The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Baños de Ebro/Mañueta (Araba/Álava)

Provincial maximum for duration at 83 seconds, tied with Elciego and Labastida, Baños de Ebro/Mañueta also brings the cleanest horizon in the Rioja Alavesa alongside Villabuena: barely 0.7 degrees of terrain in the way, leaving 7.3 of the Sun's 8 degrees of altitude clear.

In a province where the ground decided so many entries, here the ground was not the issue. The cloud was. Its 27.4 per cent clear days for the date across 1996-2025 falls twelve points below Lapuebla de Labarca's 39.7 per cent, 9.1 kilometres downriver, and that statistical distance is exactly what pushed it to third place in the index, 68.4 against the leader's 71.7, despite holding one extra second of totality. At 449 metres of average elevation, with the total phase between 20:27:59 and 20:29:22, the astronomical file was as good as Álava got; the climate file was not. And none of those numbers say what was actually seen.