Solar eclipse Spain- find a spot.

Hello whoever stumbles upon this post!

Looking for advice and ideas. 11/08/2026 will travel to Porto, Portugal with a plan to get a rental and travel to Spain. Idea is to find a hotel somewhere between Porto, Portugal and Leon, Spain and on the big day travel somewhere around Leon to find a viewing area.

Maybe someone could advise how to really choose a viewing spot? Is getting snacks and parking on random roadside would be a good idea? Never been to Spain, so had to imagine what to expect!

10 points · 13 comments · view on lemmy.world

13 Comments

PunnyName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 212d (12 replies)

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_2026

There's a static image of the path, plus an animated gif of timing.

OogaBooga@piefed.social · 3 pts · 212d (11 replies)

Thank you for link, but this is not the information im looking for, i know the path an times, but more specific places, how to choose one.

KaKi87@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 98d

Hi

I'll be travelling from France, and without a car, so I'm looking for the same information and with additional challenges lol

Did you find anything useful ?

PunnyName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 212d (9 replies)

Oh, this was mostly for others, in case they didn't know. Just wanna help how I can.

OogaBooga@piefed.social · 2 pts · 212d (8 replies)

that’s thoughtful:) will you go to see eclipse as well?

PunnyName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 211d (7 replies)

Yep! Going to Iceland. Plane and hostel paid for.

OogaBooga@piefed.social · 2 pts · 211d (6 replies)

wow nice! I didn’t really check Iceland option that much, because of cost. But would love to go to Iceland some other time! Hope you will have an amazing trip!!!

PunnyName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 210d (5 replies)

Hope you find a spot in mainland Europe! I expect it'll be limited and costly at this point (I booked in September and things were mostly booked).

OogaBooga@piefed.social · 2 pts · 210d

i check, and, in my opinion, it’s that bad, could find quite many decent places, especially becaue we are splitting in half and because we are so much more flexible with car. £200 for 2nights for 2, not bad at all