The August 12, 2026 eclipse has passed. This site is kept as an archive.

August 12, 2026

It’s over. Thank you for chasing it with us.

The Moon’s shadow came ashore in the Westfjords and swept southeast across Snæfellsnes and Reykjanes between 17:43 and 17:48 UTC on August 12, 2026. Wherever you stood — a lighthouse headland, a gravel pull-off, a hillside you picked off a map three months earlier — you had about two minutes. We hope the sky gave them to you.

The live parts of this site are switched off. The weather map, the hourly forecasts, the road cameras and the recommendation engine all existed to answer one question, and that question no longer has a future tense. There is nothing left to predict.

What remains is the record. The guide still explains how totality works and how to read an Icelandic sky. The viewing spots keep their descriptions, photos, contact times and terrain notes exactly as they stood on eclipse morning. The horizon check still runs against the ÍslandsDEM terrain model, because that data does not expire and somebody planning a different sunrise may still want it.

Next total eclipse over Iceland

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A hundred and seventy years away. The next one anywhere is closer: August 2, 2027, crossing southern Spain, Morocco and Egypt — over six minutes of totality near Luxor, in some of the most reliably cloudless air on the planet. If yesterday caught you, start there.