Overview
- The path of totality spans roughly 250 kilometers across the Atlantic, the Strait of Gibraltar, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, with the longest darkness near Luxor, Egypt.
- Totality will be observable from select locations including Luxor and Aswan in Egypt, Cádiz and Málaga in Spain, Tangier in Morocco, Oran in Algeria, Tunisia’s Kerkennah Islands and Tozeur, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, and parts of Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia.
- The partial phase begins around 08:00 UTC with totality starting shortly after 09:00 UTC depending on location, and the full phenomenon lasts more than three hours.
- NASA and JPL advise using ISO 12312-2 certified eclipse glasses or indirect viewing methods, with unaided viewing only during the brief window of complete totality within the path.
- The event is expected to draw significant eclipse tourism under typically favorable August skies in North Africa, while researchers plan coordinated studies including comparisons with data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.