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What time is the total solar eclipse in your city? Top 40 places in northwest Ohio for totality

The once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse will be viewed by millions on April 8. For many in northwest Ohio, we won't have to leave our backyards.

TOLEDO, Ohio — We are now less than 60 days until the spectacle of the total solar eclipse across the skies of northwest Ohio.

Dozens and dozens of communities in northwest Ohio are in the direct path of totality, providing an extremely rare opportunity to view the sun's corona or outer atmosphere.

Credit: WTOL

For the total solar eclipse, totality is everything. To get the full viewing experience, you must be in the direct path of totality.

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Here is what the moment of totality will appear like for millions of people in anxious anticipation of the total solar eclipse on April 8.

Credit: WTOL

Fortunately for northwest Ohio, that direct path includes dozens and dozens of communities.

But, what will be the best communities for totality as far as the length of time and when exactly will totality occur?

  1. Forest: 3:10:40 p.m.- 3:14:36 p.m.
        - (Totality 3m 56s)
  2. Kenton: 3:10:26 p.m. - 3:14:21 p.m.  
        - (Totality 3m 55s)
  3. Bloomville: 3:11:34 p.m. - 3:15:29 p.m. 
        - (Totality 3m 55s)
  4. Upper Sandusky: 3:11:02 p.m. - 3:14:56 p.m. 
        - (Totality 3m 54s)
  5. Norwalk: 3:12:16 p.m. - 3:16:10 p.m. 
        - (Totality 3m 54s)
  6. Tiffin: 3:11:24 p.m. - 3:15:17 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 53s)
  7. Wakeman: 3:12:35 p.m. - 3:16:28 p.m. 
        - (Totality 3m 53s)
  8. New Riegel: 3:11:10 p.m. - 3:15:02 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 52s)
  9. Vanlue: 3:10:53 p.m. - 3:14:45 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 52s)
  10. Willard: 3:12:00 p.m. - 3:15:52 p.m.
         - (Totality 3m 52s)
  11. Huron: 3:12:29 p.m. - 3:16:20 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 51s)
  12. Green Springs: 3:11:43 p.m. - 3:15:31 p.m.
         - (Totality 3m 48s)
  13. Bucyrus: 3:11:31 p.m. - 3:15:18 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 47s)
  14. Clyde: 3:11:52 p.m. - 3:15:39 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 47s)
  15. Bluffton: 3:10:17 p.m. - 3:14:04 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 47s)
  16. Sandusky: 3:12:21 p.m. - 3:16:06 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 45s)
  17. Findlay: 3:10:45 p.m. - 3:14:30 p.m.
         - (Totality 3m 45s)
  18. Fostoria: 3:11:10 p.m. - 3:14:54 p.m.
         - (Totality 3m 44s)
  19. Fremont: 3:11:46 p.m. - 3:15:24 p.m.
         - (Totality 3m 38s)
  20. Port Clinton: 3:12:12 p.m. - 3:15:42 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 30s)
  21. North Baltimore: 3:10:57 p.m. - 3:14:26 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 29s)
  22. Fort Jennings: 3:09:53 p.m. - 3:13:20 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 27s)
  23. Ottawa: 3:10:19 p.m. - 3:13:46 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 27s)
  24. Ottoville: 3:09:54 p.m. - 3:13:14 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 20s)
  25. Put In Bay: 3:12:34 p.m. - 3:15:52 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 18s)
  26. Oak Harbor: 3:12:01 p.m. - 3:15:18 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 17s)
  27. Woodville: 3:11:44 p.m. - 3:14:54 p.m. 
         - (Totality 3m 10s)
  28. Bowling Green: 3:11:22 p.m. - 3:14:21 p.m. 
         - (Totality 2m 59s)
  29. Genoa: 3:11:54 pm - 3:14:51 p.m. 
         - (Totality 2m 57s)
  30. Continental: 3:10:21 p.m. - 3:13:15 p.m. 
         - (Totality 2m 54s)
  31. Holgate: 3:10:49 p.m. - 3:13:23 p.m. 
         - (Totality 2m 34s)
  32. Perrysburg: 3:11:56 p.m. - 3:14:08 p.m. 
         - (Totality 2m 12s)
  33. Maumee: 3:11:57 p.m. - 3:14:03 p.m. 
         - (Totality 2m 06s)
  34. Oregon: 3:12:15 p.m. - 3:14:20 p.m. 
         - (Totality 2m 05s) 
  35. Rossford: 3:12:07 p.m. - 3:14:11 p.m. 
         - (Totality 2m 04s)
  36. Paulding: 3:10:25 p.m. - 3:12:22 p.m. 
         - (Totality 1m 57s)
  37. Whitehouse: 3:11:48 p.m. - 3:13:43 p.m.
         - (Totality 1m 55s)
  38. Toledo: 3:12:18 p.m. - 3:14:09 p.m.
         - (Totality 1m 51s)
  39. Napoleon: 3:11:22 p.m. - 3:13:04 p.m. 
         - (Totality 1m 42s)
  40. Defiance: 3:10:59 p.m. - 3:12:39 p.m.
         - (Totality 1m 40s)

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