The key point
The short version
The Moon takes its first bite at 09:41:06. Totality runs from 10:45:33 to 10:50:01, with the deepest point at 10:47:47. The last trace of the Moon leaves the Sun at 12:01:09. All times are local Gibraltar time (CEST), from timeanddate.com.
- First contact
- 09:41:06
- Totality
- 10:45:33
- It lasts
- 4 min 28 sec
- All over by
- 12:01:09
The morning, hour by hour
09:41:06
First contact
The Moon touches the edge of the Sun. Nothing about the day changes yet: through eclipse glasses there is a small notch in the disc, and almost nobody without them notices a thing.
10:15 or so
The light goes strange
With more than half the Sun covered, the daylight turns thin and silvery, shadows sharpen, and the temperature starts to ease. Gaps between leaves project little crescents onto the ground.
10:45:33
Second contact: totality
The last bead of sunlight breaks up and vanishes, and day switches off. Glasses come off. The corona stands around a black disc, bright planets and stars appear, and the horizon glows like sunset in every direction.
10:47:47
Maximum
The deepest point, magnitude 1.022. The middle of your four minutes and twenty-eight seconds.
10:50:01
Third contact: light returns
The diamond ring flashes on the far rim and the world relights itself in seconds. Glasses back on immediately: the returning crescent is as dangerous as the departing one.
12:01:09
Fourth contact
The Moon clears the Sun entirely. The whole event, first touch to last, has taken two hours and twenty minutes.
Reading the times
- All times are Gibraltar local time, CEST. If your phone is set to UK time it will show an hour earlier.
- timeanddate's calculations for the main contacts are accurate to within a few seconds, which is closer than anyone needs to be standing outside.
- Totality's length barely changes across Gibraltar: everywhere on the Rock gets its 4 minutes 28 seconds, give or take a second.
Now put a place to the time.
Europa Point, the Upper Rock, the marinas or the beaches: the viewing guide covers what each honestly offers.
What we read
Everything above traces to one of these. Where a rule is set by a government rather than by us, go to the primary source before you travel — we check this page on a schedule, not continuously.
- 2 August 2027 eclipse in Gibraltar, timed to the second · timeanddate.com