The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Ortigueira (A Coruña)

Ortigueira is a good place to measure the shadow's speed inside a single province. Its totality began at 20:26:46; the city of A Coruña's, 58.7 kilometres to the south-west, at 20:27:35. Forty-nine seconds apart, and along that stretch the total phase shortened from 103 seconds to 76.

Third in the province for duration, four seconds behind Mañón, its neighbour 7.6 kilometres away, and fourth in the index with 70.3 points, Ortigueira also brings the lowest average elevation of the five that led the A Coruña table: 191 metres against Mañón's 364. Even so, the terrain in front of the Sun amounted to just 1.8 degrees. The weak spot is the one shared by the whole district: 9.4 per cent clear days at that hour in the 1996-2025 period, the second-lowest figure in the province tied with Monfero, and 62.3 per cent cloud cover. Three decades of statistics; of the real sky that day there is no record here.