The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Urduña/Orduña (Bizkaia)
Bizkaia
Within the path of totalityOne second off the provincial top spot, and with the most compromised horizon on this entire list. Urduna/Orduna spent 65 seconds inside the shadow, from 20:27:27 to 20:28:32, against Lanestosa's 66, but its terrain clearance came to exactly 2.0 degrees: the minimum value the model treats as sufficient before saturating the component. Put another way, the index awarded it full horizon marks by a whisker, when in practice two degrees under a Sun at eight means the western relief was eating three quarters of the available height.
Its position also makes it an outlier within the province: almost a quarter of a degree of latitude below the rest of the Biscayan municipalities with totality, detached from the Encartaciones block. That cost it on the clock too: it was the first of the six Biscayan entries here to lose the Sun, at 21:18:51, with the eclipse still in progress. Its sky record, 18.2% of open sky in the 1996-2025 register, is the territory's usual figure and not that of the day itself.
Official timings (IGN)
| Moment | Time (CEST) |
|---|---|
| Eclipse begins (C1) | 19:32:10 |
| Totality begins (C2) | 20:27:27 |
| Eclipse maximum | 20:28:00 |
| Totality ends (C3) | 20:28:32 |
| Sunset | 21:18:51 |
| Duration of totality | 1m 5s |
| Magnitude | 1.03 |
| Sun altitude | 8° |
| Sun azimuth | 283° |
In Urduña/Orduña the Sun set at 21:18:51, still eclipsed: the eclipse did not reach its astronomical end (C4) before sunset.
Source: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN, Spain).Score for this municipality: 59/100
score = 100·(0.40·duration_norm + 0.30·horizon + 0.30·weather). Duration normalized over 110s (maximum in Spain); horizon margin over 2° (solar radius + safety margin).
Historical climate (1996-2025)
- Clear days (30-year average)
- 18.2%
- Average cloud cover
- 58.1%
- Average high temperature
- 24.4°C
- Average low temperature
- 15.5°C
- Years with rain
- 56.8%
- Altitude
- 413 m
30-year statistical estimate (1996-2025) for 12 August, not a weather forecast for the event.
Nearby towns within totality
- Amurrio20:27:54 · 1m 1s
- Junta de Villalba de Losa20:28:07 · 1m 11s
- Ayala/Aiara20:27:52 · 1m 0s
- Urkabustaiz20:28:03 · 1m 3s
- Berberana20:28:08 · 1m 12s
- Kuartango20:28:11 · 1m 9s
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