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eclipseando · Total solar eclipse · 2 August 2027
The heat of the eclipse
The eclipse reaches Egypt at the sunniest hour of the day, in midsummer. Totality falls between 12:39 and 13:19 Egypt time, with the Sun between 73° and 83° high: almost straight overhead.
From first to last contact you spend 2 h 46 min in the sun. Plan for all of it, not only for the minutes of totality.
The good news is the sky: in August it hardly ever rains in southern Egypt, and the month’s sunshine hours come close to the maximum possible.
August in southern Egypt
| City | Average high | Average low | Humidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxor | 41.2 °C | 25.6 °C | 33% |
| Aswan | 41.9 °C | 27.9 °C | 21% |
| Asyut | 37.6 °C | 23.2 °C | 35% |
| Hurghada | 37.5 °C | 28.0 °C | 46% |
NOAA 1991–2020 normals, as given in each city’s English Wikipedia article.
How to prepare
- Plenty of water for everyone, including the wait.
- Shade nearby and a hat: at midday there is almost no shadow.
- With the Sun so high, looking up strains your neck. A sun lounger or a mat helps.
- Eclipse glasses meeting ISO 12312-2 for every partial phase. Take them off only during totality.
- Phones and cameras overheat in the sun: keep them in the shade until the moment.
Places: UN administrative boundaries (OCHA COD-AB for Egypt, produced by CAPMAS, CC BY-IGO) and GeoNames (geonames.org, CC BY 4.0). Times and durations: our own calculation with JPL’s DE440s ephemeris, in Egypt time (UTC+3, summer time on 2 August 2027).