Solar eclipse · Wednesday 26 January 2028 · Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Annular eclipse in Gibraltar, 26 January 2028

The Moon, slightly too small to cover the Sun, will leave a ring of it for 4 min 01 s, from 17:54:32 to 17:58:34 (local time in Gibraltar). At maximum, at 17:56:32, the Sun will stand 7° above the horizon, towards the west-south-west.

The path near you

Gibraltar lies inside the path of annularity, 27 km from its nearest edge, towards the south-south-east. Beyond that line the ring no longer closes. The centre line, where the ring lasts longest, runs 147 km further towards the north-north-west.

The times, for Gibraltar

Phase	Local time	UT	Sun's altitudealt.
First contact — the Moon touches the Sun	16:35:18	15:35:18	20°
Annularity begins	17:54:32	16:54:32	8°
Maximum	17:56:32	16:56:32	7°
Annularity ends	17:58:34	16:58:34	7°
Last contact — the Moon leaves the Sun	19:08:07	18:08:07	below the horizon

Duration of annularity4 min 01 s
Total duration2 h 32 min
Share of the Sun covered83%
Magnitude0.917
Sun's altitude at maximum7°

What you will see

Maximum as seen from Gibraltar, drawn by Novilune.

Mind the altitude of the Sun: it will stand only 7° above the horizon, towards the west-south-west. You need a completely clear view that way — a hill, a building or a line of trees is enough to hide everything.

That day the Moon is slightly too far from the Earth to cover the whole Sun: at maximum it leaves a bright ring. The sky darkens noticeably but never becomes night, and eye protection remains necessary from start to finish, ring included.

The annular phase lasts 4 min 01 s, from 17:54:32 to 17:58:34; the partial phase ends at 19:08:07.

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Where these figures come from

Times and geometry computed by Novilune for the point 36.1408° N, 5.3536° W (altitude 23 m), from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE441 ephemeris, with ΔT = 69.3 s. The uncertainty on ΔT (± 6 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 Gibraltar (UT +01:00).

In the app

Novilune draws this eclipse as it will be seen from Gibraltar — 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