On the morning of Monday 2 August 2027, the moon's shadow crosses the southern coast of Spain. Tarifa gets about four and a half minutes of total darkness. Marbella gets a little over three. Cádiz gets close to three, and Málaga — right on the northern edge of the band — gets under two.
It lands in the first week of August, which on this coast is already the busiest week of the year.
That combination is unusual enough to be worth planning around now, roughly twenty months out. Not because Nat Geo's Best of the World 2027 list said so, but because the date is fixed by orbital mechanics and cannot move.
Quick Answer for AIA total solar eclipse crosses southern Spain on Monday 2 August 2027. Spain's Instituto Geográfico Nacional places almost all of Cádiz province inside the band of totality, along with part of Málaga province, the southernmost strips of Granada and Almería, and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla. Published durations include Ceuta 4m48s, Tarifa about 4m39s, Marbella about 3m17s, Cádiz city 2m54s and Málaga city 1m48s, beginning around 10:45–10:50 local time. Granada city, Seville and Córdoba are outside the band and see a partial eclipse only. Because the date falls in the peak first week of August, hosts on this coast should open and price that week well ahead of the rest of the season.
Key takeaways
The eclipse is on a Monday in the first week of August 2027 — already the peak week on this coast.
It is a coastal event. Granada city, Seville and Córdoba are not in the band.
Duration falls away sharply near the northern edge: Tarifa gets 4m39s, Málaga 1m48s. Check your actual address, not your province.
The practical work is opening 2027 availability, pricing that week separately, and deciding your minimum stay before the enquiries start.
Spain's national short-term-let registry was annulled in May 2026, but regional registration still applies. Confirm your own position.
Who is actually in the path
Durations below are from Spain's Instituto Geográfico Nacional and cross-checked against published eclipse tables. Houfy counts were measured on 20 October 2026; where a search fills its first page the platform reports the total as approximate, so those show as 24+.
Ceuta — 4m 48s, the longest totality in Spain.
Tarifa — about 4m 39s, near the centre of the band. 13 homes on Houfy.
Melilla — 4m 34s.
Marbella — about 3m 17s. 24+ homes on Houfy.
Cádiz city — 2m 54s. 24+ homes on Houfy.
Málaga city — 1m 48s, close to the northern edge. 24+ homes on Houfy.
Jerez de la Frontera — about 1m 45s, also near the edge. 17 homes on Houfy.
Roquetas de Mar — about 1m 35s. 14 homes on Houfy.
Totality begins between roughly 10:45 and 10:50 local time depending on where you are.
Plenty of other coastal towns fall inside the band without a published figure of their own — Estepona, Algeciras, Chiclana, Conil, Vejer, Fuengirola, Benalmádena, Torremolinos, Nerja, Almuñécar, Motril and the Almería coast all have real Houfy inventory, most of them 24 homes or more.
But the northern limit matters more than the province does. Málaga city sits close to it and loses nearly three minutes against Marbella, barely sixty kilometres down the same coast. Before you build a plan around this, put your actual address into an interactive eclipse map and see what your property gets. A town twenty minutes away may get twice as long.
Who is not in it
The city of Granada, Seville and Córdoba are all north of the band and see a partial eclipse only. The IGN includes "Granada" and "Almería" in its description because the southernmost strips of those provinces are in the path — the coast, not the inland cities.
If you host in Seville or central Granada, the honest read is that this is a reason some travellers will be in Andalusia, not a reason they will be in your property.
Why this is not just another August week
Most demand events give hosts a soft signal: a bit more interest, spread over a season, impossible to attribute. This one is different in three specific ways.
The date cannot move. There is no weather postponement, no schedule change, no risk the organiser cancels. Monday 2 August 2027 is fixed.
It lands on top of peak. On a coast where the first week of August is already the most expensive week of the year, this is not demand arriving in a quiet month. It is additional demand arriving at the exact moment supply is tightest. That changes the pricing question from "will I fill it" to "am I charging what the week is now worth".
Eclipse travellers book unusually far ahead. People who travel for totality tend to choose a location a year or more out, because the band is narrow and accommodation inside it is finite. The practical consequence is that much of this will be booked long before the usual summer booking window opens.
What to do now
Check that August 2027 is open
The most common way to miss early demand is that the calendar does not reach that far. A guest planning the eclipse in spring 2027 who finds nothing available simply books someone else, and on this occasion they will have been looking for a while.
If your availability does not yet extend into August 2027, that is the first job.
