Total Solar Eclipse of August 12, 2026: Times and Durations in Spain
The eclipse of August 12, 2026 has happened. The path of totality, about 290 km wide, came in over Galicia and Asturias, crossed Castile and León, La Rioja and the Ebro valley, then southern Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearics before leaving the Earth over the Mediterranean. This page keeps the times, city by city.
Greatest eclipse lasted 2 min 18 s, off Iceland. In Spain totality topped out at 1 min 48 s, at Oviedo, with the Sun 10° above the horizon.
The next total eclipse visible from western Europe is that of August 2, 2027: it crosses Andalusia in mid-morning with up to 4 min 40 s of totality — nearly three times longer than 2026, and a Sun 40° high instead of 10°.
Times for the August 2, 2027 eclipse →The August 12, 2026 calculator, still online
Address, city or GPS position: it returns the four contacts, the duration of totality, maximum obscuration and the Sun's altitude for any point on Earth, to within ±5-10 seconds, from NASA's Besselian elements.
Where the path of totality ran
It arrived from the Atlantic over Galicia and Asturias — A Coruña, Gijón, Oviedo — covered León, Palencia, Burgos, Valladolid and Soria, went on through Logroño, Zaragoza and southern Catalonia as far as Tarragona, and left over Castellón, Valencia, Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca.
Four cities came down to a few kilometres: Bilbao and Lleida scraped totality — 32 and 30 seconds, right on the northern limit — while Pamplona and Madrid stayed outside, at 99.96 % and 99.95 %. Between the two limits, the path gave more than a minute and a half.
Totality times, city by city
| City | Duration | Totality begins | Totality ends | Start (C1) | End (C4) | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oviedo | 1 min 48 s | 20:27:00 | 20:28:49 | 19:31 | 21:21 | 10° |
| Gijón | 1 min 45 s | 20:26:43 | 20:28:28 | 19:30 | 21:20 | 10° |
| León | 1 min 44 s | 20:28:16 | 20:29:59 | 19:32 | 21:22 | 10° |
| Burgos | 1 min 44 s | 20:28:20 | 20:30:04 | 19:33 | 21:21 | 8° |
| Palencia | 1 min 42 s | 20:29:04 | 20:30:45 | 19:33 | 21:22 | 9° |
| Soria | 1 min 42 s | 20:29:01 | 20:30:43 | 19:34 | 21:21 | 7° |
| Palma | 1 min 36 s | 20:31:00 | 20:32:37 | 19:37 | 21:22 | 3° |
| Castellón | 1 min 33 s | 20:31:15 | 20:32:48 | 19:37 | 21:23 | 5° |
| Valladolid | 1 min 27 s | 20:29:48 | 20:31:15 | 19:34 | 21:23 | 9° |
| Zaragoza | 1 min 25 s | 20:28:58 | 20:30:22 | 19:34 | 21:21 | 6° |
| Lugo | 1 min 23 s | 20:28:03 | 20:29:26 | 19:31 | 21:22 | 11° |
| Logroño | 1 min 22 s | 20:28:03 | 20:29:25 | 19:33 | 21:20 | 8° |
| A Coruña | 1 min 14 s | 20:27:38 | 20:28:52 | 19:30 | 21:21 | 12° |
| Vitoria-Gasteiz | 1 min 05 s | 20:27:38 | 20:28:43 | 19:32 | 21:20 | 8° |
| Santander | 1 min 04 s | 20:26:52 | 20:27:56 | 19:31 | 21:20 | 9° |
| Ibiza | 1 min 03 s | 20:32:41 | 20:33:44 | 19:39 | 21:23 | 3° |
| Tarragona | 1 min 01 s | 20:29:24 | 20:30:25 | 19:35 | 21:21 | 4° |
| Valencia | 59 s | 20:32:25 | 20:33:24 | 19:38 | 21:24 | 4° |
| Bilbao | 32 s | 20:27:17 | 20:27:49 | 19:31 | 21:19 | 8° |
| Lleida | 30 s | 20:29:04 | 20:29:34 | 19:34 | 21:20 | 5° |
Times in CEST (UTC+2). Computed from NASA/GSFC Besselian elements, ±5-10 s. The Sun was very low: 12° at A Coruña, 8° at Burgos, 3° at Palma — and in the Balearics it set before the partial phase was over.
Cities that stayed just outside
| City | Max. coverage | Time of maximum |
|---|---|---|
| Pamplona | 99.96 % | 20:27:59 |
| Madrid | 99.95 % | 20:32:18 |
| Barcelona | 99.83 % | 20:29:13 |
| Salamanca | 99.68 % | 20:31:49 |
| Alicante | 99.1 % | 20:34:39 |
| Girona | 99.0 % | 20:28:06 |
| Porto | 98.2 % | 20:31:58 |
| Toulouse | 97.8 % | 20:25:58 |
| Bordeaux | 97.5 % | 20:24:29 |
| Seville | 94.6 % | 20:37:35 |
| Málaga | 94.5 % | 20:38:14 |
| Lisbon | 94.4 % | 20:36:03 |
| Milan | 92.3 % | 20:20:38 |
| Paris | 92.1 % | 20:17:15 |
| London | 91.4 % | 20:13:15 |
| Berlin | 84.8 % | 20:08:19 |
Pamplona and Madrid stopped at 99.9 %: a few kilometres separated them from the corona. Further out, France, Portugal, northern Italy and England saw only a partial eclipse — a deep one, but with no corona.
Before Spain: the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland
The shadow touched down in the Siberian Arctic, swept eastern Greenland and then western Iceland — Reykjavik lay on the edge of the path — before crossing the North Atlantic towards Spain. It left the Earth at sunset over the Mediterranean. The calculator works anywhere along that track.
Method and sources
- Ephemerides
- The calculator first queries the IMCCE's OPALE API (Paris Observatory), INPOP19A ephemerides, accurate to about a second. If it does not answer, it falls back on the polynomial Besselian elements published by NASA/GSFC (Fred Espenak) for that eclipse.
- Geometric criterion
- A point lies inside the path if the minimum over time of « distance to the shadow axis minus shadow radius » turns negative. The same criterion drives a city's readout, the drawn path limits and the animated shadow: the three cannot contradict one another.
- Measured precision
- The Besselian fallback was cross-checked against INPOP19A for twelve cities across the three eclipses: contact times differ by 1 to 10 seconds, and path membership agrees everywhere except for one city sitting exactly on the limit. The tables above come from that same engine.
Citing this page
Solunareclipse — Total Solar Eclipse of August 12, 2026: Times and Durations in Spain — https://solunareclipse.com/en/calculateur-2026
The times can be recomputed: anyone can check them from the same Besselian elements.
Safety: the rule does not change for 2027 and 2028
Throughout any partial phase, only ISO 12312-2 certified glasses protect the eye; they come off during totality alone, inside the path. The same rule applies on August 2, 2027 — and with no exception at all on January 26, 2028, since an annular eclipse has no totality.