Total eclipse · August 12, 2026

The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Urduña/Orduña (Bizkaia)

Bizkaia

Within the path of totality
20:27:27
Totality begins (C2)
20:28:00
Eclipse maximum
1m 5s
Duration of totality

One 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)

MomentTime (CEST)
Eclipse begins (C1)19:32:10
Totality begins (C2)20:27:27
Eclipse maximum20:28:00
Totality ends (C3)20:28:32
Sunset21:18:51
Duration of totality1m 5s
Magnitude1.03
Sun altitude
Sun azimuth283°

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.

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