Eclipse 2027 in Morocco: Tangier, Tetouan and the North Coast

Totality crosses northern Morocco early on the morning of 2 August 2027. Check your town’s times, now in GMT, and how long the Sun is covered.

Protect your eyes. Looking at the Sun during any partial phase, even when 99% of it is covered, can permanently damage your eyes. Use eclipse glasses or a handheld viewer that meets ISO 12312‑2, or project the Sun’s image. Only during totality, and only inside the path of totality, is it safe to look without them. Cameras, binoculars and telescopes need their own solar filter on the front; never look through them while wearing only eclipse glasses.

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Decimal degrees: south and west are negative. You can paste “36.0139, -5.6044” into Latitude. The time zone follows the nearest listed place until you change it.

08:47:08 GMT

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Tangier, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco

Total eclipse: 4 min 51 s of totality

Totality from 08:44:44 to 08:49:34 GMT (UTC+0), Monday 2 August 2027

EventLocal timeSun
Partial eclipse beginsFirst contact (C1)07:40:3724°, 85°
Totality beginsSecond contact (C2)08:44:4437°, 94°
Maximum eclipseGreatest eclipse08:47:0838°, 95°
Totality endsThird contact (C3)08:49:3438°, 95°
Partial eclipse endsFourth contact (C4)10:00:2652°, 109°

Times in GMT (UTC+0), the local time in Tangier. Sun: height above the horizon, then compass direction (azimuth, 90° = east, 180° = south).

Sun covered at maximum
100%
Magnitude
1.034
Sun at maximum
38° high in the east (azimuth 95°)
Whole eclipse
2 h 20 min

The centre line of the path is about 8 km to the south, where totality lasts 4 min 51 s.

Keep eclipse glasses on for the whole partial phase. Only between 08:44:44 and 08:49:34, when the Sun is completely covered, can you look without them. Put them back on at the first flash of sunlight.

Calculated in your browser from NASA’s Besselian elements for this eclipse (F. Espenak, NASA/GSFC), with ΔT = 69.35 s from IERS Bulletin A of 24 September 2026. Contact times are for sea level unless you enter a height, and the Moon’s uneven edge can shift them by a second or two. Tangier: 35.7673, -5.7998.

In Morocco the eclipse happens early in the morning of Monday 2 August 2027. The Moon first touches the Sun at about 07:41 in the north, totality sweeps across the Tangier–Tetouan region and the Rif between 08:44 and 08:53, and the partial eclipse is over by about 10:07. The page opens on Tangier; tap a town above, or enter the coordinates of your viewing spot.

Times are in GMT

All times on this page are Moroccan legal time, which has been GMT (UTC+0) since 20 September 2026, with no summer change. Eclipse tables published earlier often used GMT+1. If a phone, a camera or another website disagrees by exactly one hour, that is why. The simulator uses the offset in force on the day, fixed when the site is built, so a device that hasn’t updated its time zone data can’t shift it.

The southern edge of the path

The path’s southern limit crosses the Gharb plain and runs past Souk El Arbaa (about 1 min 38 s) and passes north of Taza (98.9%). Kenitra (99.2%), Rabat (98.5%), Fez (98.3%) and Meknes (97.9%) stay just outside, so visitors based there need to travel north for totality: from Rabat, Ksar El Kebir or Larache are the nearest towns with several minutes.

At the time of totality the Sun is 38° to 42° high in the east. Eclipse glasses stay on for the whole partial phase and come off only between the second and third contact times shown for your place.

Places in Morocco that see totality

Every listed town in Morocco inside the path, longest totality first. Totality times are to the second; the partial phase to the minute.

Total eclipse in Morocco, 2 August 2027, local time (GMT (UTC+0))
PlaceEclipseBeginsTotality or max.Ends
MdiqTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 53 s07:4108:45:14–08:50:0710:01
MartilTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 52 s07:4108:45:17–08:50:0910:01
GueznaiaTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 51 s07:4108:44:36–08:49:2710:00
TetouanTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 51 s07:4108:45:10–08:50:0110:01
TangierTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 51 s07:4108:44:44–08:49:3410:00
FnidekTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 50 s07:4108:45:17–08:50:0710:01
AzlaTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 50 s07:4108:45:19–08:50:0910:01
AsilahTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 44 s07:4008:44:24–08:49:0910:00
Beni EnzarOriental4 min 29 s07:4208:48:16–08:52:4510:05
Al HoceïmaTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 26 s07:4208:47:01–08:51:2710:04
TirhanimîneTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 23 s07:4208:47:01–08:51:2410:04
LaracheTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 18 s07:4008:44:23–08:48:4210:00
NadorOriental4 min 14 s07:4208:48:22–08:52:3610:05
ChefchaouenTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 13 s07:4108:45:29–08:49:4110:01
ZeghanghaneOriental4 min 12 s07:4208:48:17–08:52:2910:05
ImzourenTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 9 s07:4208:47:14–08:51:2310:04
Bni BouayachTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima4 min 1 s07:4208:47:18–08:51:1910:04
SelouaneOriental3 min 55 s07:4208:48:29–08:52:2410:05
Ben TaiebOriental3 min 48 s07:4208:47:53–08:51:4110:05
Ksar El KebirTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima3 min 42 s07:4008:44:55–08:48:3710:00
Al AarouiOriental3 min 40 s07:4208:48:31–08:52:1110:05
DriouchOriental3 min 30 s07:4208:48:07–08:51:3710:05
AhfirOriental3 min 28 s07:4308:49:48–08:53:1510:07
ZaïoOriental3 min 21 s07:4208:49:00–08:52:2210:06
MidarOriental3 min 19 s07:4208:48:00–08:51:1910:04
BerkaneOriental3 min 16 s07:4308:49:36–08:52:5110:07
Sidi Slimane EchcharaaOriental3 min 12 s07:4308:49:35–08:52:4710:06
Lalla MimounaRabat-Sale-Kenitra2 min 59 s07:4008:45:02–08:48:0110:00
OuezzaneTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima2 min 34 s07:4008:45:48–08:48:2210:01
Souq Larb’a al GharbRabat-Sale-Kenitra1 min 39 s07:4008:45:44–08:47:2310:00
Souk El ArbaaRabat-Sale-Kenitra1 min 38 s07:4008:45:44–08:47:2210:00
OujdaOriental58 s07:4308:51:15–08:52:1210:07

Nearby places that see a partial eclipse

Partial eclipse in Morocco, 2 August 2027, local time (GMT (UTC+0))
PlaceEclipseBeginsTotality or max.Ends
TaourirtOriental99.5% (partial)07:4208:5010:06
KenitraRabat-Sale-Kenitra99.2% (partial)07:3908:4609:59
TazaFes-Meknes98.9% (partial)07:4108:4910:04
SaléRabat-Sale-Kenitra98.6% (partial)07:3908:4509:59
RabatRabat-Sale-Kenitra98.5% (partial)07:3908:4509:59
FezFes-Meknes98.3% (partial)07:4008:4810:02
MeknesFes-Meknes97.9% (partial)07:4008:4710:01
CasablancaCasablanca-Settat97.1% (partial)07:3808:4409:57
MarrakeshMarrakesh-Safi89.1% (partial)07:3808:4309:56
AgadirSouss-Massa84.4% (partial)07:3608:4109:53

Any other place: use the search above, enter coordinates, or open the eclipse simulator for the whole path.

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