Eclipse 2026: Solar Totality

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Will you actually see totality from where you will be standing on 12 August 2026? Most eclipse apps answer that with a computed guess. This one answers it with the data. Inside Spain, Eclipse publishes the verdict from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional for all 7,531 municipalities. That matters more than it sounds. A textbook calculation puts Madrid just inside the path of totality. The IGN puts it outside, at 99.90 percent. Madrid will not see totality, and an app that says otherwise will be proven wrong in public, on the day. WHAT YOU GET • A straight answer for your exact place. Total, partial, or right on the limit. When your location sits on the umbral limit, the app says so instead of guessing, and names the nearest town that does get totality. • Every contact time to the second. First contact, the start and end of totality, maximum, and last contact, in your own local time. • Which way to look. The Sun sits only 2 to 10 degrees above the horizon across Spain, around 283 degrees west-northwest. A single building or ridge will ruin it. A live compass points you at the right patch of sky. • Times clipped to sunset. Eight in ten Spanish municipalities lose the end of the eclipse below the horizon. In Madrid the Sun sets before last contact. Showing a time you cannot observe is worse than showing nothing. • Cloud cover for your spot, from Apple Weather, so you know whether to drive. • Alerts before each phase, scheduled on your device. • The full path map, with the centre line and both umbral limits. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL Everything except the cloud forecast runs entirely on your device. No account, no server, no connection. On eclipse day, when hundreds of thousands of people open their eclipse app in the same few minutes, that is the difference between an answer and a spinning wheel. NOTHING IS COLLECTED No tracking, no analytics, no account. Your location never leaves your phone. The only network request is Apple's own weather service. SAFETY FIRST Never look at the Sun without certified solar filters. The app opens with the safety rules and repeats them before every phase where the Sun is exposed. BUILT FOR MORE THAN ONE DAY The total eclipse of 2 August 2027 is already included. On 13 August 2026 the app moves to it on its own, with the right times, the right map and the right data, with no update needed. Data: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (CNIG), NASA/Fred Espenak, GeoNames.