Spain will receive three eclipses of the highest category in three consecutive years, from 2026 to 2028. The first two will be total and the last, void.
The expectation will be maximum on the first, on August 12, 2026. The next total eclipse, on the morning of August 2, 2027, will also occur in the middle of summer. But compared to 2026, it will have the advantages that its totality phase will be longer and that it will occur at a higher altitude above the horizon, when the Sun is still rising. In Ceuta, the Spanish point closest to the centrality line, the maximum duration will occur and will reach four minutes and 48 seconds, according to calculations by the National Astronomical Observatory. The band of totality will cross northern Spain towards the coast of Valencia, Alicante and Tarragona and then pass through the Balearic Islands, just before dying in the Mediterranean Sea. “In the Iberian Peninsula, Cádiz will have privileged places to observe the total eclipse more than two minutes,” explains David Galadí.