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

Malaga, Spain: inside the path, but only just: under two minutes.

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 Málaga on Monday, 2 August 2027, in local clock time, computed for latitude 36.720, longitude -4.420 at sea level. A few hundred metres of elevation moves these by well under a second.

Sun altitude at maximum

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

Most of the Sun covered

100 percent

Duration of totality

1 min 51 sec

Whole eclipse lasts

2 hr 20 min

Time zone

Europe/Madrid

Coordinates used

36.720, -4.420

Which way the shadow moves

The Moon's shadow reaches Málaga from the west and leaves toward the east, crossing at about 4,400 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

Málaga is only about 9 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 25 sec (94 seconds more)
• 50 km south: 4 min 16 sec (145 seconds more)

One caution for the map rather than the clock: due south of Malaga those distances stand in the Alboran Sea. Read them as what deeper path is worth, not as a route; the road that actually collects the gain runs southwest along the coast, toward Estepona and eventually Tarifa, whose own page shows what the far end of that drive buys.

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 1 min 51 sec of totality actually is

For 1 min 51 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

Malaga is the cautionary entry, and the numbers above are the reason. It is genuinely inside the path, so the experience is real, but only barely: the northern limit passes within about ten kilometres of the city, and a viewing spot on the wrong side of town could miss totality altogether. Malaga is where a great many people will watch this eclipse simply because it is where the flights go. Anyone with a car and a free morning should drive southwest along the coast, into the deeper path.

The climate argument for Malaga is real: August mornings on this coast are overwhelmingly clear, and what morning cloud does form tends to burn off early. Weather is not this town's problem; geometry is.

Frequently asked questions

What time is totality in Málaga?

Totality in Málaga begins at 10:48:02 GMT+2 and ends at 10:49:53 GMT+2 local time, lasting 1 min 51 sec. In UTC, that is 08:48:02 to 08:49:53. CycleCalcs computes these times for latitude 36.720, longitude -4.420.

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

Yes. Málaga is inside the path: the Sun is completely covered for 1 min 51 sec, with maximum eclipse at 10:48:58 GMT+2 local time.

Which direction does the eclipse shadow come from in Málaga?

The shadow reaches Málaga from the west and leaves toward the east, crossing at about 4,400 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. Málaga sits only about 9 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 1 min 51 sec of totality. The moments that need an adult's attention are around 10:48:02 GMT+2, when filters come off, and 10:49:53 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.