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

Sohag, Egypt: fractionally the longest totality on this list, and far quieter than Luxor.

Local contact times

All times are for Sohag on Monday, 2 August 2027, in local clock time, computed for latitude 26.557, longitude 31.695 at sea level. A few hundred metres of elevation moves these by well under a second.

Sun altitude at maximum

81 degrees (almost directly overhead)

Most of the Sun covered

100 percent

Duration of totality

6 min 26 sec

Whole eclipse lasts

2 hr 46 min

Time zone

Africa/Cairo

Coordinates used

26.557, 31.695

How much room is there

Sohag sits about 147 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 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

Sohag is a working Nile city rather than a tourist one, and it happens to sit a shade closer to the point of greatest duration than Luxor does. The difference is about a second, which is meaningless to experience and useful to know: it means anywhere along this stretch of the Nile is effectively equivalent, so the choice can be made on roads, accommodation and crowds rather than on seconds.

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.