The total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027, from Benghazi, Libya

Benghazi, Libya: over six minutes of totality on the Mediterranean coast.

Local contact times

All times are for Benghazi on Monday, 2 August 2027, in local clock time, computed for latitude 32.115, longitude 20.069 at sea level. A few hundred metres of elevation moves these by well under a second.

Sun altitude at maximum

68 degrees (high in the sky)

Most of the Sun covered

100 percent

Duration of totality

6 min 13 sec

Whole eclipse lasts

2 hr 42 min

Time zone

Africa/Tripoli

Coordinates used

32.115, 20.069

How much room is there

Benghazi sits about 136 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

Benghazi gets a totality within a dozen seconds of Luxor with the Sun near 70 degrees up, and it is on the coast rather than inland, which changes the temperature problem entirely. Travel to Libya carries its own considerations that have nothing to do with astronomy; check your own government's current advice rather than an eclipse map.

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.