Solar eclipse · Monday 2 August 2027 · Marsa Alam, Egypt

Total eclipse in Marsa Alam, 2 August 2027

The Sun will be completely hidden for 5 min 26 s, from 13:08:08 to 13:13:34 (local time in Cairo). At maximum, at 13:10:51, it will stand 81° above the horizon, towards the south-west.

The path near you

Marsa Alam lies inside the path of totality, 59 km from its nearest edge, towards the north-east. Beyond that line the Sun is only partly hidden. The centre line, where the eclipse lasts longest, runs 66 km further towards the south-west.

The times, for Marsa Alam

Phase	Local time	UT	Sun's altitudealt.
First contact — the Moon touches the Sun	11:45:58	08:45:58	74°
Totality begins	13:08:08	10:08:08	81°
Maximum	13:10:51	10:10:51	81°
Totality ends	13:13:34	10:13:34	80°
Last contact — the Moon leaves the Sun	14:31:09	11:31:09	65°

Duration of totality5 min 26 s
Total duration2 h 45 min
Share of the Sun covered100%
Magnitude1.019
Sun's altitude at maximum81°

What you will see

Maximum as seen from Marsa Alam, 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 13:08:08, the last sliver of Sun goes out. For 5 min 26 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 13:13:34.

The partial phase ends at 14:31:09.

How to look without burning your eyes →

Where these figures come from

Times and geometry computed by Novilune for the point 25.0700° N, 34.8938° E (altitude 8 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 Cairo (UT +03:00).

In the app

Novilune draws this eclipse as it will be seen from Marsa Alam — 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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Also computed for this eclipse