The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Alhama de Aragón (Zaragoza)

What made Alhama de Aragón strong was not duration, which it shared with twenty other Zaragoza municipalities, but the gap in front of it. Its horizon margin of 6.2 degrees over the west-northwest profile ranked it 16th of the 277 municipalities in the province inside the band, in a territory whose worst case was Añón de Moncayo, 3.1 degrees in deficit and its Sun hidden behind the sierra before maximum.

The rest of the record follows suit. Totality lasted 103 seconds, from 20:29:37 to 20:31:20, matching the provincial ceiling; the statistics for thirty 12 August dates between 1996 and 2025 give 56.0% clear skies; and the observing index returned 84.3 points, the seventh best figure in Spain. The Sun set at 21:10:55, barely 39 and a half minutes after totality ended, with the partial phase still running. At 710 metres, in the Jalón corridor, the natural obstacle was not the mountain but August haze.