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

Observation guide

Manilva and Casarabonela sit sixty-three kilometres apart and 217 seconds apart. The first will see 227 seconds of totality on 2 August 2027; the second, ten, the shortest figure among the 105 municipalities that fall inside the total phase. Málaga contributes 55 of them, more than any other province, and that is where its peculiarity lies: one territory holds both the long stretch of the western coast and the edge where the shadow barely grazes. Twenty-three Málaga towns will pass 150 seconds and eighteen will not reach one hundred.

The divide runs southwest to northeast. In the corner formed by Manilva, Estepona and Casares, at 227, 216 and 211 seconds, the path arrives almost head-on. In the Axarquía, already at the rim, Sayalonga gets 27 seconds and Benamocarra 42. The provincial capital is inside the path with 109 seconds and maximum at 10:48:56. Leading the province is Casares, third nationally at 87.1 points, because it adds to those 211 seconds a 90 % record of clean sky at the hour of maximum.

The sky, by contrast, separates very little: no municipality drops below 83.3 % or rises above 93.3 % of clear days between 10:00 and 11:00. What orders the province is duration and, after that, how much open ground lies to the west, where the umbra comes from. Nerja will have the longest sightline in the country along that bearing, 75 kilometres, while twenty-one Málaga municipalities have theirs blocked within a thousand metres. Those percentages summarise thirty 2 Augusts measured between 1996 and 2025: they describe a habit, not the sky of 2027.

What Málaga will see on August 2, 2027

55 of the 105 Spanish municipalities inside the path of totality are in Málaga, 52 % of the total. Totality will last between 10s and 3m 47s depending on where you stand: Manilva sits at the long end of that range and Casarabonela at the short one.

Maximum eclipse sweeps the province between 10:47:48 and 10:49:35 mainland Spanish time, with the Sun between 38° and 40° above the horizon. The path of totality is about 238 km wide here, and the municipalities of Málaga fall between 72 and 119 km from its centre line.

The mid-morning sky over Málaga

In the 10:00-11:00 window, the hour that brackets maximum, the 1996-2025 series puts the municipalities of Málaga between 83.3 % and 93.3 % of years with a clear sky. Algatocín sits at the top of that range and Vélez-Málaga at the bottom.

Watch the detail that changes the reading: in 10 of these municipalities the eclipse window comes out clearly worse than the whole-day average, because mid-morning the low cloud off the Strait and the coast has not burned off yet. The sharpest case in the province is Casares, which drops from 96.7 % clear days on the daily average to 90.0 % in the hour of the eclipse. That is why every page on this site publishes the window figure and not the daily one.

The best placed towns in Málaga

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 Málaga it is led by Casares with 87.1 out of 100, ahead of Gaucín (85.4) and Marbella (83.3).

The provincial mean is 63.1 points, against 65.9 for the median of the path. Málaga 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.

Málaga against the rest of the path

Of the 6 provinces and autonomous cities the path crosses, Málaga ranks first by number of municipalities in totality, fourth by maximum duration and first 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 Málaga the gap between the best and worst scoring municipality is 58.2 index points, and between the clearest and cloudiest at eclipse time 10.0 percentage points. That spread is what you stand to gain by choosing well within the province itself, without changing region or coast.