A partial solar eclipse will be visible in many areas of Sri Lanka, especially the Northern regions, in the evening today (October 25). 

According to Professor Chandana Jayaratne, the Director of the Astronomy and the Space Science Unit of the Department of Physics, University of Colombo, the eclipse is best seen from Jaffna. 

From Jaffna, the eclipse would be seen from 5:27 PM, with the maximum eclipse at 5:46 PM, but can only be observed until 5:49 PM, due to sunset, even though the eclipse would last until 6:20 PM. 

The next solar eclipse which would be visible to Sri Lanka would be five years later, on August 2, 2027. 

IN-The.Sky.Org filed the following report earlier: 

The Moon will pass in front of the Sun, creating a partial eclipse of the Sun visible from Africa, Asia, Europe, Greenland and Guernsey between 14:30 and 18:31 +0530.

From Colombo, the eclipse will not be visible, but elsewhere in Sri Lanka the Sun will be eclipsed to a maximum of 2% (change location ), according to In-The-Sky.org website.

In the northern hemisphere, a maximum of 82% of the Sun's disk will be eclipsed by the Moon, but nowhere on Earth will see a total solar eclipse. This is because the alignment between the Sun and Moon in the sky will not be very exact.

In any eclipse, the point of central (or greatest) eclipse is where the line connecting the centers of the Sun and Moon falls onto the Earth's surface, when continued past the Moon. This is the vantage point where the Moon appears to be exactly centered on the middle of the Sun. As the eclipse progresses, this point sweeps across the Earth's surface from west to east.

However, in a partial eclipse, it passes either above the north pole or below the south pole, without crossing the Earth's surface at any point. In this case, it passes above the north pole, with only the edge of the Moon's shadow falling onto the Earth. This creates a partial eclipse.

See more details in following link:

https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20221025_09_100&town=1248991