{"id":72137,"date":"2026-08-18T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/72137\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:00:11","slug":"august-draws-to-a-close-with-a-partial-lunar-eclipse-visible-throughout-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/72137\/","title":{"rendered":"August draws to a close with a partial lunar eclipse visible throughout Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks after the spectacular total solar eclipse that amazed Spain<\/a>, the heavens will treat us to the opposite phenomenon: a partial lunar eclipse during which, on the night of 27\u201328 August, 93 per cent of the Moon\u2019s surface will be obscured by the Earth\u2019s shadow.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, the eclipse will be visible across the whole of Spain to the naked eye, without the need for special glasses or filters. The partial phase will be visible from anywhere in the country, although in the centre and east of the mainland, the Balearics<\/a> and Melilla, the Moon will set before the partial phase of the eclipse ends, whilst in the rest of the mainland, the Canary Islands and Ceuta, the Moon will set after the partial phase.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the world, the eclipse will be visible in one of its phases in the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, according to data from the National Astronomical Observatory (OAN). Unlike a total solar eclipse, which can only be seen from a long, narrow strip across the Earth\u2019s surface, a lunar eclipse can be observed from the entire night-side hemisphere facing the Moon.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, lunar eclipses are also longer than solar eclipses, so there will be plenty of time to enjoy this phenomenon, according to the American Astronomical Society (AAS). A lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun<\/a>, the Earth and the Moon are aligned and the Earth\u2019s shadow is cast onto the lunar disc, which gradually takes on a reddish hue. This happens because the Earth\u2019s atmosphere filters the sunlight, blocking out much of the blue light and allowing mainly red light to pass through.<\/p>\n

This phenomenon unfolds in five stages: the penumbra, during which the Earth\u2019s shadow obscures the leading edge of the Moon; the umbra, which causes a dramatic darkening of the lower left edge of the lunar disc; and totality, when the Moon turns red. In the following two stages, the process is reversed and the Moon gradually regains its initial brightness.<\/p>\n

On 27 August, the Moon will rise in Spain at 21:01 and set at 07:47 on 28 August, according to data from the National Astronomical Observatory (OAN). The partial eclipse will begin at 04:34 and end at 07:52 mainland time. The peak of the eclipse, when the Earth\u2019s shadow will cover 93 per cent of the lunar disc, will take place at 06:12:53 Spanish central time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks after the spectacular total solar eclipse that amazed Spain, the heavens will treat us to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1254,605,27960,599,600,27961,27962,17,13412],"class_list":["post-72137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-balearics","tag-latest-headlines","tag-luna-eclipse","tag-majorca","tag-mallorca","tag-mallorca-eclipse","tag-mallorca-moon","tag-spain","tag-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}