Overview

• The total solar eclipse on August 2, 2027 will last up to 6 minutes 22 seconds, eclipsing any other in the 21st century.
• The Moon’s perigee will enlarge its apparent size, extending both the duration and width of the eclipse’s umbral path.
• A 258-kilometer-wide corridor of totality will traverse ten countries from Spain across Africa to Somalia.
• More than 57 percent of the global population will experience at least a partial eclipse, with the Americas entirely outside its visibility range.
• No other eclipse in this century will approach this duration until the year 2114, underlining its exceptional nature.