Municipalities in Soria within the path of totality

Observation guide

One minute and forty-five seconds was how long totality lasted at Alcubilla de Avellaneda, the best figure anywhere in Soria. The province contributed 183 municipalities to the path and the capital was one of them. The strongest numbers split between the country north of the Duero, where Alcubilla sits, and the south-eastern strip along the Zaragoza border, where Monteagudo de las Vicarías, Cihuela and Fuentelmonge all landed around 1m 43s. The shadow crossed this province with unusual room to spare.

The index left an extremely tight leading group. Monteagudo de las Vicarías scored 84.2 points, while Alcubilla de Avellaneda, Viana de Duero, Cihuela and Fuentelmonge sat between 84.1 and 84.0. Both favourable variables lined up there: totalities of 1m 43s to 1m 45s and historical clear-sky averages of 53 to 56 percent. The provincial mean is 50.5 percent, but the spread runs from 37.6 to 56 percent, so comparing Soria's municipalities one against another paid off rather than assuming uniformity.

At maximum the Sun sat seven to eight degrees above the horizon, lower than in the north-western half of the track. In practice the Iberian range and its flat-topped mesas intruded easily, which is why a clean west-northwest horizon mattered more than comfort or ease of access when picking a site. The clear-sky percentages used here are thirty-year averages covering 1996 to 2025 and say nothing about the weather of that day. Spain's next totality falls on 2 August 2027 and is shared out among Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla alone.