Overview
- City officials in Madrid are setting up public viewing sites, naming Valdebebas–Felipe VI Park as a central location for the 12 August 2026 total solar eclipse.
- The 2026 event, confirmed by NASA, will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Russia and a small area of Portugal, with parts of Madrid region in the path of totality near sunset.
- The next year’s eclipse on 2 August 2027 will be the longest totality visible from land this century, lasting about 6 minutes 23 seconds at its peak near Luxor, Egypt.
- The 2027 path will cross southern Iberia, North Africa and the Middle East, reaching cities such as Málaga, Cádiz, Tangier, Luxor, Jeddah and Mecca, which could see daytime turn to deep twilight.
- Regional reporting in Spain highlights an “Iberian eclipse trio” from August 2026 to January 2028, ending with an annular event on 26 January 2028 in Andalusia, alongside NASA-backed safety guidance to use ISO 12312-2 solar viewers and to view the Sun unprotected only during totality.