Towns in Granada inside the August 2, 2027 path of totality

Observation guide

The 2027 path only grazes Granada. It comes in off the sea, bites into the Costa Tropical and withdraws long before reaching the provincial capital: thirteen municipalities fall inside, all of them between Jete and Albuñol, and none will beat the 130 seconds of Torrenueva Costa. At the other end, Rubite gets eleven. It is the worst-placed province in the index, averaging 47.8 points against the 73.3 of Cádiz, and not because of the sky: totality here is simply short by geometry.

Within that narrow margin, what separates one town from the next is the gap to the west. Salobreña will have 103 seconds and Torrenueva Costa 130, eleven kilometres apart, and yet they score 48.6 and 68.3: the first has high ground four hundred metres away on exactly the bearing the shadow arrives from, while the second sees 34 clear kilometres. In five of the thirteen Granada municipalities the line of sight closes within the first thousand metres.

The Sun will stand 40 to 41 degrees up, the greatest height anywhere on the Spanish path; in 2026 it never got past twelve. No relief will hide it, so the difficulty is not seeing the Sun but seeing the shadow approach. Clear-sky records span 80 % to 86.7 % for mid-morning, and Albuñol is an oddity: it climbs from 73.3 % on the daily average to 86.7 % in that hour. These are thirty counted Augusts, 1996 to 2025, not the one in 2027.

What Granada will see on August 2, 2027

13 of the 105 Spanish municipalities inside the path of totality are in Granada, 12 % of the total. Totality will last between 11s and 2m 10s depending on where you stand: Torrenueva Costa sits at the long end of that range and Rubite at the short one.

Maximum eclipse sweeps the province between 10:49:49 and 10:50:25 mainland Spanish time, with the Sun between 40° and 41° above the horizon. The path of totality is about 238 km wide here, and the municipalities of Granada fall between 108 and 118 km from its centre line.

The mid-morning sky over Granada

In the 10:00-11:00 window, the hour that brackets maximum, the 1996-2025 series puts the municipalities of Granada between 80.0 % and 86.7 % of years with a clear sky. Albuñol sits at the top of that range and Torrenueva Costa at the bottom.

Here the eclipse window and the whole-day average tell much the same story, unlike the coast of the Strait, where morning low cloud drags the mid-morning figure down in several municipalities. Mean low cloud in that hour is around 1.6 %.

The best placed towns in Granada

The observing index combines duration, the sky in the window around maximum and the line of sight in the direction the shadow arrives from. In Granada it is led by Torrenueva Costa with 68.3 out of 100, ahead of Almuñécar (64.3) and Motril (61.9).

The provincial mean is 47.8 points, against 65.9 for the median of the path. Granada therefore sits below the path as a whole: choosing the right municipality matters more here than elsewhere.

The index ranks the path; it is not a forecast and it knows nothing about access or parking.

Granada against the rest of the path

Of the 6 provinces and autonomous cities the path crosses, Granada ranks third by number of municipalities in totality, fifth by maximum duration and third by percentage of years with clear skies at eclipse time.

The Spanish path as a whole gathers 105 municipalities across 6 provinces and autonomous cities, with the longest totality in Ceuta (4m 48s) and the shortest in Casarabonela (10s).

Inside Granada the gap between the best and worst scoring municipality is 34.2 index points, and between the clearest and cloudiest at eclipse time 6.7 percentage points. That spread is what you stand to gain by choosing well within the province itself, without changing region or coast.