The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Encinas de Esgueva (Valladolid)
Valladolid
Within the path of totalityOne second settled the province. Encinas de Esgueva topped Valladolid's observing index on 83.1 points thanks to 101 seconds of totality, one more than Canillas de Esgueva, 3.8 kilometres away, and Fombellida, 7.7 kilometres off, and to 54.6% of that date clear in the three-decade record running to 2025.
That second placed it seventh among the 225 Valladolid municipalities under the shadow, in a province whose maximum was 103 seconds and whose median was 87. Its elevated position helped: at 866 metres it is the sixteenth highest point of the 225, and from there it kept 8.2 degrees of headroom over the west-northwest terrain, with the Sun itself only eight degrees up at maximum. Totality ran between 20:29:23 and 20:31:04, after a partial phase of 55 minutes and 6 seconds; the Sun lingered another 49 and a half minutes above the horizon, until 21:20:40, without the partial phase ever closing before it set.
Official timings (IGN)
| Moment | Time (CEST) |
|---|---|
| Eclipse begins (C1) | 19:34:17 |
| Totality begins (C2) | 20:29:23 |
| Eclipse maximum | 20:30:14 |
| Totality ends (C3) | 20:31:04 |
| Sunset | 21:20:40 |
| Duration of totality | 1m 41s |
| Magnitude | 1.03 |
| Sun altitude | 8° |
| Sun azimuth | 283° |
In Encinas de Esgueva the Sun set at 21:20:40, still eclipsed: the eclipse did not reach its astronomical end (C4) before sunset.
Source: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN, Spain).Score for this municipality: 83/100
score = 100·(0.40·duration_norm + 0.30·horizon + 0.30·weather). Duration normalized over 110s (maximum in Spain); horizon margin over 2° (solar radius + safety margin).
Historical climate (1996-2025)
- Clear days (30-year average)
- 54.6%
- Average cloud cover
- 32.7%
- Average high temperature
- 28.7°C
- Average low temperature
- 15.3°C
- Years with rain
- 25%
- Altitude
- 866 m
30-year statistical estimate (1996-2025) for 12 August, not a weather forecast for the event.
Nearby towns within totality
- Canillas de Esgueva20:30:14 · 1m 40s
- Villaescusa de Roa20:30:15 · 1m 41s
- San Llorente20:30:20 · 1m 40s
- Piñel de Arriba20:30:19 · 1m 39s
- Fombellida20:30:15 · 1m 40s
- Castrillo de Don Juan20:30:10 · 1m 42s
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