The total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027, from Aswan, Egypt
Aswan, Egypt: NOT in the path, despite being 200 km from six minutes of totality.
No totality here
Aswan, Egypt is outside the path of totality. At maximum, about 99 percent of the Sun is covered and a sliver stays visible the whole time. The corona does not appear, the sky does not go dark, and eye protection must stay on for every minute of it.
Local contact times
All times are for Aswān on Monday, 2 August 2027, in local clock time, computed for latitude 24.091, longitude 32.899 at sea level. A few hundred metres of elevation moves these by well under a second.
| Stage | Local time | UTC | What happens |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partial eclipse begins | 11:42:43 GMT+3 | 08:42:43 UTC | The Moon takes the first bite out of the Sun. Filters on. |
| Maximum eclipse | 13:08:16 GMT+3 | 10:08:16 UTC | The deepest point, with 99 percent of the Sun covered. Filters stay on. |
| Partial eclipse ends | 14:29:40 GMT+3 | 11:29:40 UTC | The Sun is whole again. |
- Sun altitude at maximum
- 83 degrees (almost directly overhead)
- Most of the Sun covered
- about 99 percent
- Duration of totality
- none
- Whole eclipse lasts
- 2 hr 47 min
- Time zone
- Africa/Cairo
- Coordinates used
- 24.091, 32.899
Eye safety. There is no moment during this eclipse when it is safe to look at the Sun without a certified solar filter. Aswān never reaches totality, so a sliver of the photosphere is visible throughout, and that sliver is as damaging as the whole Sun.
How far to real totality
The edge of the path is about 15 km north of Aswān. Reaching the edge is not the goal, though: totality there lasts seconds. Going further is what buys the experience.
- 25 km north: 2 min 17 sec of totality
- 50 km north: 4 min 02 sec of totality
- 100 km north: 5 min 42 sec of totality
Distances are measured due north along this town's meridian. The path runs east-southeast, so the true shortest hop is a little less: treat these as an upper bound, and plan the drive on real roads rather than a straight line.
What to expect here
This page exists to prevent a specific expensive mistake. Aswan is on almost every Nile itinerary and it is outside the path of totality: the Moon covers over 99 percent of the Sun and never quite all of it. That last fraction of a percent is the entire difference between a partial eclipse and a total one, and it is not a small difference. The corona does not appear, the sky does not go dark, the stars do not come out, and eye protection must stay on for the whole event. The good news is how narrowly Aswan misses, and how cheap the fix is: the section above has the distances.
Checking another location
This page is computed for one set of coordinates. For anywhere else, including a specific hotel, a viewpoint or a spot out on the path, the Eclipse Explorer computes local contact times and how much of the Sun is covered for any location you give it, and the main page for this eclipse carries the global circumstances, the Saros series and the shape of the path.
These are mean-limb times. The Moon's edge is mountainous, so the exact instants totality begins and ends shift by a second or two depending on which lunar valley the last sliver of Sun drains through. That correction is smaller than the difference a short drive makes, and smaller than the error in standing somewhere other than these exact coordinates. Every figure here is a computed fact you may reuse freely; see how these were computed.
The same eclipse from other towns
Every town below is computed the same way, so the durations are directly comparable.
Ceuta
4 min 51 sec of totality, Sun 38 degrees up.
Cadiz, Spain
2 min 54 sec of totality, Sun 37 degrees up.
Malaga, Spain
1 min 51 sec of totality, Sun 39 degrees up.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
6 min 03 sec of totality, Sun 76 degrees up.
Marsa Matruh, Egypt
Outside the path: about 97 percent covered, no totality.
All towns, side by side
Every town on this path in one table, sorted by how long totality lasts.