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The 2027 total solar eclipse in southern Spain
On Monday 2 August 2027 the moon’s shadow crosses the Strait of Gibraltar. Southern Spain is the only place in continental Europe where the eclipse will be total, and totality lasts up to 4 minutes and 48 seconds at its longest point.
We are a licensed Spanish travel agency on that coast, and these are our English-language guides to planning the trip: where the path runs, how long totality lasts in each town, which places to choose, and when hotels open for booking. All durations come from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Spain’s national mapping agency. Where a figure cannot be confirmed, we say so instead of guessing.
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Where to see the 2027 total solar eclipse in Spain
The complete guide: how the path of totality runs across southern Spain, how long totality lasts town by town according to the Spanish national mapping agency, which famous places miss out entirely, and the five things that decide where you should stand.
Destinations
Best towns near the centre line: Zahara, Conil, Tarifa and Los Caños compared
Four Atlantic towns on the coast of Cádiz, separated by less than forty seconds of totality and by an enormous gap in how easy they are to actually use. Minutes, access, parking and capacity, side by side.
Planning
Spain or Egypt: the honest comparison
The same eclipse gives you under five minutes in Spain and over six in Luxor, under a sky that almost never clouds over. Duration, weather odds, cost and effort, from an agency that sells both.
Planning
Hotels for the 2027 eclipse: when bookings open
Most Spanish coastal hotels have not opened August 2027 yet. When we expect rates to appear, what sells out first inside the path, and what to check before committing money two years ahead. No invented prices.
Destinations
Ceuta: the longest totality, and the ferry problem
4 minutes 48 seconds — 288 seconds — the longest anywhere in Spanish territory. Also the place where the real bottleneck is not astronomical but a ferry seat, because there is no airport.
Destinations
Málaga and the Costa del Sol: who gets totality, and for how long
Fewer seconds than the Atlantic coast and vastly more beds. Which Málaga municipalities are inside the path, which are out, and why the western Costa del Sol is the best logistical base of the whole band.
Where to stay
Where to stay for the 2027 eclipse, town by town
The whole band read the other way round: official IGN durations for thirty-three towns set against how many beds each one really has. The two areas with genuine capacity, the towns with the minutes and nowhere to sleep, and what we would book first.
Getting there
Getting there from the UK and the US
Four airports serve the band and only three are useful. Which airlines actually fly Málaga, Jerez, Gibraltar and Seville from Britain, the one nonstop from North America, driving times, and how to do the whole trip without a hire car.
Timing
When to book, and what August 2026 showed
Spain has just run the experiment. What the 12 August 2026 eclipse did to occupancy, prices and roads in the north, why the 2027 band is the harder version of the same problem, and why the small hotels still have no rates published.
Weather
Cloud risk, coast by coast
The best minutes and the best cloud odds are not in the same place. Atlantic morning stratus, the levanter over the Strait, what Eclipsophile and the IGN actually record for each stretch, and how to book so a grey morning is survivable.
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Chat with us on WhatsAppThe rest of this website is in Spanish, including a much larger set of eclipse articles covering individual towns, what to pack, eye safety and travelling with children.
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