Municipalities in Castelló/Castellón within the path of totality

Observation guide

Castellón brought together an unusual combination: 135 municipalities inside the path of totality, the provincial capital among them, and one of the most favourable summer climates along the entire mainland band. The longest totality was found well inland, at Portell de Morella, where the Sun stayed hidden for 101 seconds, a minute and 41 seconds. Between the coastal plain and the uplands of the Maestrazgo the province offered strikingly different settings for the same event, and in most of them the duration comfortably cleared a minute and a half.

Torreblanca topped the observation index at 85.2, the highest score across this group of provinces, built on 99 seconds of totality plus a 64.1 % historical clear-sky record. Behind it came Forcall (84.1), Zorita del Maestrazgo (84.1) and la Mata de Morella (83.8), all inland, all at 99 or 100 seconds with clear-sky figures between 58 % and 60 %. Castelló de la Plana joined the leading group at 84.0: it gave up a few seconds, settling at 93, but posted the best sky of the five at 67.2 %.

The number that governed everything else was solar altitude, just 4 to 5 degrees above the horizon. On the coast that meant looking inland rather than out to sea, because the Sun went down towards west-northwest, precisely where the interior relief rises, and anyone standing at the foot of the ranges lost the end of the event. The province's strong clear-sky numbers, from 50.3 % to 70.6 % with a 59.7 % average, are thirty years of history spanning 1996 to 2025, not a record of that afternoon. The 2 August 2027 total eclipse, the next one over Spain, touches only Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla.