Municipalities in Guadalajara within the path of totality

Observation guide

Guadalajara sent 288 municipalities into the path of totality, a total only a handful of provinces beat, and the capital was one of them. The band covered a large share of the province and delivered competitive durations throughout: the maximum belonged to Algar de Mesa, on the eastern edge, at 103 seconds, a minute and 43 seconds of complete darkness. For anyone travelling out from Madrid, Guadalajara also happened to be the most direct route into the wide part of the band.

What stood out in the ranking was how tightly packed it was. The top five sat within three tenths of a point of each other. Algar de Mesa (83.7), Tartanedo (83.5), Ciruelos del Pinar (83.4), Fuentelsaz (83.4) and Maranchón (83.4) all belong to the Señorío de Molina area, with durations of 101 to 103 seconds and historical clear-sky records between 53 % and 55.9 %. In practice there was no single winner, just an entire district scoring well. Across the province the readings span 43.9 % to 60.7 %, averaging 53.5 %.

Solar altitude at maximum varied between 6 and 8 degrees depending on where you stood, a narrow margin that made terrain the final arbiter. On the high, treeless plateaus of the east the horizon was wide open and the west-northwest view clean; down in the gorges and valleys of the Alto Tajo, a single hillside hid the Sun at exactly the wrong moment. The 53.5 % clear-sky average is a thirty-year figure covering 1996 to 2025, useful for comparing districts and silent on that afternoon. Spain's next totality, on 2 August 2027, stops at Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla.