Overview
- The partial eclipse will occur on Wednesday, August 12, with UK visibility from about 6:17pm to 8:06pm and local peaks between roughly 7:02pm and 7:16pm depending on location.
- Western England and southwest Wales will get the deepest coverage, with places in Devon, Cornwall and Pembrokeshire seeing about 94–96 percent of the Sun obscured.
- Health bodies and observatories say never to look at the Sun without ISO 12312‑2 certified eclipse glasses or a solar telescope with proper filters and list pinhole projectors, colanders or official livestreams as safe alternatives.
- Local astronomy groups and observatories are running supervised public viewings that often provide certified glasses and telescopes, while retailers report stock shortages and Octopus Energy is running a time‑limited customer promotion that requires enrollment in its loyalty programmes to qualify.
- Totality will occur only along a narrow path across Greenland, Iceland and parts of Spain and Portugal, weather and the low westward Sun will strongly affect UK visibility, and multiple scientific teams and broadcasters will offer livestreams as a weather‑insured option.