The eclipse of 2 August 2027
The Moon’s shadow crosses southern Spain, North Africa and the Middle East, and for a few minutes day turns to night. Pick your place and I’ll tell you what it does there and when.
Never look at the Sun without certified eclipse filters. Sunglasses are not enough.
The amber band is where the Sun is covered completely; the line through it is the centre of the Moon’s shadow. The blue shading shows the largest share of the Sun hidden from each place while the Sun is up. My map is a plain latitude-longitude one, so shapes stretch towards the north.
- From 25.5° N, 33.2° E
- Total eclipse
- The Moon hides the whole Sun. Day turns to deep twilight and the corona comes out.
- Totality lasts
- 6 min 26 s
- From 10:03:21 to 10:09:47 UTC.
- Deepest moment
- 10:06:35 UTC
- The Sun is 82° above the horizon.
- Start to finish
- 166 min
- First bite at 08:41:35 UTC, last at 11:27:37 UTC.
| Time, UTC | Centre of the shadow | Width of totality |
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Predicted, not yet observed. The times and percentages for your place come from Astronomy Engine’s eclipse search; the map’s band and shading are my own geometry built on the same Sun and Moon positions, checked against that search. Places are taken at sea level and the Moon as a smooth ball, so the true edge of totality will not sit exactly where it is drawn. I have checked the width of the band only at greatest eclipse (261 km against a published 258 km): near the edge, trust a detailed local map. Check my sums: I compared them with Fred Espenak’s published predictions for NASA. Times agree to within about fifteen seconds and coverage to within one per cent, and my totalities run a few seconds longer than his (6 min 27 s against 6 min 23 s at greatest eclipse) because the two calculations take the Moon’s size slightly differently. Coastlines are from Natural Earth. Other eclipses on the sky calendar