JANUARY 26, 2028 · ANNULAR ECLIPSE

Ring of fire over the southeast

Name: Total Solar Eclipse — Spain, 2028-01-26
Start: 2028-01-26
End: 2028-01-26
Location: Spain

An annular eclipse in midwinter: the Sun appears as a bright ring. Visible in a band crossing Murcia, Almería and eastern Andalusia.

Towns seeing the ring: 102; of 297 Spanish towns inside the path, above the real horizon
Sun altitude: 4–8°; very low: the terrain decides who sees it
Path width: 326 km; at the point of greatest duration
Greatest eclipse: 15:07 UTC; worldwide, not at your location

The path of the shadow

Globe showing the path of totality and the eclipse centre line

Begins on Earth: 12:06:43 UTC
First totality: 13:14:54 UTC
Greatest: 15:07:49 UTC
Last totality: 17:00:45 UTC
Ends on Earth: 18:08:57 UTC

These are the moments of the event worldwide, not for one place: the second line is your local time, your device's, not that of the place the eclipse is seen from.

The Spanish cities with the full ring above the real horizon

In Spain, 102 cities see the full ring above the real horizon — not just the geometric one. The solar filter never comes off: in an annular eclipse the photosphere is never covered.

#	Spot	Region	Obscuration	Margin (δ)	Elevation
1	Ayamonte	Andalucia	82.72%	7.69°	12 m
2	Conil de la Frontera	Andalucia	82.69%	7.54°	42 m
3	Isla Cristina	Andalucia	82.71%	7.52°	7 m
4	Cadiz	Andalucia	82.69%	7.48°	22 m
5	Rota	Andalucia	82.69%	7.44°	17 m
6	San Fernando	Andalucia	82.69%	7.41°	15 m
7	Puerto Real	Andalucia	82.69%	7.32°	14 m
8	Jerez de la Frontera	Andalucia	82.68%	7.20°	53 m
9	Almonte	Andalucia	82.68%	6.98°	74 m
10	Lepe	Andalucia	82.71%	6.85°	24 m
11	Los Palacios y Villafranca	Andalucia	82.67%	6.85°	13 m
12	Utrera	Andalucia	82.66%	6.82°	52 m
13	Mairena del Aljarafe	Andalucia	82.67%	6.80°	70 m
14	Arcos de la Frontera	Andalucia	82.67%	6.80°	144 m
15	Sanlúcar de Barrameda	Andalucia	82.69%	6.71°	12 m

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Near-totality

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In Spain, 0 municipalities fall short of 100% obscuration but stay above 99% — to the naked eye indistinguishable from totality, even though astronomically it isn't.

#	Spot	Region	Obscuration	Margin (δ)	Elevation

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The planning challenge

In January the Sun is low, like in 2026. But this time the band is inland — mountains and plateaus can block the ring. Observer altitude will be decisive.

And from where you are?

This page tells the eclipse for the whole planet. The simulator works it out for one specific spot: with the real terrain horizon, not the geometric one, and with the cloud cover for that date.

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