The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Freginals (Tarragona)

The margin at Freginals was razor-thin, though not in the usual sense: a little over twenty-nine minutes separated eclipse maximum, at 20:30:48, from sunset at 21:00:01. Everything happened in the last stretch of an afternoon that had begun to dim at 19:36:15. Into that window fitted 95 seconds of totality, the fifth longest time in the province, just three seconds behind the maximum measured at La Sénia.

This is not coastal ground: the village stands at 137 metres above the Montsià plain, high enough to open the view a little without climbing into the sierra, and the model assigned it 2.6 degrees of clearance under a Sun at 5, an azimuth of 286 degrees pointing it west-north-west. Its 55.1 % clear-sky rate over the thirty-summer series ranks eleventh in the province. With 81.1 points it took fourth place in the index, in a dead heat with Godall, Ulldecona and Amposta. That percentage summarises thirty Augusts and not the one in question.