2 August 2027
Six minutes and twenty-three seconds.
Nothing longer until 2114.
Today's eclipse gave Spain under two minutes of totality, and most of the country never saw it go dark at all. On 2 August 2027 the shadow comes back wider, higher in the sky and more than three times longer.
6m 23s
maximum totality, near Luxor
89M
people living inside the path
2114
next time one lasts longer
Where the shadow lands
Southern Spain
Cádiz, Málaga, and the coast of Granada and Almería. The only place in Europe where totality is visible.
Gibraltar
Directly under the path, on the edge of the Strait.
Morocco
Tangier and the north, minutes after the shadow leaves Spain.
Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
Benghazi sits under the centreline. Cloud cover here is close to nil in August.
Egypt
Luxor: 6 minutes 20 seconds, a few kilometres off the point of greatest eclipse.
Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia
Jeddah is in the path before the shadow leaves over the Indian Ocean.
Seeing it is the easy part
The band is narrow and August is high season. For the eclipse that just happened, hotel rates in the best-placed areas rose by up to 85% and bookings by 76%, with some towns inside the path running out of rooms entirely. That was for a two-minute eclipse in one country. The 2027 one is three times longer and crosses ten.
Whatever you decide, decide it early. The people who waited are the ones who paid double, or watched from the wrong side of a hill.
Where to stay near Cádiz
Prices and availability for the eclipse night, 1 to 3 August 2027. For the 2026 eclipse, rates in the best-placed towns rose up to 85% and some ran out of rooms entirely.
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Next one: 2 August 2027
The longest eclipse until 2114
Totality reaches 6 minutes 23 seconds near Luxor, and the path crosses southern Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt. The hard part will not be seeing it: it will be finding a bed. For the August 2026 eclipse, rates in the best areas rose up to 85% and bookings 76%.
One email about 2027. Nothing else.
Path and duration figures: NASA-derived maps published by the National Solar Observatory, Sky & Telescope and NationalEclipse. Occupancy and rate figures: SiteMinder data for the August 2026 eclipse, reported by Vozpópuli.