Total solar eclipse · Monday 2 August 2027
The Moon’s shadow crosses the Strait of Gibraltar and runs on to Egypt, but it clips Spain, and only 102 Spanish municipalities are inside it. Eclipse publishes the IGN’s own verdict for every municipality in the country, the contact times to the second, and which way to look. No signal required.
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In 2026 a few kilometres decided it. In 2027 it is a few hundred: the path comes ashore at the Strait and leaves again almost immediately. Totality or a very bright crescent, and nothing in between.
Six decisions that separate a real answer from a pretty animation.
Inside Spain the app never publishes a figure it computed itself; it publishes the Instituto Geográfico Nacional’s, for every municipality in the country. A textbook calculation and the official table disagree at the edge of the path, and at the edge is exactly where you need to be right.
Almería reaches magnitude 1.00 on the day and still sees no totality. The umbral limit runs between towns, not around them, so when the municipalities around you disagree with each other Eclipse says so instead of guessing, and names the nearest place that does get it. From Almería that is Roquetas de Mar, 16 km down the coast.
Ceuta 4 min 49 s, Tarifa 4 min 38 s, Algeciras 4 min 27 s, then Cádiz 2 min 55 s and Málaga 1 min 49 s. Where you stand decides how long it lasts. The Sun is 37–41° up in the east at 10:47, so you need a gap in the sky rather than a clear horizon, and a live compass shows you which one.
The hourly forecast at maximum eclipse, so you can decide whether to drive. And until the forecast is far enough out to be trustworthy, it says so rather than showing you a number nobody should act on.
On 26 January 2028 an annular eclipse crosses Spain at sunset and 3,078 municipalities sit under the ring: Barcelona, València, Sevilla, Málaga, Murcia. The Sun is a median 3° above the horizon, and in Barcelona it sets while the ring is still closed. A ring is not a totality: at no moment is it safe to look, and the app is built so it can never suggest otherwise.
Every municipality, path and calculation ships inside the app, so it works where the network does not. Both eclipses are already bundled: the day after the 2026 eclipse the app moved itself on to 2027, with no update and no App Store round trip. It will do the same again in August.
Monday 2 August 2027. Totality reaches the Strait of Gibraltar at 10:47 local time and 102 municipalities are inside the path, and yours is probably not one of them. Better to find that out now than in July.
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Never look at a partially eclipsed Sun without certified eclipse glasses. Only during totality itself, and only if you are truly inside the path, is it safe to look with the naked eye. Eclipse tells you which of those two you are in. During the annular eclipse of January 2028 there is no such moment at all: a ring of the Sun’s surface stays visible throughout, and the glasses stay on.
Guides on eye safety, cloud odds, photographing a low Sun and what comes next: read the eclipse blog.