🌑 The total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027
On the morning of 2 August 2027 the Moon passes right in front of the Sun. Along a narrow path from Spain and Morocco across North Africa to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, day turns to night for up to 6 min 23 s, far longer than most total eclipses, which last two or three minutes. Most of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia see a partial eclipse.
- Date
- Monday 2 August 2027, in the morning in Europe and Africa
- Greatest eclipse
- 2 August 2027 at 10:06 UTC, near Luxor, Egypt
- Longest totality
- 6 min 23 s, near Luxor
- Path of totality
- Morocco, Spain, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, up to 258 km wide
- Partial eclipse seen from
- Africa, Europe, the Middle East, western and southern Asia
- Safe to watch
- Only with proper eclipse glasses, except during the minutes of totality
What will you see?
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In the path of totality
- Cádiz, SpainTotal for about 2 min 55 s, from 10:45 am · local time
- Tangier, MoroccoTotal for about 4 min 55 s, from 8:45 am · local time
- Ceuta, SpainTotal for about 4 min 50 s, from 10:45 am · local time
- Gibraltar, GibraltarTotal for about 4 min 30 s, from 10:45 am · local time
- Málaga, SpainTotal for about 1 min 50 s, from 10:48 am · local time
- Oran, AlgeriaTotal for about 5 min 10 s, from 9:51 am · local time
- Tripoli, LibyaOn the very edge of the path: under a minute, or none · local time
- Benghazi, LibyaTotal for about 6 min 15 s, from 11:28 am · local time
- Sohag, EgyptTotal for about 6 min 25 s, from 12:59 pm · local time
- Qena, EgyptTotal for about 6 min 15 s, from 1:01 pm · local time
- Luxor, EgyptTotal for about 6 min 25 s, from 1:02 pm · local time
- Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaTotal for about 6 min, from 1:22 pm · local time
- Mecca, Saudi ArabiaTotal for about 5 min 10 s, from 1:24 pm · local time
- Abha, Saudi ArabiaTotal for about 6 min 10 s, from 1:34 pm · local time
- Sanaa, YemenTotal for about 2 min 35 s, from 1:44 pm · local time
Elsewhere: a partial eclipse
- Algiers, Algeria99.8% of the Sun covered at 9:59 am local time
- Aswan, Egypt99.8% of the Sun covered at 1:08 pm local time
- Rabat, Morocco98.6% of the Sun covered at 8:45 am local time
- Seville, Spain98.2% of the Sun covered at 10:47 am local time
- Casablanca, Morocco97.2% of the Sun covered at 8:44 am local time
- Valletta, Malta97.2% of the Sun covered at 11:18 am local time
- Tunis, Tunisia97.1% of the Sun covered at 10:10 am local time
- Cairo, Egypt94.7% of the Sun covered at 12:56 pm local time
- Medina, Saudi Arabia94.4% of the Sun covered at 1:21 pm local time
- Alexandria, Egypt93.2% of the Sun covered at 12:52 pm local time
- Lisbon, Portugal92.5% of the Sun covered at 9:45 am local time
- Madrid, Spain86.3% of the Sun covered at 10:51 am local time
- Barcelona, Spain81.6% of the Sun covered at 10:58 am local time
- Athens, Greece78.2% of the Sun covered at 12:33 pm local time
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia75.8% of the Sun covered at 1:33 pm local time
- Rome, Italy74.5% of the Sun covered at 11:13 am local time
- Khartoum, Sudan71% of the Sun covered at 12:22 pm local time
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia66.5% of the Sun covered at 1:47 pm local time
- Doha, Qatar61.9% of the Sun covered at 1:39 pm local time
- Istanbul, Turkey58.9% of the Sun covered at 12:39 pm local time
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates53.1% of the Sun covered at 2:44 pm local time
- Paris, France51.1% of the Sun covered at 11:01 am local time
- London, United Kingdom41.8% of the Sun covered at 10:00 am local time
- Tehran, Iran35.1% of the Sun covered at 1:50 pm local time
- Berlin, Germany33.9% of the Sun covered at 11:14 am local time
- Mumbai, India32.1% of the Sun covered at 4:42 pm local time
- Nairobi, Kenya30.8% of the Sun covered at 2:01 pm local time
- Karachi, Pakistan29.5% of the Sun covered at 3:57 pm local time
- Delhi, India8.2% of the Sun covered at 4:29 pm local time
- Lagos, Nigeria2.3% of the Sun covered at 12:14 pm local time
What you see in totality
- The sky darkens to deep twilight in a few seconds, and the air cools.
- The Sun’s outer glow, the corona, spreads around the black Moon in pale streamers. It can only be seen during totality.
- Bright stars come out, and Mercury and Jupiter shine near the darkened Sun.
- A ring of sunset colours glows all around the horizon.
Watching safely
- Never look at the Sun, even when it is mostly covered, without eclipse glasses or a solar viewer made to the ISO 12312-2 standard. Ordinary sunglasses are not enough.
- Only during totality, when the Sun is completely covered, is it safe to look with your own eyes. Put the glasses back on as soon as the first bright point of Sun reappears.
- A pinhole in a card, or the gaps between leaves, will project little crescent Suns onto the ground: a safe way to watch the partial eclipse.