Annular Solar Eclipse of January 26, 2028: Times and Duration in Spain
On January 26, 2028, the Moon will pass in front of the Sun without managing to cover it: too far from the Earth, it will leave a ring of light around itself. The path of annularity crosses the Iberian peninsula diagonally, from the Algarve and the Gulf of Cádiz to the Valencian Community, in the late afternoon.
Up to 7 min 15 s of ring at Seville and 7 min 13 s at Cordoba. But obscuration tops out at 82.6 % on the peninsula: day will not turn to night, and the glasses never come off.
Work out the exact time for your own location
Address, city or GPS position: the calculator returns the four contacts, the duration of annularity, maximum obscuration and the Sun's altitude to within ±5-10 seconds, from NASA's Besselian elements.
Where the path of annularity runs
It comes in over the Algarve and the Gulf of Cádiz, covers Huelva, Seville, Cádiz, Jerez, Cordoba and Jaén, climbs through Ciudad Real, Toledo and Albacete, and leaves by way of Murcia, Cartagena, Alicante and Valencia. Lisbon, Madrid, Cáceres, Badajoz and Almería stay just outside.
The Sun will be very low: 9° at Faro, 8° at Seville, 3° at Valencia — where the ring closes just thirteen minutes before sunset. A completely clear western horizon is not a comfort, it is the condition of the whole observation.
Annularity times, city by city
| City | Duration | Ring begins | Ring ends | Start (C1) | End (C4) | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seville | 7 min 15 s | 17:52:14 | 17:59:29 | 16:34 | 19:07 | 8° |
| Cordoba | 7 min 13 s | 17:52:33 | 17:59:46 | 16:35 | 19:07 | 7° |
| Huelva | 7 min 11 s | 17:51:55 | 17:59:06 | 16:33 | 19:07 | 9° |
| Écija | 7 min 10 s | 17:52:34 | 17:59:45 | 16:35 | 19:07 | 7° |
| Albacete | 7 min 06 s | 17:53:08 | 18:00:14 | 16:37 | 19:06 | 4° |
| Valencia | 7 min 02 s | 17:53:21 | 18:00:23 | 16:39 | 19:06 | 3° |
| Faro | 7 min 01 s | 17:51:38 | 17:58:39 | 16:32 | 19:07 | 9° |
| Jaén | 6 min 53 s | 17:53:06 | 17:59:58 | 16:36 | 19:07 | 6° |
| Jerez de la Frontera | 6 min 50 s | 17:52:34 | 17:59:24 | 16:34 | 19:07 | 8° |
| Cádiz | 6 min 42 s | 17:52:37 | 17:59:19 | 16:34 | 19:08 | 8° |
| Ciudad Real | 6 min 33 s | 17:52:48 | 17:59:21 | 16:36 | 19:06 | 5° |
| Ronda | 6 min 06 s | 17:53:18 | 17:59:24 | 16:35 | 19:07 | 7° |
| Granada | 5 min 23 s | 17:54:05 | 17:59:29 | 16:36 | 19:07 | 6° |
| Alicante | 5 min 05 s | 17:54:45 | 17:59:50 | 16:39 | 19:06 | 3° |
| Málaga | 4 min 59 s | 17:54:08 | 17:59:07 | 16:36 | 19:07 | 7° |
| Murcia | 4 min 40 s | 17:54:55 | 17:59:35 | 16:38 | 19:06 | 4° |
| Toledo | 3 min 02 s | 17:54:11 | 17:57:13 | 16:35 | 19:06 | 5° |
| Cartagena | 1 min 14 s | 17:56:48 | 17:58:01 | 16:39 | 19:06 | 3° |
Times in CET (UTC+1), legal time in Spain on January 26, 2028. NASA/GSFC Besselian elements, ±5-10 s. The C4 column is theoretical: the Sun sets before the partial phase ends, everywhere on the peninsula.
Major cities just outside the path
| City | Max. coverage | Time of maximum |
|---|---|---|
| Badajoz | 82.6 % | 17:54:57 |
| Almería | 82.4 % | 17:57:12 |
| Madrid | 82.3 % | 17:55:32 |
| Cáceres | 82.1 % | 17:54:59 |
| Zaragoza | 82.0 % | 17:55:43 |
| Lisbon | 81.2 % | 17:54:05 |
| Salamanca | 79.4 % | 17:54:38 |
| Valladolid | 78.6 % | 17:54:38 |
| Bilbao | 76.2 % | 17:54:19 |
| Porto | 75.6 % | 17:53:22 |
Madrid, Lisbon, Almería, Badajoz: a very deep partial eclipse — over 75 % — but no ring. The difference comes down to tens of kilometres, and the calculator above settles it to the metre.
The full track: Galápagos, Amazonia, Atlantic, Iberia
The ring touches down near the Galápagos, crosses Ecuador, northern Peru and the Brazilian Amazon — that is where obscuration peaks, very close to 84.8 %, the maximum for this eclipse — before crossing the Atlantic and reaching the Iberian peninsula at sunset. It leaves the Earth over the western Mediterranean.
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 — Annular Solar Eclipse of January 26, 2028: Times and Duration in Spain — https://solunareclipse.com/en/calculateur-2028
The times can be recomputed: anyone can check them from the same Besselian elements.
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Safety: the glasses never come off
An annular eclipse has no totality: even at maximum, a ring of photosphere stays visible, far bright enough to burn the retina in seconds. ISO 12312-2 certified glasses are worn from first to last contact, without the exception that applies to a total eclipse.