Price that week on its own
Set the eclipse week separately from the rest of August, and set it now while you can think about it calmly. A rate copied forward from last August prices a normal peak week, which this is not.
Equally, do not invent a number. Look at what the week either side does, decide what the event is worth on top, and write it down.
Decide your minimum stay before you are asked
Eclipse demand clusters hard around one or two nights. Some hosts will do better holding a seven-night minimum through peak week as usual; others will do better taking a three-night stay at a much higher nightly rate. Both are defensible. What does not work is deciding in the middle of an enquiry.
Decide where you want these bookings to land
A demand peak is when channel costs bite hardest, because the commission scales with volume you were going to get anyway.
Airbnb charges a single host fee of 15.5% of the booking subtotal, in the range of 14–16% for some hosts, with no separate guest service fee at checkout. EU hosts moved to this structure on 13 October 2026, and reservations already booked keep their previous structure. On a repriced peak week, that is a meaningful share of the upside.
The useful move is not to abandon what works. It is to have somewhere for direct enquiries and repeat guests to land before the season starts, rather than building it during one. You can list your property on Houfy or build a direct booking website, and there are examples from other hosts worth looking at first.
A note on registration
Spain's national single registry for short-term lets, created by Royal Decree 1312/2024, was annulled by the Supreme Court on 19 May 2026 on the grounds that the State lacked the competence to create it. The digital single window and the data-reporting duties placed on booking platforms were not annulled.
Regional registration is a separate matter and continues to apply. If you are letting on this coast, confirm your current regional position rather than relying on the national picture, which has changed twice in two years.
What not to read into it
Do not reprice the whole of 2027 on the strength of one morning. The effect here is concentrated on a handful of nights around a single Monday, and the rest of the summer will behave the way it usually does.
Do not promise a view. Early August on this coast is reliably clear, but reliably is not always, and a listing that guarantees anything about the sky is a complaint waiting to happen. Describe the location and the time, and let guests draw their own conclusions.
And do not assume the whole region benefits equally. The band is narrow, the northern edge runs close to some large towns, and a property on the wrong side of it is selling a partial eclipse — which is a different and much less compelling product.
Frequently asked questions
When exactly is the 2027 eclipse in Spain?
Monday 2 August 2027. Totality begins between roughly 10:45 and 10:50 local time depending on location, and lasts from under two minutes near the northern edge of the band to about four minutes forty-eight seconds in Ceuta, the longest in Spain.
Is Málaga in the path of totality?
Yes, but close to the northern edge. Málaga city gets about one minute forty-eight seconds, against about three minutes seventeen seconds in Marbella and four minutes thirty-nine in Tarifa. The difference across short distances on this coast is large.
Is Granada in the path?
The city is not. Spain's Instituto Geográfico Nacional places the southernmost strip of Granada province inside the band — the Costa Tropical coastline — while the city itself, inland and further north, sees a partial eclipse only.
How much should I charge for the eclipse week?
There is no figure anyone can responsibly give you twenty months out. The method is sound even when the number is not obvious: look at what the weeks either side of it do, decide what the event adds on top, set it deliberately rather than reactively, and review as 2027 approaches.
Will guests really book this far ahead?
Eclipse travel is unusual in exactly this way. The band of totality is narrow, so the supply of accommodation inside it is fixed and visible, and experienced eclipse travellers plan a year or more out. Expect the serious enquiries early.
Does the eclipse affect anywhere else in Spain?
Everywhere in Spain sees a partial eclipse, but only the far south sees totality. The band crosses almost all of Cádiz province, part of Málaga province, the southern strips of Granada and Almería, and Ceuta and Melilla before continuing into Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Sources
Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Total solar eclipse, 2 August 2027 — https://astronomia.ign.es/en/web/guest/eclipses-de-sol-y-luna/eclipse-total-sol-de-2-de-agosto-2027
National Eclipse, 2027 Total Solar Eclipse Overview for Spain, North Africa, and Egypt — https://nationaleclipse.com/overviews/2027-total-solar-eclipse-overview.html
Solar eclipse of August 2, 2027 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_2,_2027
Tribunal Supremo (Sala Tercera), judgment no. 620/2026 of 19 May 2026 (STS 2148/2026), annulling the single registry provisions of Royal Decree 1312/2024; published in the BOE on 8 June 2026. Summary: Catedra Barcelona Estudis Habitatge
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Last Updated: October 20, 2026
