Almanac · Eclipses
Total solar eclipse, 12 Aug 2026
The Moon covers the whole Sun along a narrow path, and a partial eclipse falls either side of it. Greatest eclipse was on Wed 12 Aug 2026 at 17:45 UTC. The next eclipse of the Sun is the annular solar eclipse of 6 Feb 2027.
Never look at the Sun without eclipse glasses, except in the minutes of totality itself.
- Greatest eclipse At 65.2°N 25.1°W, the Sun 26° up
- Magnitude 1.039 The Moon’s apparent diameter over the Sun’s there
- Longest Totality 2m18s At the point of greatest eclipse
- Gamma 0.8979 The shadow’s axis from the Earth’s centre, in Earth radii
Where to watch it
Oviedo, Spain has the longest total phase of any city on our list: 1m49s, with the Sun 10° up. The Moon first touches the Sun there at 19:31 local time (GMT+2).
The Sky Map opens in Oviedo at 19:21 GMT+2 there, on the Sun: press play on the time bar to watch it unfold. Your own place stays as it is.
City by city
The biggest cities on our list in the path, the longest total phase first, then the biggest that see at least 5% of the Sun hidden, the most first. Every time is the city’s own clock.
- Oviedo, Spain Total for 1m49s, the Sun 10° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+2 Watch from here
- Palma, Spain Total for 1m36s, the Sun 2° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+2 Watch from here
- A Coruña, Spain Total for 1m12s, the Sun 12° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+2 Watch from here
- Guadalajara, Spain Total for 1m03s, the Sun 7° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+2 Watch from here
- Reykjavik, Iceland Total for 1m00s, the Sun 24° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT Watch from here
- Valencia, Spain Total for 56s, the Sun 4° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+2 Watch from here
- Bilbao, Spain Total for 42s, the Sun 8° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+2 Watch from here
- London, UK 91% of the Sun hidden, the Sun 10° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+1 Watch from here
- Casablanca, Morocco 87% of the Sun hidden, the Sun 6° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+1 Watch from here
- Berlin, Germany 85% of the Sun hidden, the Sun 3° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+2 Watch from here
- Saint Petersburg, Russia 79% of the Sun hidden, the Sun 0° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT+3 Watch from here
- Dakar, Senegal 37% of the Sun hidden, the Sun 4° up Begins · Deepest · Ends GMT Watch from here
- New York, USA 9% of the Sun hidden, the Sun 62° up Begins · Deepest · Ends EDT Watch from here
Latitude by latitude
Along each latitude, the longitudes that see any of the eclipse with the Sun up, and where on that latitude it is deepest: how much of the Sun’s face is hidden there, when, and how high the Sun stands.
| Latitude | Seen | Deepest (UTC) | Magnitude | At its deepest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60°N | from 166°E to 44°E | 17:56 | 1.019 | Total at 23°W for 2m17s, the Sun 25° up |
| 45°N | from 170°W to 158°W and from 95°W to 25°E | 18:25 | 1.018 | Total at 9°W for 1m54s, the Sun 13° up |
| 30°N | from 71°W to 12°E | 18:47 | 0.865 | Partial: at most 84% of the Sun hidden, at 1°W, the Sun -1° up |
| 15°N | from 55°W to 0° | 19:07 | 0.522 | Partial: at most 42% of the Sun hidden, at 11°W, the Sun -1° up |
| 0° | from 30°W to 15°W | 19:23 | 0.091 | Partial: at most 3% of the Sun hidden, at 19°W, the Sun -1° up |
| 15°S | Not seen | — | — | Not seen: the Moon’s shadow misses this latitude while the Sun is up |
| 30°S | Not seen | — | — | Not seen: the Moon’s shadow misses this latitude while the Sun is up |
| 45°S | Not seen | — | — | Not seen: the Moon’s shadow misses this latitude while the Sun is up |
How we worked it out: the Sun’s and the Moon’s places are Meeus’s solar and lunar theories, the ones the map draws. Greatest eclipse is the instant the shadow’s axis passes nearest the Earth’s centre, and the magnitude and the length of the total phase are measured from the place it meets the ground. Each latitude is walked 1° of longitude at a time on the Moon’s shadow cones, every 2 minutes, then refined where the eclipse is deepest with the Sun up. The tests hold these to NASA’s Five Millennium Canon of eclipses: instants within a few minutes, magnitudes within a few thousandths, the central duration within seconds.
- F. Espenak and J. Meeus, NASA Five Millennium Canon of Solar and Lunar Eclipses, which the tests hold these to
- J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, ch. 25 (the Sun) and ch. 47 (the Moon), as the map draws them
- Danjon’s rule for the Earth’s shadow, as NASA’s lunar eclipse catalogue applies it (NASA/TP-2009-214172, §1.3)