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

Luxor, Egypt: over six minutes of totality, within two seconds of the longest available anywhere on this eclipse, with the monuments of Thebes underneath it.

Local contact times

All times are for Luxor on Monday, 2 August 2027, in local clock time, computed for latitude 25.699, longitude 32.642 at sea level. A few hundred metres of elevation moves these by well under a second.

Sun altitude at maximum

82 degrees (almost directly overhead)

Most of the Sun covered

100 percent

Duration of totality

6 min 25 sec

Whole eclipse lasts

2 hr 46 min

Time zone

Africa/Cairo

Coordinates used

25.699, 32.642

How much room is there

Luxor sits about 145 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 north 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

Luxor sits almost exactly on the center line, and it is the reason this eclipse has been circled on calendars for decades. Totality runs well over six minutes with the Sun more than 80 degrees up, which is close to straight overhead: there is no horizon haze to fight and no need for a raised viewpoint. Early August in Upper Egypt is also about as reliable a sky as eclipse chasing offers, which is a rarer combination than it sounds. The heat is the real planning problem, not the weather.

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.