On August 2, 2027 the Moon’s shadow crosses the Strait of Gibraltar, runs the length of North Africa, passes over Luxor and the Red Sea, and leaves Earth in the Indian Ocean. Near Luxor totality lasts 6 min 23.2 s by NASA’s figures, with the Sun almost overhead. Below: the path drawn from NASA’s own table, totality times for 17 cities, a countdown in your time zone, and how to watch safely, in person or live online.
The eclipse begins on Monday, August 2, 2027 at 07:30:11 UTC, and totality reaches Spain at about 08:45:21 UTC.
Magnitude 1.0790, gamma 0.1421, Saros series 136 (member 38 of 71). Figures from NASA’s path table and Besselian elements; the countries from timeanddate.com.
The eclipse takes about five hours to cross the planet. These are the global stages: each happens at a different place, so your own times depend on where you are (the table and the place checker below give them).
at sunrise, at the first place on Earth to see the Moon start to cover the Sun
at sunrise in the mid-Atlantic, near 28.0°N 44.5°W, where the Moon’s shadow first touches Earth
in Egypt, near 25°30.3′N 33°11.0′E, south-east of Luxor
at sunset in the Indian Ocean, near 12.5°S 90.4°E, where the shadow leaves Earth
at sunset, at the last place on Earth to see any of the eclipse
Global stages from timeanddate.com. NASA, using a slightly different value for Earth’s rotation (ΔT 71.7 s), puts greatest eclipse at 10:06:37 UTC; predictions like these agree to a few seconds.
The dark band is where the Sun is completely covered, plotted point by point from the northern and southern limits in NASA’s path table (two-minute steps). The line through it is the central line, where totality is longest; the dots on it are the shadow’s position at the UTC times shown. The star marks NASA’s point of greatest duration. Outside the band the eclipse is partial.
The path, the times and the cities are NASA’s numbers and the cities’ coordinates; the shaded land is for orientation. Map data: Natural Earth (public domain). For the path over a street map, NASA has an interactive map. NASA notes that mountains and valleys on the Moon’s edge can shift the limits by 1 to 3 km and change durations by 1 to 3 seconds.
Cities on timeanddate.com’s list of places in the path, west to east. The shadow moves east, so totality reaches Cádiz first and Bosaso last, about two and a quarter hours later. The longest totality of any city here is Luxor’s, 6 min 22 s.
| City | Totality begins | Totality lasts | Sun’s height at totality | Cloudy on Aug 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CádizSpain | 10:45 CEST08:45:21 UTC | 2 min 56 s | 37° | 13% of years |
| TangierMorocco | 08:44 GMT08:44:38 UTC | 4 min 51 s | 38° | 42% of years |
| GibraltarGibraltar | 10:45 CEST08:45:31 UTC | 4 min 28 s | 38° | 17% of years |
| CeutaSpain | 10:45 CEST08:45:17 UTC | 4 min 49 s | 38° | 59% of years |
| MarbellaSpain | 10:46 CEST08:46:46 UTC | 3 min 21 s | 39° | 7% of years |
| MálagaSpain | 10:48 CEST08:48:05 UTC | 1 min 57 s | 39° | 9% of years |
| MelillaSpain | 10:48 CEST08:48:10 UTC | 4 min 33 s | 41° | 34% of years |
| OranAlgeria | 09:51 CET08:51:01 UTC | 5 min 9 s | 43° | 31% of years |
| KairouanTunisia | 10:08 CET09:08:47 UTC | 2 min 47 s | 55° | 5% of years |
| GabèsTunisia | 10:08 CET09:08:38 UTC | 4 min 7 s | 56° | 5% of years |
| SfaxTunisia | 10:08 CET09:08:45 UTC | 5 min 41 s | 56° | 2% of years |
| BenghaziLibya | 11:27 EET09:27:48 UTC | 6 min 11 s | 68° | 19% of years |
| AsyutEgypt | 12:56 EEST09:56:51 UTC | 6 min 8 s | 81° | 0% of years |
| LuxorEgypt | 13:02 EEST10:02:03 UTC | 6 min 22 s | 82° | 0% of years |
| JeddahSaudi Arabia | 13:22 AST10:22:19 UTC | 5 min 55 s | 76° | 31% of years |
| Khamis MushaitSaudi Arabia | 13:34 AST10:34:28 UTC | 6 min 1 s | 70° | 9% of years |
| BosasoSomalia | 13:58 EAT10:58:09 UTC | 4 min 3 s | 58° | 72% of years |
Totality start and the Sun’s height: computed from NASA’s Besselian elements for each city’s centre. Duration and cloud: each city’s timeanddate.com page (linked), whose cloud figure is the share of years since 2000 when that date was cloudy there. Both calculations agree on every duration here to within a few seconds; at the edges of the path a few hundred metres changes totality by seconds, so check your exact spot. Local times are each city’s clock on the day (Morocco has kept GMT since September 2026).
