The total solar eclipse of 12 August 2026 in Iceland

The Moon’s shadow for this eclipse crosses very little land: the path of totality reaches the North Atlantic over Greenland, then Iceland, then continues to northern Spain. Of these, Iceland and Spain are the two with real tourist infrastructure — flights, roads, hotels — inside the path. This page covers Iceland; for Spain, where the path is longer and the tourist infrastructure more built-out, see eclipseando.es (Spanish site).

See where totality falls on the map →

Iceland eclipse summary

Settlements we track in totality: 38 of 97
Longest totality: 2m 10s in Hellissandur, Snæfellsbær
Population inside totality: ≈80.4% of the 355,323 people in the settlements we track
Elsewhere in Iceland: 95.2–99.9% partial, in the 59 other settlements we track

Circumstances computed for the coordinates of each locality with JPL DE440s ephemerides. All times on the individual pages are Icelandic local time (UTC+0 all year, no daylight saving).

Reykjavík is inside the path of totality

Iceland’s capital, home to some 118,918 people, will see 1m 02s of totality, with the Sun at 24.5° altitude — comfortably above the horizon, unlike the near-sunset totality much of Spain will see the same afternoon. Exact times for Reykjavík →

Iceland eclipse guides

Everything to decide before the day — written for Iceland, with every figure computed from this same dataset:

Safe viewing

The EN ISO 12312-2 rule, where to get certified glasses for an Iceland trip, and the one moment you may look without them.

What to expect, minute by minute

Eclipse day on Reykjavík's exact timeline: the light, the temperature drop, Baily's beads, the corona — and when the glasses go on and off.

Where to watch

The longest totality in the dataset — Snæfellsnes, the Westfjords, the capital — with honest driving logistics and the cloud strategy.

Trip planning

Three honest itineraries — city base, Snæfellsnes circuit, Westfjords expedition — and what else to see those days.

Every tracked Iceland settlement inside totality

Sorted by duration of totality (our own computation for each locality’s coordinates):

Iceland settlements inside the path of totality, 12 August 2026
Locality	Municipality	Totality	Sun altitude
Hellissandur	Snæfellsbær	2m 10s	25.2°
Rif	Snæfellsbær	2m 09s	25.2°
Hellnar	Snæfellsbær	2m 07s	25.2°
Ólafsvík	Snæfellsbær	2m 07s	25.2°
Patreksfjörður	Vesturbyggð	2m 07s	25.2°
Arnarstapi	Snæfellsbær	2m 06s	25.1°
Talknafjordur	Vesturbyggð	2m 03s	25.1°
Bíldudalur	Vesturbyggð	1m 56s	25°
Grundarfjörður	Grundarfjarðarbær	1m 55s	25°
Þingeyri	Ísafjarðarbær	1m 51s	24.9°
Flateyri	Ísafjarðarbær	1m 50s	24.9°
Suðureyri	Ísafjarðarbær	1m 50s	24.9°
Hafnir	Reykjanesbær	1m 49s	24.8°
Sandgerði	Suðurnesjabær	1m 48s	24.8°
Garður	Suðurnesjabær	1m 46s	24.8°
Brjánslækur	Vesturbyggð	1m 45s	24.9°
Keflavík	Reykjanesbær	1m 43s	24.8°
Reykjanesbær	Reykjanesbær	1m 43s	24.8°
Grindavík	Grindavíkurbær	1m 41s	24.7°
Bolungarvík	Bolungarvíkurkaupstaður	1m 39s	24.8°
Flatey	Reykhólahreppur	1m 36s	24.8°
Vogar	Sveitarfélagið Vogar	1m 36s	24.7°
Ísafjörður	Ísafjarðarbær	1m 35s	24.7°
Hnífsdalur	Ísafjarðarbær	1m 34s	24.7°
Stykkishólmur	Sveitarfélagið Stykkishólmur	1m 33s	24.7°
Súðavík	Súðavíkurhreppur	1m 29s	24.7°
Álftanes	Garðabær	1m 13s	24.5°
Akranes	Akraneskaupstaður	1m 11s	24.5°
Seltjarnarnes	Seltjarnarnesbær	1m 10s	24.5°
Hafnarfjörður	Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður	1m 08s	24.5°
Garðabær	Garðabær	1m 06s	24.5°
Kópavogur	Kópavogsbær	1m 05s	24.5°
Reykjavík	Reykjavíkurborg	1m 02s	24.5°
Grundarhverfi	Reykjavíkurborg	0m 53s	24.4°
Borgarnes	Borgarbyggð	0m 50s	24.4°
Reykhólar	Reykhólahreppur	0m 45s	24.4°
Mosfellsbær	Mosfellsbær	0m 40s	24.4°
Hvanneyri	Borgarbyggð	0m 25s	24.4°

Elsewhere in Iceland: a deep partial eclipse

Every other settlement we track — 59 in total, from the East Fjords to the far north — falls just outside the path, with 95.2–99.9% of the Sun covered rather than 100%. A short list, from the coverage extremes:

Búðardalur — 99.9% partial
Eyrarbakki — 99.9% partial
Hólmavík — 99.9% partial
Hveragerði — 99.9% partial
Reykholt — 99.9% partial

Browse all 159 localities, region by region

The tables above show the highlights. Every single locality we track — settlements and whole municipalities alike — has its own page with its own computed times, and they are indexed by Iceland's 8 regions:

Capital Region (Höfuðborgarsvæðið) — 15 localities, 14 inside totality
Reykjanes Peninsula (Suðurnes) — 11 localities, 11 inside totality
West Iceland (Vesturland) — 21 localities, 15 inside totality
Westfjords (Vestfirðir) — 23 localities, 18 inside totality
Northwest Iceland (Norðurland vestra) — 13 localities, partial only, up to 99.7%
Northeast Iceland (Norðurland eystra) — 28 localities, partial only, up to 98.4%
East Iceland (Austurland) — 18 localities, partial only, up to 96.8%
South Iceland (Suðurland) — 30 localities, partial only, up to 99.9%

The full region index, with what each one gets →

Iceland vs. Spain

Iceland’s slice of totality is brief: 2m 10s at its longest, in a handful of settlements clustered around the southwest coast and the Westfjords. Spain’s path of totality is longer and crosses a much larger, more visited stretch of the country, with an established tourism industry built around it. If you’re weighing where to go, our full Spanish coverage in English is a click away: the interactive map of the path, the 50 best villages ranked by totality and the exact times city by city. The original Spanish edition lives at eclipseando.es.

The same evening, from the rest of these islands

Iceland is the only English-language country section on this site where the eclipse turns total. Two more get a deep partial, each with its own dataset and its own pages: the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland included) and the Republic of Ireland. If your trip to Iceland falls through, those pages say honestly what you would see from home instead.

Data source: our own eclipse-circumstances pipeline (JPL DE440s ephemerides), computed for the coordinates of each Iceland locality. No figure on this page is estimated or sourced from a third party.