The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Fontioso (Burgos)
Burgos
Within the path of totalityOne hundred and six seconds. That is the number that defined Fontioso: one of the 39 Burgos municipalities to reach it, 30th in its province and 113th among the 3,963 Spanish towns the umbra touched, a single second short of the provincial maximum.
The ground matched the duration. With 8.3 degrees separating the disc from the west-northwest skyline, the town ranked 42nd in the province, tied with Quintanilla de la Mata, 8.3 kilometres up the road, and at 960 metres it was the highest of the Burgos entries collected here. The only column where it gave ground was climate: its 52.6% open-sky rate for the date across the thirty-year sample is the lowest of the five Ribera and Arlanza towns in this archive, and its 34.2% mean cloud cover the highest of them, though both figures are still well ahead of the provincial average. Totality ran from 20:28:58 to 20:30:44 and the Sun did not set until 21:19:35.
Official timings (IGN)
| Moment | Time (CEST) |
|---|---|
| Eclipse begins (C1) | 19:33:59 |
| Totality begins (C2) | 20:28:58 |
| Eclipse maximum | 20:29:51 |
| Totality ends (C3) | 20:30:44 |
| Sunset | 21:19:35 |
| Duration of totality | 1m 46s |
| Magnitude | 1.03 |
| Sun altitude | 8° |
| Sun azimuth | 283° |
In Fontioso the Sun set at 21:19:35, still eclipsed: the eclipse did not reach its astronomical end (C4) before sunset.
Source: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN, Spain).Score for this municipality: 84/100
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)
- 52.6%
- Average cloud cover
- 34.2%
- Average high temperature
- 28.4°C
- Average low temperature
- 15.1°C
- Years with rain
- 33.2%
- Altitude
- 960 m
30-year statistical estimate (1996-2025) for 12 August, not a weather forecast for the event.
Nearby towns within totality
- Pineda Trasmonte20:29:54 · 1m 45s
- Cilleruelo de Abajo20:29:57 · 1m 45s
- Lerma20:29:43 · 1m 45s
- Bahabón de Esgueva20:29:59 · 1m 44s
- Cilleruelo de Arriba20:29:54 · 1m 45s
- Solarana20:29:47 · 1m 45s
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