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

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

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 that way 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

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.

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)

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

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 south.

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.