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Cleveland's 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, By The Numbers

Enjoy some fun facts about the upcoming total solar eclipse in Northeast Ohio. 

by Annie Nickoloff | Mar. 26, 2024 | 10:00 AM

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1806: The last time Cleveland experienced a total solar eclipse.

2444: The next time Cleveland will experience a total solar eclipse.

124 miles: the width of the eclipse's path of totality.

10-20 degrees: the range the temperature can drop during a total solar eclipse.

229 seconds of totality in Downtown Cleveland.

233 seconds of totality in Avon Lake.

3:08 p.m.: eclipse enters Ohio.

3:19 p.m.: eclipse exits Ohio.

2,200 miles per hour: the speed at which the eclipse will move through Ohio.

$269,000,000 of economic impact in South Carolina during the 2017 total solar eclipse.

200,000 visitors expected in Cleveland for the total solar eclipse.

31,600,000 people live in the path of totality.

5: the number of solar eclipses that can happen in a year, mostly over oceans.

3: the number of years Ohio was a state of the United States, before the last total solar eclipse.

10: the number of years between Cleveland's founding and the city's last total solar eclipse. (At that time, it was spelled "Cleaveland.")

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Annie Nickoloff

Annie Nickoloff is the senior editor of Cleveland Magazine. She has written for a variety of publications, including The Plain Dealer, Alternative Press Magazine, Belt Magazine, USA Today and Paste Magazine. She hosts a weekly indie radio show called Sunny Day on WRUW FM 91.1 Cleveland and enjoys frequenting Cleveland's music venues, hiking trails and pinball arcades.

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