The Sun's corona glowing around the dark Moon during the total solar eclipse of 8 April 2024
Will I See / Solar eclipse / 2027
Monday 2 August 2027 · in 270 days

Will I see the 2027 solar eclipse?

The Moon blacks out the Sun along a 260 km strip from southern Spain to Egypt and Saudi Arabia: up to 6 min 23 s of darkness. Check any town for totality, times and the chance of a clear view.

Tarifa4m 39sGibraltar4m 27sMálaga1m 52sTangier4m 51sLuxor6m 20sJeddah5m 59sLondon42%
Photo: NASA/GRC/Jordan Salkin, total eclipse of 8 April 2024
6 min 23 slongest totality, near Luxor
4 min 39 sin Tarifa, the most in Europe
10:45totality in southern Spain (CEST)
2114next time one lasts this long on land

The Moon's shadow, minute by minute

Press play to watch totality race from the Atlantic to the Red Sea in just over two hours. Tap anywhere on the map, or search above, to check that spot.

Pick a town above, or try Tarifa, Luxor or London.

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Gold band: the path of totality. Lines: share of the Sun covered at the peak.

Best places to watch

Ranked by totality length × the chance of a clear view at eclipse time. The top one or two per country.

Tarifa

4m 39s
of totality · Spain 65% chance of a clear view

Zahara de los Atunes

4m 24s
of totality · Spain 67% chance of a clear view

Gibraltar

4m 27s
of totality · Gibraltar 64% chance of a clear view

Tangier

4m 51s
of totality · Morocco 57% chance of a clear view

Sfax

5m 40s
of totality · Tunisia 82% chance of a clear view

Sohag

6m 22s
of totality · Egypt 99% chance of a clear view

Luxor

6m 20s
of totality · Egypt 97% chance of a clear view

Jeddah

5m 59s
of totality · Saudi Arabia 88% chance of a clear view

Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco up close

The path crosses the Strait of Gibraltar. Málaga is near the northern edge (1 min 52 s); Tarifa, Gibraltar and Tangier are near the middle (4 min 39 s, 4 min 27 s, 4 min 51 s).

Dashed line: centre of the path. Towns on the gold band see totality; tap one for its page, or tap the map anywhere.

Just outside: don't get caught at 99%

These places get a deep partial eclipse but no totality. Even 99% leaves enough Sun to keep the day bright; the darkness, the corona and the stars only happen inside the path.

Almería

99.9%
of the Sun covered · Spain 72% chance of a clear view · totality 1 km south

Sanlúcar de Barrameda

99.9%
of the Sun covered · Spain 74% chance of a clear view · totality 4 km south

Monastir

99.9%
of the Sun covered · Tunisia 84% chance of a clear view · totality 7 km south

Sousse

99.8%
of the Sun covered · Tunisia 83% chance of a clear view · totality 10 km south

Algiers

99.8%
of the Sun covered · Algeria 74% chance of a clear view · totality 15 km south

Aswan

99.8%
of the Sun covered · Egypt 98% chance of a clear view · totality 15 km north-east

Safaga

99.6%
of the Sun covered · Egypt 99% chance of a clear view · totality 25 km south-west

Mojácar

99%
of the Sun covered · Spain 71% chance of a clear view · totality 35 km south

Every town on the path

Totality length, when it starts (local time), how high the Sun is and the chance of a clear view at that hour (weather records, 21 July to 14 August).

