Viewpoint
Mirador de Las Marías
40.5700, -3.9330 · 857 m · Community of Madrid
Eclipse 12 Aug 2026
Score 69/ 100
Full totality visible
What the contact points (C1-C4) mean
A solar eclipse is described by four key moments, the contact points between the discs of the Sun and the Moon:
- C1First contact: the Moon touches the edge of the Sun and the partial eclipse begins.
- C2Second contact: the Moon fully covers the Sun and totality begins.
- C3Third contact: the Sun reappears and totality ends.
- C4Fourth contact: the Moon leaves the Sun's disc and the eclipse ends.
Where the eclipse is only partial, the Moon never fully covers the Sun: only C1 and C4 occur, with no totality in between.
Eclipse 2 Aug 2027
Score 50/ 100
Eclipse visible
The Sun will be 37-41° high, so terrain almost never blocks it: what decides is being inside the path, not the viewpoint's horizon.
Eclipse 26 Jan 2028
Score 42/ 100
Eclipse visible
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Practical info
- Elevation
- 857 m
- Accessibility
- No data
- Parking
- No data
- Coordinates
- 40.5700, -3.9330
Eclipse phases
Times in CEST local time
Oriented as seen with the naked eye, zenith up (official ephemerides usually draw it with celestial north up, rotated with respect to this).
Location
- Latitude
- 40.5700° N
- Longitude
- 3.9330° W
- Elevation
- 857 m
Eclipse phases
- Eclipse begins
- 19:36:27
- Totality begins
- 20:31:59
- Maximum
- 20:32:09
- Totality ends
- 20:32:18
- Eclipse ends
- 21:24:20
- Sunset (flat horizon)
- 21:17:21
Duration
- Eclipse
- 1h 47m 52s
- Totality
- At the edge
This location falls on the edge of the path of totality. You may see a few seconds of totality or just a very deep partial eclipse — the difference comes down to metres. We don't publish a duration because we couldn't stand behind it.
Values at maximum
- Obscuration
- 100%
- Sun altitude
- +7.6°
- Sun azimuth
- 283.1°
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