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The total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027, from Cadiz, Spain

Cadiz, Spain: just under three minutes, in a city set up to receive visitors.

Planning to stand here? Your Eclipse Day computes this morning to the second for your exact coordinates, as a printable plan, a pocket field card and a calendar file with alarms.

Local contact times

All times are for Cadiz on Monday, 2 August 2027, in local clock time, computed for latitude 36.527, longitude -6.289 at sea level. A few hundred metres of elevation moves these by well under a second.

Sun altitude at maximum

37 degrees (a bit under halfway up, so an open view toward the east matters)

Most of the Sun covered

100 percent

Duration of totality

2 min 54 sec

Whole eclipse lasts

2 hr 19 min

Time zone

Europe/Madrid

Coordinates used

36.527, -6.289

Which way the shadow moves

The Moon's shadow reaches Cadiz from the west and leaves toward the east, crossing at about 4,650 km/h. In the final minute before totality the darkening builds in the west sky, sweeps over, and races off toward the east. CycleCalcs computes this from the local timing gradient around the town.

How much room is there

Cadiz is only about 24 km inside the path. Drive that far north and totality disappears entirely. This is not a town to watch from casually: check which side of the limit your actual viewing spot falls on. And this close to the edge, the limit's exact position is itself uncertain by a kilometre or two (the Moon's mountainous edge decides exactly where grazing totality fails), so treat the duration as approximate and move deeper into the path if you can.

Moving south toward the center line buys measurably more:

• 25 km south: 3 min 55 sec (61 seconds more)
• 50 km south: 4 min 30 sec (96 seconds more)

One caution for the map: south of Cadiz the second of those distances stands in the Atlantic. The drive that actually collects the gain follows the coast southeast toward Tarifa and the Strait.

Distances are measured due south along this town's meridian. The path runs east here, so the true shortest hop is a little less than these figures: treat them as an upper bound. And on eclipse morning every road toward the center line carries everyone else's identical plan, so be in position early.

What 2 min 54 sec of totality actually is

For 2 min 54 sec the Moon covers the whole of the Sun's disc. Daylight collapses into a deep, strange twilight, the temperature dips, and the corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere, invisible from the ground at any other time, stands out around a black disc. Because the shadow is only a few hundred kilometres wide, the horizon glows with sunset colors in every direction at once. The brighter stars can come out; among the planets, Jupiter stands about twenty degrees from the eclipsed Sun, while Venus, the showpiece of most total eclipses, sits within three degrees of it that morning and stays lost in the glare. Nothing at 99 percent resembles this: a deep partial is a dimmed day, not a revealed corona, which is why the margin section above matters.

What to expect here

Cadiz is inside the path but well off the center line, so it gets under three minutes where Tarifa gets over four and a half. For most people that trade is worth it: Cadiz has the hotels, the transport and the sea breeze, and three minutes of totality is still three minutes of totality. Anyone counting seconds should follow the coast southeast toward Tarifa on the day.

August climatology is firmly on this coast's side: rain is close to unknown and clear mornings are the rule on the Gulf of Cadiz. The levante's cloud mostly hugs the Strait further southeast; Cadiz usually escapes the worst of it.

Frequently asked questions

What time is totality in Cadiz?

Totality in Cadiz begins at 10:45:17 GMT+2 and ends at 10:48:11 GMT+2 local time, lasting 2 min 54 sec. In UTC, that is 08:45:17 to 08:48:11. CycleCalcs computes these times for latitude 36.527, longitude -6.289.

Is Cadiz in the path of totality on August 2, 2027?

Yes. Cadiz is inside the path: the Sun is completely covered for 2 min 54 sec, with maximum eclipse at 10:46:44 GMT+2 local time.

Which direction does the eclipse shadow come from in Cadiz?

The shadow reaches Cadiz from the west and leaves toward the east, crossing at about 4,650 km/h. In the final minute before totality the darkening builds in the west sky.

Can I see the eclipse from my location?

These times are computed for the listed coordinates. Cadiz sits only about 24 km inside the path, so toward the north the duration shrinks by tens of seconds within a few kilometres, and past the limit totality does not happen at all. Check your exact spot: the CycleCalcs Eclipse Explorer computes local circumstances for coordinates you give it.

Is the eclipse safe for children to watch?

Yes, with the same rules as adults: certified eclipse glasses meeting ISO 12312-2 for every partial phase, and bare eyes only during the 2 min 54 sec of totality. The moments that need an adult's attention are around 10:45:17 GMT+2, when filters come off, and 10:48:11 GMT+2, when they must go straight back on; the table above has both instants to the second.

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.