The total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027, from Asyut, Egypt

Asyut, Egypt: over six minutes of totality on the Nile, north of the tourist corridor.

Local contact times

All times are for Assiut on Monday, 2 August 2027, in local clock time, computed for latitude 27.181, longitude 31.184 at sea level. A few hundred metres of elevation moves these by well under a second.

Sun altitude at maximum

81 degrees (almost directly overhead)

Most of the Sun covered

100 percent

Duration of totality

6 min 10 sec

Whole eclipse lasts

2 hr 46 min

Time zone

Africa/Cairo

Coordinates used

27.181, 31.184

How much room is there

Assiut sits about 112 km from the nearest edge of the path, which is comfortable margin.

It is close enough to the center line that a short drive gains little.

Distances are measured due south along this town's meridian. The path runs east-southeast, so the true shortest hop is a little less than these figures: treat them as an upper bound.

What to expect here

Asyut is the largest city in Upper Egypt and sits comfortably inside the path, giving up about 15 seconds against Luxor. It is a practical alternative for anyone approaching from Cairo rather than from the south, and it is far enough off the standard itinerary to be uncrowded.

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.