Eclipse glasses for businesses and hotels: a Monday mid-morning, for guests and staff

Glasses for the guests who’ll be there that morning and for the staff who’ll be working outside, plus a few spares, all handed out before it starts. The eclipse falls on Monday 2 August 2027, a working day, and in Spain the partial phase runs from 09:40 to 12:15 depending on where you are (mainland Spanish time, CEST, UTC+2). In the path of totality, the Sun goes out between 10:44 and 10:51, depending on the town. For a hotel, a campsite, a beach bar or a shop on the coast of Cádiz or Málaga, that falls right in the middle of a working morning.

A working Monday, at mid-morning

What changes the organisation of the day most is the time. These are some tourist towns in the path (mainland times, ours; totality from the IGN, Spain’s National Geographic Institute):

If your business is somewhere else, look at your own town’s page, not the one for the area: the path has edges, and a few kilometres away there’s no totality. You can look it up on will I see it?.

How many glasses

For guests, the sum comes from the occupancy expected for that night. An example with round numbers: a 60-room hotel with two people in each room means 120 guests; with 10 staff on shift on the terrace, by the pool or on the beach, 130; and with one spare in ten, 143.

The AAS (American Astronomical Society) says a group can share a few pairs of glasses, because the partial phase moves slowly and a glance every few minutes is enough. A set to lend out at reception may do for a business outside the path. Inside it, everyone will want to look at once around totality, and when the Sun comes back everyone needs their own glasses on: that’s where sharing works badly, as we explain in how many eclipse glasses do you need. And guests’ children need their own, with an adult beside them: the AAS asks adults to supervise children using solar filters at all times.

Where and when to hand them out

• Beforehand, not at the time: the day before, at check-in or with breakfast, with a card showing your town’s times and the two rules: glasses on throughout the partial phase, and off only during totality. The exact second for each town is in when to take off eclipse glasses in totality.
• Inspected: the AAS says to throw away any scratched, punctured or torn filter. If you lend glasses from a box at reception, check them every time they come back.
• Verified: before you buy, our guide to certified glasses explains what to look for in any pair.
• No devices: if a guest gets out binoculars or a phone, the glasses are no use for that, and they need a solar filter for a camera or phone.

Glasses with your logo

The AAS, in its list of suppliers of solar viewers and filters, says that some of them “offer custom printing to buyers making bulk purchases”. The logo goes on the frame; what you have to check is the filter, as with any other pair.

If what you want is a souvenir with your brand on it, on our page for businesses (in Spanish) we make eclipse T-shirts and mugs with your logo and your town’s name.

The times on your website and at your counter

• With the widget (in Spanish), which is free, you generate the code to show your town’s eclipse on your website.
• If you have a shop, you can hand over eclipse glasses there to people who have ordered them; the conditions are on pickup points.
• If you’re a town council, what to prepare (crowds, traffic, shade) is in what Spanish town councils should prepare for the eclipse.

At that time the Sun will be high (in Tarifa, at 38.1° at maximum) and still climbing, in high summer: shade and water for anyone waiting outside.

On Order your glasses you can ask for ours: cardboard, with the EN ISO 12312-2 certificate, along with the phone filter and packs for groups. We reply with the price and the delivery time.

Sources: AAS — How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely (a group can share a few glasses; a glance every few minutes; always supervise children; discard a damaged filter); AAS — Suppliers of Safe Solar Viewers & Filters (custom printing for bulk purchases); date, timing of the partial phase and of totality in Spain, times for each town and the Sun’s altitude: eclipseando data (skyfield engine + DE440s); totality durations: IGN.