Eclipses and countries › 12 August 2026
Total solar eclipse of 12 August 2026
2 countries have towns in the path: Iceland and Spain. The path also crosses Russia, Greenland and Portugal, without towns of 15,000 inhabitants or more. On the central line totality lasts at most 2 min 18 s. The longest of these towns is Sama in Spain, with 1 min 48 s. There the path is about 305 km wide and the shadow moves at about 7,000 km/h. The central shadow touches the Earth from 17:00 to 18:32 UTC; the partial eclipse can be seen somewhere on Earth from 15:33 to 19:58 UTC.
Open on the mapAll 158 places in the city seeker
Countries along the path
In the order the shadow crosses them. Cloud cover is the average at the hour of the eclipse; the start is the local time in the first town the shadow reaches.
Best places by score
The score of the city seeker with its default setting: cloud cover counts heavily; duration, height of the Sun, airport, travel risk and terrain count less. At most two places per country. Your own setting in the city seeker can change the order.
- Benavente, Spain 1001 min 22 s · 35% cloud · Sun 10°
- León, Spain 1001 min 45 s · 40% cloud · Sun 10°
- Keflavík, Iceland 161 min 39 s · 81% cloud · Sun 25°
- Reykjanesbær, Iceland 161 min 39 s · 81% cloud · Sun 25°
Longest of all: Sama, Spain, 1 min 48 s (score 60).
Moments
- Partial eclipse begins on Earth
- Central shadow touches the Earth
- Central shadow leaves the Earth
- Partial eclipse ends on Earth
Seen from elsewhere
The deepest moment of the partial eclipse in the largest city of each language of this site, in local time.
| City | Sun covered | Deepest |
|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | 88% | 20:10 UTC+2 |
| London | 91% | 19:13 UTC+1 |
| Berlin | 85% | 20:08 UTC+2 |
| Paris | 92% | 20:17 UTC+2 |
| Madrid | 100% | 20:32 UTC+2 |
| Rome | 76% | 20:14 UTC+2 |
| Lisbon | 94% | 19:36 UTC+1 |
| Moscow | 8% | 20:12 UTC+3 |
Not visible from Cairo, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.