The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Somosierra (Madrid)

At 1,589 metres, Somosierra was the highest municipality the band left inside the Madrid region and the one recording the region's longest totality, 1m 29s. The pass also gave it a horizon margin of 8.4 degrees, an unusual value in the Madrid sierra, where its neighbours ranged from 0.3 to 6. And yet the index left it third, on 74.9 points, because of the chapter that altitude punishes: 41.7 % of clear days for the date, the regional minimum, with the highest mean cloud cover of the top five and measurable rain in 30.6 % of years. The most eloquent contrast lay 3.7 kilometres away: Robregordo, on the same sky statistics and 1m 26s of totality, had a margin of 0.3 degrees and was held to 47.9 points, on the very edge of seeing nothing. 1996-2025 climate series. The dark phase ran from 20:30:23 to 20:31:52, and the Sun did not set until 21:17:19, still eclipsed.