Municipalities in La Rioja within the path of totality

Observation guide

Almost the whole of La Rioja slipped under the shadow, with 174 municipalities inside the path and Logroño among them. The longest totality fell at Canales de la Sierra, in the upper Najerilla, at 101 seconds, one minute forty-one. The province posed an unusual dilemma, though, because its two key variables pulled in opposite directions. The longest durations sat in the southwestern sierras, while the historical odds of a clear sky improve as you move southeast, towards the Alhama.

The index captured that tug of war as a dead heat. Aguilar del Río Alhama and Viniegra de Arriba tie at 78.6 by opposite routes. The first gave up eight seconds, 92 against 100, but leaned on a 50.4 % clear-sky rate, the strongest of the five. The second maximised duration on a much thinner 40.9 %. Behind them, Villavelayo (77.8), Viniegra de Abajo (77.6) and Canales de la Sierra (77.5) all bet on the clock, holding 99 to 101 seconds while their sky figures slide as low as 36 %.

With the Sun only 7 to 8 degrees above the horizon, La Rioja's terrain forced some planning. In the southwestern mountain valleys, where the best durations lay, the slopes blocked the western sky outright, and those who saw it did so from a rise or a hollow that opened towards west-northwest. The 37.6 % provincial average conceals a wide spread, 20 % to 50.9 % by municipality, and condenses three decades of records from 1996 to 2025: climate background, never a report of that evening. The next total eclipse, on 2 August 2027, leaves La Rioja out; its path crosses only Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla.