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The next total solar eclipse visible from Spain will take place in August 2026
It’s been a phenomenal year for celestial events, and stargazers are in for not one but two rare treats this October: an eclipse of the Sun and another of the Moon.
The most anticipated event by far will occur on Tuesday October 25, when the first partial solar eclipse will take place, which will be visible in Europe, Northeast Africa and West Asia.
According to the Astronomy portal of the National Geographic Institute (IGN), a solar eclipse takes place when “the light of the Sun is totally or partially hidden by interposing a star between the Sun and the observer” . In our case, what blocks the Sun is the Moon.
When is the next eclipse and from where in Spain can it be seen?
The next event, scheduled for October 25, is a partial solar eclipse which will be visible at a very low magnitude in northern Spain. According to the IGN, magnitude refers to the fraction of the Sun’s diameter that is hidden by the Moon.
The best vantage point will be in Girona, where the eclipse will reach a maximum magnitude of 0.12, followed by 0.10 and Barcelona and below 0.10 in the rest of Catalonia, Aragon, Navarra, the Basque Country, La Rioja, Cantabria, Asturias, north of Castilla y León, north of the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands.
The solar eclipse will begin at 11.33am in Barcelona and will last for exactly one hour and nine minutes.
The last partial eclipse visible from Spain took place on June 10 last year, and although there is another scheduled for October 2023, it will only be visible in some of the Canary Islands, and even then at a very low magnitude of 0.07.
We will therefore have to wait until March 29, 2025 to see a partial eclipse from all over the country, while the next total solar eclipse will take place on August 12, 2026.
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