Spain

TownTotalityTotality startsSun heightClear view
Ceuta4 min 48 s10:45 CEST38°59%
Tarifa4 min 39 s10:45 CEST38°65%
Melilla4 min 33 s10:48 CEST41°55%
Algeciras4 min 27 s10:45 CEST38°65%
Zahara de los Atunes4 min 24 s10:44 CEST38°67%
La Línea de la Concepción4 min 24 s10:45 CEST38°64%
Barbate4 min 16 s10:44 CEST38°69%
Vejer de la Frontera4 min 06 s10:45 CEST38°70%
Sotogrande4 min 06 s10:45 CEST38°66%
Conil de la Frontera4 min 01 s10:44 CEST38°64%
Estepona3 min 38 s10:46 CEST39°68%
Chiclana de la Frontera3 min 29 s10:45 CEST38°69%
Medina-Sidonia3 min 22 s10:45 CEST38°76%
Marbella3 min 18 s10:46 CEST39°71%
Fuengirola3 min 11 s10:47 CEST39°72%
Cádiz2 min 54 s10:45 CEST37°72%
Benalmádena2 min 52 s10:47 CEST39°73%
Torremolinos2 min 43 s10:47 CEST39°73%
El Puerto de Santa María2 min 29 s10:45 CEST37°74%
Almerimar2 min 19 s10:49 CEST41°73%
Rota2 min 15 s10:45 CEST37°73%
Almuñécar1 min 53 s10:48 CEST40°75%
Málaga1 min 52 s10:48 CEST39°73%
Adra1 min 47 s10:49 CEST41°74%
Motril1 min 46 s10:49 CEST40°75%
Nerja1 min 42 s10:48 CEST40°74%
Jerez de la Frontera1 min 40 s10:46 CEST38°77%
Roquetas de Mar1 min 36 s10:50 CEST41°72%
San José (Cabo de Gata)1 min 34 s10:51 CEST42°72%
El Ejido1 min 25 s10:50 CEST41°73%
Ronda1 min 20 s10:47 CEST39°72%
Arcos de la Frontera45 s10:47 CEST38°81%

Gibraltar

TownTotalityTotality startsSun heightClear view
Gibraltar4 min 27 s10:45 CEST38°64%

Morocco

TownTotalityTotality startsSun heightClear view
Martil4 min 52 s09:45 UTC+138°56%
Tetouan4 min 51 s09:45 UTC+138°56%
Tangier4 min 51 s09:44 UTC+138°57%
Asilah4 min 44 s09:44 UTC+138°47%
Al Hoceima4 min 26 s09:46 UTC+140°60%
Larache4 min 18 s09:44 UTC+138°50%
Nador4 min 14 s09:48 UTC+141°58%
Chefchaouen4 min 13 s09:45 UTC+139°59%
Saïdia4 min 01 s09:49 UTC+142°60%

Algeria

TownTotalityTotality startsSun heightClear view
Oran5 min 08 s09:51 CET43°61%

Tunisia

TownTotalityTotality startsSun heightClear view
Sfax5 min 40 s10:08 CET56°82%
Djerba4 min 40 s10:09 CET57°81%
Gabès4 min 05 s10:08 CET56°80%
Mahdia2 min 48 s10:10 CET56°77%
Kairouan2 min 44 s10:08 CET55°82%
Tozeur1 min 42 s10:06 CET54°88%

Egypt

TownTotalityTotality startsSun heightClear view
Sohag6 min 22 s12:58 EEST81°99%
Luxor6 min 20 s13:02 EEST82°97%
Qena6 min 11 s13:01 EEST81°99%
Asyut6 min 07 s12:56 EEST81°99%
Edfu5 min 31 s13:04 EEST82°98%
Marsa Alam5 min 30 s13:08 EEST81°88%
Siwa Oasis5 min 29 s12:42 EEST76°98%
Port Ghalib4 min 32 s13:07 EEST81°88%
El Quseir2 min 28 s13:06 EEST81°93%

Saudi Arabia

TownTotalityTotality startsSun heightClear view
Abha6 min 03 s13:34 UTC+371°42%
Jeddah5 min 59 s13:22 UTC+376°88%
Al Bahah5 min 11 s13:29 UTC+373°58%
Mecca5 min 08 s13:24 UTC+375°89%
Taif3 min 53 s13:26 UTC+375°81%
Jazan3 min 00 s13:38 UTC+370°72%

