Solar eclipse · Monday 2 August 2027 · Kairouan, Tunisia

Total eclipse in Kairouan, 2 August 2027

The Sun will be completely hidden for 2 min 45 s, from 10:08:52 to 10:11:37 (local time in Tunis). At maximum, at 10:10:14, it will stand 55° above the horizon, towards the east-south-east.

The path near you

Kairouan lies inside the path of totality, 15 km from its nearest edge, towards the north-north-east. Beyond that line the Sun is only partly hidden. The centre line, where the eclipse lasts longest, runs 108 km further towards the south-south-west.

The times, for Kairouan

Phase	Local time	UT	Sun's altitudealt.
First contact — the Moon touches the Sun	08:55:47	07:55:47	40°
Totality begins	10:08:52	09:08:52	55°
Maximum	10:10:14	09:10:14	55°
Totality ends	10:11:37	09:11:37	55°
Last contact — the Moon leaves the Sun	11:29:39	10:29:39	68°

Duration of totality2 min 45 s
Total duration2 h 33 min
Share of the Sun covered100%
Magnitude1.005
Sun's altitude at maximum55°

What you will see

Maximum as seen from Kairouan, drawn by Novilune.

For a little over an hour, the Moon slowly bites into the Sun: to the naked eye nothing changes until more than three quarters of the disc are covered. Then the light drops quickly, shadows sharpen, the temperature falls.

At 10:08:52, the last sliver of Sun goes out. For 2 min 45 s you may look without protection: the corona appears around the black disc of the Moon, the brightest planets come out, the horizon takes on twilight colours all around. It is the only moment when eclipse glasses come off — and they go back on the instant the first ray returns, at 10:11:37.

The partial phase ends at 11:29:39.

How to look without burning your eyes →

Where these figures come from

Times and geometry computed by Novilune for the point 35.6710° N, 10.1006° E (altitude 62 m), from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE441 ephemeris, with ΔT = 69.2 s. The uncertainty on ΔT (± 5 s) shifts all the times together by a few seconds at most; atmospheric refraction is not applied (it does not change the contact times appreciably at this altitude of the Sun).

Times are given in local time in Tunis (UT +01:00).

In the app

Novilune draws this eclipse as it will be seen from Kairouan — the two discs at maximum, the Moon's path, the map of the path of totality — and does the same for every new moon from 2000 BC to AD 3000, for any place on Earth, offline.

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