The total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027, from Gibraltar

Gibraltar: four and a half minutes of totality over the Rock.

Local contact times

All times are for Gibraltar on Monday, 2 August 2027, in local clock time, computed for latitude 36.145, longitude -5.353 at sea level. A few hundred metres of elevation moves these by well under a second.

Sun altitude at maximum

38 degrees (a bit under halfway up, so an open view that way matters)

Most of the Sun covered

100 percent

Duration of totality

4 min 29 sec

Whole eclipse lasts

2 hr 20 min

Time zone

Europe/Gibraltar

Coordinates used

36.145, -5.353

How much room is there

Gibraltar sits about 70 km from the nearest edge of the path, which is comfortable margin.

Moving south toward the center line buys measurably more:

• 50 km south: 4 min 56 sec (27 seconds more)

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

Gibraltar sits well inside the path and gets about four and a half minutes. The Rock itself is the complication rather than the attraction: at a Sun altitude near 38 degrees, where you stand relative to 400 metres of limestone decides whether you see the partial phases at all.

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.