Solar Eclipse in Egypt on August 2nd 2027

On August 2nd 2027, Egypt is going to be the best place to witness one of the longest total solar eclipses in our history! Luxor, Hurghada and Marsa Alam are on the line that will be among the best places in the world to appreciate this extremely rare event.

The maximum duration of totality will be observed in Egypt, approximately 37 miles (60 km) southeast of Luxor and will last 6 minutes and 22 seconds! This is where the ‘greatest eclipse’ will be occurring.

A Nile cruise would be perfect, although, maybe just relaxing in a hotel in Luxor or even on a beach on the Red Sea would be just as good. Sharm, Cairo and other places in Egypt will be excellent vantage points too. The chances of a clear sky in Egypt in August are also very high, so no one should be disappointed with visibility. Just ask those that crammed in to Cornwall in 1999 when we had a solar eclipse in the UK, only for it to be mainly cloudy!

Totality will commence over the eastern Atlantic Ocean and travel across the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco, and continue across parts of North Africa and the Middle East. Also, It will be visible in Central Asia, Indian Ocean Islands.

Major cities and locations under the path of totality will include:
Cadiz and Málaga, in southern Spain
Gibraltar
Tangier, Morocco
Oran, Algeria
Sfax, Tunisia
Benghazi, Libya
Luxor in central Egypt
Jeddah and Mecca in southwest Saudi Arabia
Sana’a in western Yemen
The tip of the Horn of Africa in extreme northeast Somalia
Islands in the British Indian Ocean Territory

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