Municipalities in València/Valencia within the path of totality

Observation guide

No stretch of the eclipse track carried better sky statistics than the northern edge of Valencia province, where Benavites and Quartell both post a 75.7 percent historical clear-sky rate during the eclipse window. The province placed 132 municipalities inside totality, the city of Valencia among them, while the longest total phase occurred at the opposite end of the territory: Castielfabib, north of the Rincón de Ademuz enclave, at 1m 24s.

That pairing shaped the index. Benavites took first place with 82.5 points and 1m 22s, Quartell followed on 82.2 with 1m 21s, and Canet d'En Berenguer, Algímia d'Alfara and Quart de les Valls all cleared eighty points on historical clear-sky rates between 71.8 and 75.7 percent. Totality ran shorter here than on the Castilian plateau, but the statistical odds of actually seeing it ranked among the best on the entire track, with a provincial average of 68.5 percent.

Sun altitude at maximum fell between four and six degrees, among the lowest anywhere along the path. On the Valencian coast the land drops eastwards towards the sea, so the obstruction sat behind you: the inland ranges to the west-northwest blocked the view from a great many beaches and terraces. That 68.5 percent condenses thirty years of data from 1996 to 2025 and says nothing about the sky of 12 August. Spain's next total eclipse, on 2 August 2027, covers Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla only.