A 99% partial eclipse is a very different thing from totality: the sky stays bright, there is no corona, and filters are needed throughout. If you can travel, travel into the band.
Pick a city, type coordinates, or use your device’s location. The times are calculated in your browser from NASA’s elements, so a duration can differ by a few seconds from timeanddate.com’s in the table; your location is not sent anywhere.
We checked the coordinates of every camera on Port of Cams against NASA’s path. None is inside the path of totality. The closest is the one below; if we add a working camera inside the band before August 2027, it will be listed here.
La Vinuela, Spain · Snapshot (a still image that refreshes)
A still image of the La Viñuela reservoir in the Axarquía hills above Málaga, refreshed every few minutes. The camera is about 6 km north of the path’s northern limit, so it is outside totality: NASA’s elements give it a partial eclipse of magnitude 0.998 (the Moon covering 99.8% of the Sun’s diameter) at about 08:49 UTC. Expect the light to fade sharply, not the sky to go dark.
Across Europe, a partial eclipse will be visible from many of our international cameras that morning, though a camera pointed at a view rather than the Sun shows it only as a dimming of the light.
From NASA’s eclipse safety page and the AAS eye-safety page, checked on October 22, 2026. In early August the Sun near Luxor is almost overhead at totality (82° up), so plan for heat and shade as well.
By timeanddate.com’s record of past years, the Nile valley is the safest bet: Luxor and Asyut were cloudy on August 2 in 0% of years since 2000, and Sfax on the Tunisian coast in 2%. The Strait of Gibraltar is less reliable (Ceuta 59%, Tangier 42%), and Bosaso on the Somali coast was cloudy 72% of the time. These are past records for one date, not a forecast; a real forecast exists only in the last week or so.
Dates, regions and durations from NASA’s 2021–2030 catalogue.
Monday, August 2, 2027. The partial eclipse begins somewhere on Earth at 07:30 UTC, totality first touches down in the Atlantic at 08:23 UTC, and the maximum eclipse is at about 10:07 UTC over Egypt. Totality leaves the Earth in the Indian Ocean at 11:50 UTC and the last of the partial eclipse ends at 12:43 UTC (timeanddate.com).
In Egypt’s Nile valley. NASA puts the greatest duration, 6 minutes 23.2 seconds, at 26°49′N 31°08′E, between Asyut and Luxor, and the instant of greatest eclipse (6 minutes 22.6 seconds) at 25°30′N 33°11′E, south-east of Luxor. Luxor itself gets about 6 minutes 22 seconds of totality, starting at 13:02 local time.
Southern Spain and Gibraltar, northern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, a sliver of Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia, then the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. A partial eclipse is visible across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and West Asia and the far east of North America.
Yes. timeanddate.com already has a live-stream page for this eclipse, and broadcast the August 2026 total eclipse from Spain. NASA has typically streamed major total eclipses as well; check its eclipse pages nearer the day. Streams run a few seconds behind real time.
Only during totality itself, when the Moon completely covers the Sun’s bright face. At every other moment, including the partial phases and the last sliver before totality, look only through solar viewers that meet the ISO 12312-2 standard, never through sunglasses, and never through a camera, binoculars or a telescope without a solar filter fitted to the front. NASA and the American Astronomical Society give the same advice.
No. All three are outside the path. Madrid sees a partial eclipse of magnitude 0.88, Cairo 0.947, and Aswan, just south of the path, 0.996: almost total, but the thin crescent of Sun left uncovered is still far too bright to look at without a filter, and the sky does not go dark.
July 22, 2028, across Australia and New Zealand, with up to 5 minutes 10 seconds of totality (NASA). The one before 2027 was on August 12, 2026, over Greenland, Iceland and Spain.
Not inside it. We checked every camera on the site against NASA’s path: the closest is a still-image camera at the La Viñuela reservoir above Málaga, about 6 km outside the northern limit, which will see a partial eclipse of magnitude 0.998, almost but not quite total. If a camera inside the path is added before August 2027, it will appear on this page.
Eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA’s GSFC: the path table and Besselian elements, from which every contact time on this page is calculated. Global stages, countries, city durations and cloud records: timeanddate.com. Safety: NASA and the AAS. Checked on October 22, 2026. Camera feeds belong to their operators, named on each camera page.
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