A total solar eclipse will occur over much of the central Eastern Hemisphere on Monday, August 2, 2027. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.

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. Major cities and locations under the path of totality will include:^[1]

• Cadiz and Malaga, 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

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.^[2]

A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the extreme east tip of Maine, United States, far eastern Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces in Canada, southern Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Great Britain, nearly the entirety of the European continent, all but the southern quarter of Africa, the Middle East, and from South and Southeast Asia.^[1]

It will be the first of three total solar eclipses that are observable in Tunisia in the 21st century, passing over the central part of the country.^[3] It will be the second total eclipse in Spain within less than a year (after August 2026). Furthermore, an annular eclipse will appear in Spain in January 2028, less than half a year afterwards. National eclipse committee has been established to coordinate eclipse-related activities.^[4]

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