Solar Eclipse 2027 in Granada

Granada does not see a total eclipse on 2 August 2027. The city reaches 99.22% coverage, which is a spectacular partial eclipse and still not the same event. The northern limit of the path runs across the coast of Granada province, so the beaches an hour away get totality and the Alhambra does not.

Sierra Nevada, above the city, does no better: 99.47% at the Pradollano ski station, and still outside. Height does not help here, only latitude does.

What 99.22% actually looks like

It is worth being precise about this, because the number sounds like almost the whole thing. It is not.

• The sky stays blue. It dims noticeably, the way it does under heavy cloud, but it does not go dark.
• The corona does not appear. The remaining sliver of photosphere is thousands of times brighter than the corona and drowns it out completely.
• No stars or planets become visible.
• You must keep eclipse glasses on the entire time. There is no safe moment to look with the naked eye anywhere outside the path of totality.

What you do get is real and worth watching: a sun reduced to a thin crescent, a strange metallic quality to the light, sharpened shadows, crescent shapes projected through the leaves of trees, and a distinct drop in temperature. Just do not confuse it with totality.

If you are staying in Granada anyway

Plenty of people will be in Granada that week and unable to move on the day. The eclipse maximum is at 10:50:14, with the sun 40 degrees above the horizon to the east south east. The partial phases run from about 09:44 to 12:03.

Where to watch in the city

• Mirador de San Nicolas: in the Albaicín, the classic view of the Alhambra with Sierra Nevada behind. Faces the right way and will be crowded.
• Sacromonte: higher and quieter than San Nicolás, with the same open aspect.
• Parque Federico Garcia Lorca: shade and space for the two hours of partial phases.
• The Alhambra grounds: if you have a ticket for that morning, the Generalife gardens have open sky. Book months ahead as always.

Granada as a base

Granada is a sensible place to sleep even though it misses the eclipse. It has a large stock of hotels, an airport, a train station and a motorway to a coast that does get totality. Many visitors will do exactly this: stay in the city, drive down at first light, watch from the beach, come back in the afternoon. Expect the A-44 to be extremely busy in both directions.

Nearby

See it on the map Places with totality