The Atlas Obscura Guide to the 2027 Total Solar Eclipse

When and where: the path of the August 2, 2027 eclipse On August 2, 2027, the Moon's shadow will cross southern Spain, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. Near Luxor, in the Nile Valley, totality will last six minutes and twenty-three seconds. That number is the whole story. Most total solar eclipses give you two or three minutes. The celebrated North American eclipse of 2024 managed four and a half at its very best. Six minutes and twenty-three seconds is the longest totality available on easily accessible land until the year 2114 — eighty-seven years from now, which for most readers of

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