Totality vs Eclipseando

On 12 August 2026, the moon's shadow sweeps across Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain — the first total solar eclipse over mainland Europe since 1999. Inside a narrow band, day turns to night, stars come out, and the sun's corona blazes around a black moon. A few kilometres outside that band, none of it happens. Totality tells you precisely which side of that line you are standing on. POINT YOUR PHONE AT THE SKY An augmented-reality overlay draws the sun and moon onto the live view in front of you, with their paths, the horizon, and the compass laid over the real sky. You can see exactly where the eclipse will happen before it happens — and pick your spot accordingly. EXACT TIMES FOR EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE Eclipse circumstances are computed for your precise coordinates, not your city: • First contact, totality begins, maximum, totality ends, last contact — to the second • How much of the sun is covered, and for how long • The compass bearing to face, and how high the sun will sit THE LOW-SUN PROBLEM Over Spain the sun is only 3–12° above the horizon during totality — nearly setting. A hill, a tree line, or a building in the wrong direction will cost you the entire event. Totality shows you the bearing and the sun's height so you can find a clear horizon in advance, rather than discovering the problem on the day. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL Every calculation runs on your iPhone, offline, from a bundled astronomical ephemeris. In a field in Asturias with no bars, everything still works. This matters: the one moment the app is most needed is the moment you are least likely to have a connection. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Every feature works without signing in — including on eclipse day, with no signal. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL PASS The countdown, whether the eclipse is total where you stand, the coverage percentage and the AR sky view are free — always. The Eclipse Pass, a single $1.99 payment, unlocks the numbers you need on the day: contact times to the second, how long totality lasts, which way to face, and how high the sun will sit. ENGLISH AND SPANISH Fully localized end to end — Spain is in the path. SAFETY Never look at the sun without certified ISO 12312-2 eclipse glasses, except during the brief seconds of full totality. Totality helps you plan; it cannot protect your eyes. No subscription, no ads, no tracking, no analytics.

The total solar eclipse of August 12, 2026, town by town: your exact times, and whether it truly goes dark where you'll be. 9,255 towns across Spain, Portugal, Iceland, the UK, Ireland and four more countries, all calculated inside your phone, with no signal. WHAT IT TELLS YOU, IN THREE SECONDS · Whether it goes dark where you are, or only dims. No hedging. · First contact, maximum and end, in local time. · How many seconds totality lasts, if there is any. · How much of the Sun is covered, and how high it will be. DO I NEED TO TRAVEL? HOW FAR? Late in the day, with the Sun low, the Moon's shadow crosses mainland Spain and the Balearics, and half the country is left out. Destinations are ranked by what you gain, not by how close they are. The nearest town with totality usually buys you 12 seconds, which is nothing. From Madrid, El Molar is 28 km away and gets 61. From Seville, the nearest 60 seconds is 422 km away, and the app tells you not to go. STAYING IN MADRID OR BARCELONA? Madrid reaches 99.9%, Barcelona 99.8%, Seville and Málaga 94.7%. It does not go dark there, the corona never appears, and you must not look without a certified filter at any point. The gap between 99.9% and 100% is not 0.1%: it is seeing it or not seeing it. Half of Spain is in that position: 4,065 of its 8,131 towns get only a partial, a median of 99.3% of the Sun covered. And 99.3% is not "almost totality". It is a different thing. NOT IN SPAIN? Iceland, Ireland, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Portugal and Morocco are in the app too, town by town: total or partial, local time, coverage and Sun height. THE SUN WILL BE VERY LOW. CHOOSE YOUR SPOT A median of 7.1° above the horizon, and under 10° in 7,638 of Spain's 8,131 towns. At that height a three-story building 80 meters away hides the Sun completely. The app gives you that height in degrees for your town, to check against your own horizon with your own eyes. And something almost nobody mentions: in 6,494 towns the eclipse never ends, the Sun sets first. GLASSES AND SAFETY Never look at the Sun without a certified filter. The prompt to take it off appears only where there is totality and only while it lasts long enough to be real. Everywhere else the app says what has to be said: the filter does not come off at any point. THE CAMERA Photos come stamped with your town, the exact time and the percentage of the Sun covered. Video is recorded clean, and to share it the app makes the video card: one frame of your clip with the stamp already on it, instantly. Plus an automatic shutter for the minutes that matter, so you are not staring at a screen when you should be looking up. The filter warning stays in front, always. WHAT USES THE INTERNET, AND WHAT DOES NOT The eclipse does not. Times, map and all 9,255 towns are computed on the device, so a crowded hilltop with a jammed network changes nothing. One single thing needs a connection, and only if you open it: the cloud report, where people tap to say what is overhead and you see what the towns around you report. Nothing else leaves the phone. Your location, if you give it, stays on the device: only the town name is kept, and you can type it by hand. WHAT IS FREE, WHAT IS PAID Free: the times, the duration, the percentage, total or partial here, the filter warnings, the search, the widgets and the camera with its stamp. Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription: three develop presets made for eclipse light, your totality photos in a single strip, and the option to remove the stamp. FIND YOUR TOWN With its province next to it, because 17 names repeat. And under the names people actually use: type Ibiza, Gerona or San Sebastián and you get Eivissa, Girona and Donostia. DATA AND SOURCES Our own calculations with JPL DE440s ephemerides. Municipal boundaries from Spain's Instituto Geográfico Nacional (CC BY 4.0). Eclipseando is independent, not connected to any official body. Extended pages, maps and methodology at eclipseando.es.