The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Ciruelos del Pinar (Guadalajara)

What sets Ciruelos del Pinar apart is not counted in seconds but in degrees. The terrain model credited it with 6.6 degrees of clearance above the western horizon, and the Sun sat 7 degrees up at maximum. In practice: the skyline in front of it rose barely half a degree, near enough to a tabletop. The site's index does not reward that, because it saturates the component at 2 degrees and calls anything beyond it good enough; on the ground, though, the gap between 2 and 6.6 degrees is what separates a relaxed session from a nervous one.

With 101 seconds of totality, from 20:30:10 to 20:31:51, it came tenth in duration among the 288 municipalities inside the band and third in the index. It was helped by a 1996-2025 series that credits it with 55.5% of 12 Augusts under open sky, above the provincial median. At 1,281 metres and with an average minimum of 14.6 degrees, it is one of the cool corners of the province. At 21:11:38 the Sun left through the west with the Moon still on it.