stretch all the way from Northern California to Florida, across Utah, Colorado, Georgia, and many more states.
If you can’t bear to wait more than two decades for that stunning event, the good news is that many more eclipses will occur before then—you just have to go abroad to catch them. Whether you saw the 2024 total solar eclipse and are eager to plan your next trip to the path of totality, or you missed it and want to discover what all the hype is about, consider this your guide to seeing a total solar eclipse in the next four years.
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Your earliest chance to catch another total solar eclipse is August 12, 2026, when the path of totality will curve northeast across the Arctic Ocean and south through remote eastern Greenland, terminating in the Balearic Sea just east of Mallorca. While there are several worthy destinations for umbraphiles during the 2026 eclipse, the totality experience will be relatively short, lasting only 1-2 minutes, depending on where you are within the path.
One spot to add to your eclipse planning list is Western Iceland, where you may also be able to catch Northern Lights on your trip to enhance the cosmic experience. The capital of Reykjavik sits on the edge of
Tokyo’s Haneda Airport has managed to snag the top spot as world's most cleanest airport.
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