12 August 2026

The eclipse is over. Did you catch it?

Here are the photos, videos and news from today. And the next one already has a date: the total eclipse of 2 August 2027, this time over Andalusia.

Today’s photos & videos Eclipse news A keepsake of today

Will I see the eclipse from where I’m staying?

On 12 August 2026 a total solar eclipse will cross Spain from Galicia to the Balearic Islands — the first visible from the mainland since 1905. Type the name of any Spanish municipality (your hotel’s town, your campsite, your village) and we’ll tell you whether the eclipse is total or partial there, the exact local time of maximum and how long totality lasts.

Tip: type the Spanish place name (e.g. “Burgos”, “Oviedo”, “Palma”). Place names are never translated — pick one and we take you straight to its page, in English.

Type your municipality

Glasses to watch it, and a keepsake with the name of your town

We print your town with its own time and its seconds of totality. Outside the path of totality, certified glasses.

See all 15 customisable items Made once you order it — that is why there is a lead time. Prices and lead times come from the catalogue, measured with real orders on 27 July 2026. Third-party gear links to our own page, with the standard and the date it was checked.

Pass it on to your people

Send it to your group Everyone can look up their own town: all 8,132 are in there

One tap — the message is already written, you just pick who gets it.

How to read your result

Total or partial?

Of Spain’s 8,132 municipalities, 3,952 lie inside the path of totality. Only there does the Moon cover the Sun completely and night falls for a few moments; everywhere else the eclipse is partial — though above 95% across most of the country.

The Sun will be very low

Totality arrives between 20:27 and 20:33 (mainland local time), almost at sunset, with the Sun only a few degrees high. Choose a spot with a clear west-northwest horizon: no mountains, buildings or haze blocking the Sun.

All times are local

Every time on this site is local: mainland Spain and the Balearics (CEST, UTC+2) or the Canary Islands (WEST, UTC+1), depending on the municipality. No conversion needed.

Protect your eyes

During the partial phases, look at the Sun only through certified eclipse glasses (EN ISO 12312-2 with a CE mark). How to verify yours in our glasses guide and in the official guidance at eclipses.ign.es.

The gear, sorted

Only one thing is essential: EN ISO 12312-2 certified glasses for the partial phases. Everything else (a phone filter, a solar-filtered telescope) is optional and multiplies the experience — our glasses guide explains how to choose it.

Where this data comes from

The eclipse circumstances (times, percentage of the Sun covered, totality duration and Sun altitude) are computed for each of the 8,132 municipalities using the JPL DE440s ephemerides (NASA) and cross-checked against the official data of Spain’s National Geographic Institute, published at eclipses.ign.es.