The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Llucmajor (Illes Balears)

In Llucmajor the Sun stood two degrees above the horizon at maximum, the lowest value anywhere on the Spanish path and one found only in the Balearics, and the municipality still came second in the archipelago on 84 points. The explanation lies in the ground: from the 108 metres of the Llucmajor coastal plain the terrain model found 2.2 degrees of margin, meaning practically no appreciable obstacle along the western skyline. Where there is no mountain, two degrees are enough. To that it added 96 seconds of totality, between 20:31:02 and 20:32:38, and 63.7 % of clear days in the thirty-year record. Its climate profile is also among the driest of the Mallorcan group: measurable rain was recorded on that date in only 14.1 % of years, with 21.5 % mean cloud cover. None of those numbers anticipated the weather of that evening; they describe the average 12 August between 1996 and 2025.