Overview
- Authorities activated reinforcements on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, placing a reserve train at Chamartín and extra buses in Madrid to serve Sierra Norte and other observation sites.
- Catalonia deployed roughly 150 agents with two helicopters and Barcelona’s Guardia Urbana moved to an extended patrol shift from 14:00 to 00:00 to monitor Collserola, beaches and major viewpoints.
- Visibility is uncertain in parts of the north and Mediterranean coast because AEMET and model runs show a high risk of low cloud, prompting many people to change plans at the last minute.
- Experts and officials repeated clear safety rules: use ISO 12312-2 certified solar filters for all partial phases and remove them only during the brief seconds of totality inside the path.
- For those who cannot reach the narrow band of totality, national and international feeds from Yebes, Tortosa, Teruel, NASA, ESA and RTVE are broadcasting live while the brief totality — usually under two minutes in Spain — coincides with the Perseids meteor shower.