The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Vila de Cruces (Pontevedra)

Vila de Cruces combined the best and the worst of the factors that decided this eclipse. On one side, the highest Sun of any of these pages: 12 degrees above the horizon at maximum, with 11.9 degrees of terrain clearance, a combination that turns relief into a non-problem. On the other, the weakest sky record of every municipality gathered here: only 17.8 in every hundred 12 Augusts between 1996 and 2025 arrived cloudless, with rain recorded on 50.3% of those thirty days.

A perfect horizon to observe from, in other words, and a likely cloud in front of it. The shadow held for 20 seconds, 20:29:00 to 20:29:20, the second figure of the three Pontevedra municipalities inside the band, behind Agolada's 35. The town sits at 481 metres, and the eclipse closed completely at 21:22:42, the Sun still clear of the horizon. That 17.8% describes thirty years of climate and licenses no claim about the sky on that particular evening.