Yes, but only as a partial eclipse. In Europe, totality touches only southern Spain and Gibraltar. In the tables we have calculated for Portugal, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands there isn’t a single place with totality. The further south you are, the more of the Sun is covered: from 99.2% in Faro to 27.3% in Edinburgh. Maximum comes in mid-morning, from 09:44:51 in Lisbon to 11:13:54 in Berlin, each in its own local time.
City by city
Percentage of the Sun’s disc covered at maximum, local time at that moment, and the Sun’s altitude.
| City | Country | Sun covered | Maximum (local time) | Sun’s altitude |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faro | Portugal | 99.2% | 09:45:18 (UTC+1) | 35.8° |
| Lisbon | Portugal | 92.5% | 09:44:51 (UTC+1) | 34.6° |
| Porto | Portugal | 82.5% | 09:46:37 (UTC+1) | 35.1° |
| Ajaccio | France | 76.9% | 11:07:22 (UTC+2) | 51.0° |
| Marseille | France | 72.7% | 11:02:59 (UTC+2) | 47.4° |
| Toulouse | France | 72.5% | 10:58:17 (UTC+2) | 43.9° |
| Bordeaux | France | 67.7% | 10:56:28 (UTC+2) | 41.8° |
| Genoa | Italy | 66.5% | 11:07:45 (UTC+2) | 50.0° |
| Milan | Italy | 62.1% | 11:08:09 (UTC+2) | 49.7° |
| Paris | France | 51.3% | 11:01:13 (UTC+2) | 42.9° |
| Munich | Germany | 50.4% | 11:11:21 (UTC+2) | 49.9° |
| London | United Kingdom | 41.9% | 10:00:08 (UTC+1) | 40.2° |
| Amsterdam | Netherlands | 37.8% | 11:05:11 (UTC+2) | 43.2° |
| Dublin | Ireland | 35.7% | 09:56:23 (UTC+1) | 35.5° |
| Berlin | Germany | 34.0% | 11:13:54 (UTC+2) | 48.2° |
| Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 27.3% | 10:00:28 (UTC+1) | 36.7° |
For comparison, Madrid will see 86.1% and Barcelona 81.6%. The place in Spain with the least eclipse, Cariño (A Coruña province), will see 72.0%: more than Paris, London or Berlin.
Country by country: the most and the least
| Country | Places calculated | Least | Most |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 310 | Corvo (Azores), 74.8% | Faro and Olhão, 99.2% |
| France | 193 | Dunkirk, 43.2% | Ajaccio (Corsica), 76.9% |
| Italy (north only) | 60 | Bolzano, 56.9% | Sanremo, 69.5% |
| Germany | 81 | Rostock, 29.6% | Freiburg, 52.8% |
| Netherlands | 28 | Groningen, 34.5% | Maastricht, 43.0% |
| Ireland | 54 | Letterkenny, 30.4% | Carrigaline, 40.8% |
| United Kingdom | 220 | Aberdeen, 23.6% | Hugh Town (Isles of Scilly), 47.8% |
For Italy we have only calculated 60 municipalities in eight northern regions, so the website has no figures for Rome, Naples or Sicily. Each country has its own page, in its own language, with its places: Portugal, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany.
Each country’s time
That day the United Kingdom, Ireland and Portugal are on UTC+1, and France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands on UTC+2, like mainland Spain. The Azores are on UTC+0. That’s why clocks show such different times for the same event. London has maximum at 10:00:08 its time and Paris at 11:01:13 its time, but in universal time they are little more than a minute apart. From Lisbon to Berlin, maximum takes about 29 minutes to cross the continent, because the Moon’s shadow travels from west to east, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The whole route is in the shadow’s journey.
In all the cities in the table the Sun will be high, between 34.6° in Lisbon and 51.0° in Ajaccio, in the middle of the morning: there’s no need to look for a clear horizon.
What you see with a third or half of the Sun covered
With 30 or 50% of the disc covered, the Sun is still too bright to look at, and the bite can only be seen through eclipse glasses or by projecting the image. There is no moment when you can look without a filter: according to the IGN (Spain’s National Geographic Institute) and the AAS (American Astronomical Society), the EN ISO 12312-2 filter stays on throughout the partial phases, and in these cities the whole eclipse is partial. If you need glasses, you can order ours.
If you want totality
The closest for anyone living in Europe is southern Spain: the 105 towns in the path, with Ceuta at the top (4 min 48 s, according to the IGN), and Gibraltar. Across the Strait come Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia; the full list is in countries in the 2027 path of totality. From southern Portugal it’s a short hop: from Faro, the nearest town with totality is 146 km away as the crow flies, as we explain in the eclipse from Portugal.
Sources: percentages, times and Sun altitudes for each city: eclipseando’s indexes for Portugal, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands (skyfield engine + DE440s); Madrid, Barcelona and Cariño: eclipseando’s Spain index; countries with totality: Solar eclipse of August 2, 2027 — Wikipedia, checked point by point with eclipseando’s engine (Gibraltar included); Ceuta’s duration: IGN — eclipses.ign.es (in Spanish); legal time in each country: IANA time zone database (tzdata); safety standard: IGN and AAS — How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely.
If you would like something to keep from the eclipse, the shop prints T-shirts, mugs and posters with the name of your town, the time of its maximum and its seconds of totality. See the merchandise →
Remember: never look at the Sun without proper eye protection (filters made to EN ISO 12312-2). The official reference for safe viewing in Spain is the IGN (in Spanish): eclipses.ign.es.