The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona)

Ten seconds. It is the shortest totality of every entry in this batch, and with it Vilanova i la Geltrú marks exactly where the band ended in Catalonia: the shadow arrived at 20:29:30 and left at 20:29:40. Cubelles, 4.3 kilometres away, had 25 seconds; Castellet i la Gornal, 6.8 kilometres off, had 20. More than three seconds were lost for every kilometre north-eastwards, the steepest gradient among all the municipalities gathered here.

The rest of its file was reasonable: 65 metres of average elevation, 1.4 degrees of relief blocking the low Sun and 42.6 per cent mean clear-sky share between 1996 and 2025, practically the same as its two neighbours, alongside mean cloud cover of 36.4 per cent. None of that could offset a total phase of ten seconds, and the index left it third and last in Barcelona on 46.4 points. The Sun set at 20:56:19, twenty-seven minutes later, with the eclipse still unfinished.