Partial eclipse: rest of Europe and beyond

Almería99.9%Sanlúcar de Barrameda99.9%Monastir99.9%Sousse99.8%Algiers99.8%Aswan99.8%Safaga99.6%Mojácar99%Faro99%Granada99%Yanbu99%Huelva99%Rabat99%Hurghada99%El Gouna98%Seville98%Fes98%Hammamet98%Malta97%Tunis97%Casablanca97%Sharm el-Sheikh96%Alicante95%Cairo95%Medina94%Benidorm94%Lisbon93%Valencia90%Palermo90%Palma de Mallorca89%Marrakech89%Madrid86%Barcelona82%Tenerife79%Athens78%Riyadh76%Rome75%Milan62%Istanbul59%Zurich55%Dubai53%Paris51%Munich50%Vienna47%Brussels43%Bristol42%Cardiff42%London42%Birmingham39%Amsterdam38%Dublin36%Manchester35%Berlin34%Belfast32%Glasgow28%Edinburgh27%

Book early, with free cancellation

Rooms and tours inside the path sell out months ahead. Book something you can cancel, then watch the forecast in the last week. Luxor (the longest totality and the clearest skies), Cádiz and Tarifa are the easiest bases. Hotel links open with the nights of 1 and 2 August filled in.

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Keep your eyes safe

Before and after totality

Look at the Sun only through eclipse glasses or a solar viewer made to ISO 12312-2. Sunglasses are not enough, even at 99%.

During totality

Once the last bead of sunlight disappears, take the glasses off and look. Put them back on the moment the Sun's edge reappears.

Cameras and binoculars

Never point binoculars, a telescope or a camera lens at the partial Sun without a solar filter on the front.

How we work it out. Times and totality come from NASA's Besselian elements for this eclipse (Fred Espenak, NASA GSFC) with the standard local-circumstances method; our numbers match NASA's own tables and Spain's national observatory (IGN: Cádiz 2 min 54 s, Ceuta 4 min 48 s, Melilla 4 min 34 s) to within a few seconds. Right at the edge of the path, the Moon's mountains can shift the real line by about a kilometre. Clear-view odds: the average cloud-free share of the sky in the three hours around the eclipse, 21 July to 14 August, from NASA POWER hourly cloud data (2001–2025) corrected to match 66 airports' own weather reports (NOAA ISD, 2006–2025). NASA alone was up to 20 points too sunny along the Strait of Gibraltar and too cloudy over the UK and the Gulf, so the airports win. They are estimates from history, not a forecast. Travel advice changes: check your government's guidance for Algeria, Libya, Egypt's desert regions, Yemen and Somalia before you plan.

The 2027 eclipse: questions

Monday 2 August 2027. In southern Spain totality comes at about 10:45 local time, in Luxor at about 13:02. The partial phases start about 80 minutes earlier.

In a strip about 260 km wide: the southern tip of Spain and Gibraltar, northern Morocco, northern Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia. Everywhere else in Europe, Africa and the Middle East sees a partial eclipse. Check any place.

Near Luxor in Egypt: 6 min 23 s at the point of greatest duration, the longest total eclipse visible from land until 2114. Luxor itself gets 6 min 20 s. In Europe, the longest is around Tarifa (4 min 39 s).

Málaga, yes, but only 1 min 52 s: it sits near the northern edge. Seville, no: it is just outside the path with 98% of the Sun covered, which still leaves daylight. Drive south to Cádiz or Tarifa.

Only as a partial eclipse: 42% of the Sun covered in London at 10:00 BST, less further north. For totality, southern Spain is a short flight away.

Early August is one of the clearest times of year along the path, but not everywhere. From airport weather records, the chance of a clear view at eclipse time is about 97% in Luxor, 88% in Jeddah, 82% in Sfax, 73% in Málaga, 65% in Tarifa and 57% in Tangier. The Strait of Gibraltar and the Moroccan coast carry the most risk: morning low cloud off the Atlantic and the easterly levante.

No: 99% is covered in Hurghada, so it stays light. Totality starts about 65 km to the south-west; El Quseir and Marsa Alam on the Red Sea coast and Luxor on the Nile are inside it.