Six minutes of night, in the middle of the day.
On 2 August 2027 the Moon's shadow crosses from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Near Luxor, totality lasts up to 6m 23s — the longest remaining this century — and 88.9 million people live inside the path. The only question that matters: where should you stand? Not every list you will read gets that right — two cities widely published as totality never go dark at all.
2 August 2027
Eclipse day approaches
Static visibility map — the printable version
Where will you watch it?
Full-screen map →Tap any point on the path — totality duration, local timings and sun altitude, computed live from NASA's numbers. Pin your spot if you like. No account, five seconds.
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Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, click to choose a point. Dashed line: computed centre line of totality. Gold dots: pins from other visitors.
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Pin this spot
Optional, public, anonymous. Your pin stores this point (rounded to ~1 km) and, only if you add them, a name and note.
Would you travel to Spain for it?
Southern Spain is where most of Europe will stand on 2 August 2027 — up to ~3 minutes of totality on the Cádiz–Tarifa coast, the continent's best August skies, and rooms that will be gone a year out. If Spain is even a maybe for you, leave an address: you'll get the Spain-specific notes — when coastal accommodation starts filling, the exact stretch of coast to book, and nothing else.
Stored on our own server with a "Spain" tag, never sold or shared — privacy. Not sure yet? The southern Spain guide makes the case.
A note before totality
2 August 2027 is still a year away, and the good places book out long before it. Leave an address and you get a handful of emails in total: when accommodation in the path starts filling, when the cloud climatology for the week firms up, and a reminder in the final month. Nothing else, and you can stop any time.
One address, stored on our own server, never sold or shared. See privacy.
The comparison
Duration is what everyone optimises; August cloud is what actually decides; the effort score is what your passport and patience decide. Sort all three, or tap a preset — the point is not the numbers but the choice they force. Durations come from NASA's Besselian elements (methodology), which is table stakes; what the table adds is cloud, access and risk in the same row, so a long duration you cannot reach or cannot see stops looking like a winner.
| Location | Totality | Aug cloud | Effort | Getting there | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇬 Luxor Egypt | 6m 20s | ≈1% | 2 / 5 | Luxor (LXR), direct international charters + Cairo connections | check advisories |
| 🇱🇾 Benghazi Libya | 6m 09s | ≈3% | 5 / 5 | Benina (BEN), limited international links | do not plan casually |
| 🇸🇦 Jeddah Saudi Arabia | 5m 56s | ≈4% | 2 / 5 | King Abdulaziz (JED), major international hub | standard travel |
| 🇹🇳 Kerkennah Islands Tunisia | 5m 38s | — | 3 / 5 | Sfax (SFA) + ~1h ferry | standard travel |
| 🇪🇬 Siwa Oasis Egypt | 5m 29s | ≈2% | 4 / 5 | No airport; ~5h drive from Marsa Matruh, ~9h from Cairo | check advisories |
| 🇲🇦 Tangier Morocco | 4m 50s | — | 2 / 5 | Tangier Ibn Battouta (TNG) | standard travel |
| 🇲🇦 Tétouan Morocco | 4m 50s | — | 3 / 5 | Tétouan (TTU); Tangier ~60 km | standard travel |
| 🇪🇸 Tarifa Spain | 4m 39s | ≈26% | 2 / 5 | Gibraltar (GIB) ~45 km; Jerez (XRY) ~100 km | standard travel |
| 🇪🇸 Melilla Spain (North Africa) | 4m 33s | ≈39% | 2 / 5 | Melilla (MLN) | standard travel |
| 🇬🇮 Gibraltar Gibraltar (UK) | 4m 27s | ≈26% | 2 / 5 | Gibraltar (GIB) on-site | standard travel |
| 🇪🇸 Cádiz Spain | 2m 54s | ≈12% | 1 / 5 | Jerez (XRY) ~40 km; Seville (SVQ) ~120 km | standard travel |
| 🇹🇳 Tozeur Tunisia | 1m 42s | — | 3 / 5 | Tozeur–Nefta (TOE) | standard travel |
| 🇾🇪 Aden Yemen | partial only | — | 5 / 5 | — | do not plan casually |
| 🇸🇴 Berbera Somalia (Somaliland) | partial only | — | 5 / 5 | Berbera (BBO), minimal links | do not plan casually |
Where the popular lists are wrong
Computing a duration for a coordinate is not hard, and the good tools all do it. What is easy to get wrong is the edge of the path — and a city on the wrong side of that edge never goes dark, however long the table says. Two that circulate as 2027 totality destinations:
Both were caught by running the geometry ourselves rather than copying a path list (how). That is the job here: check the shadow, then weigh August cloud, access and travel risk into one answer — where to stand, where not to go, what to book and when.
Feel the difference
Bar length = seconds of totality. Tozeur and Luxor are in the same shadow, three hundred kilometres and five minutes apart.
Scale top: NASA greatest duration 6m 23.2s. Durations computed from NASA Besselian elements and validated against published tables (method). Aden and Berbera are absent because the umbra misses them — partial only.