Municipalities in Teruel within the path of totality

Observation guide

With 236 municipalities inside the band, Teruel offered one of the widest stretches of total eclipse anywhere in Spain, and the provincial capital was included. Bañón set the local ceiling at 1m 42s of totality. Most of the best figures gathered in the north-east quadrant, between the old mining basins and the Maestrazgo, a region of broken relief and very scattered settlement. For seeing totality, though, what decided the outcome was not background darkness but how clean the horizon was.

Alcaine headed the index on 84.3 points, followed by Estercuel and Oliete on 84.1 and by Bordón and Ejulve on 83.9. All of them sat near the hundred-second mark for the total phase, and their edge came from the sky: historical clear-sky averages between 57.3 and 60.2 percent, among the highest found anywhere in the inland section of the track. Across the province the mean is 54.3 percent, ranging from 45.9 to 61.4 percent, so almost any Teruel location started from favourable statistics.

At maximum the Sun stood five to six degrees above the horizon. In country this mountainous that turned the choice of site into the deciding factor: without an unobstructed view to the west-northwest, a badly placed ridge cost people totality even under a flawless sky. The cloud figures quoted here are averages for the 1996 to 2025 period and describe no single evening. Spain's next totality comes on 2 August 2027, yet its band is confined to Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla, so Teruel does not repeat.