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Solar eclipse tracker: What time will it hit your location on August 12?

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 806 words · By Mohammed Haddad
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What to know about Solar eclipse tracker: What time will it hit your location on August 12?

Al Jazeera reports: Solar eclipse tracker: What time will it hit your location on August 12?.

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What happened

Al Jazeera reports: Solar eclipse tracker: What time will it hit your location on August 12?.

Why it matters

On August 12, nearly one billion people could potentially see a partial solar eclipse, with 15 million in its path of totality.

Common ground

On August 12, 2026, starting at 15:34 GMT, the moon’s shadow will race from the Arctic across Greenland, Iceland and Spain, blotting out the sun for as long as two minutes and 18 seconds.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 21 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Algiers will see about 98 percent of the sun covered and Casablanca about 87 percent”
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Claim 2: “The sun is about 400 times wider than the moon and sits about 400 times further away”
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No evidence was provided or found during the search for the specific ratio of the sun's size and distance compared to the moon.
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Claim 3: “On August 12, some 15 million people in Spain, Iceland and parts of Greenland, Russia and Portugal will be inside the path of totality”
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Claim 4: “Overall, about 980 million people, nearly one in eight worldwide, can see the sun at least partly covered.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the word 'approximately' and unrelated news about an earthquake and a flight, providing no data on the number of people who can see the eclipse.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 July 2026 at approximately 16:27:15 JST (07:27:15 UTC), an earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture in southern Japan with a magnitude of Mww 6.8 (MJMA 7.1) at a depth of 10 km (6.2 mi), later revi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Kumamoto_earthquake
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following scientific events occurred, or are scheduled to occur in 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_science
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ALM Flight 980 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight that originated in John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, to Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALM_Flight_980
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Claim 5: “An eclipse happens when one celestial body moves into the shadow of another.”
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Multiple educational and web sources (Brainly, 'define an eclipse with neat diagram') confirm that an eclipse occurs when one celestial body enters the shadow of another.
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web search NEUTRAL — Partial Solar Eclipse: When the Sun, Moon, and Earth are not precisely lined up, this occurs. A tiny area of the Sun's surface appears to have a dark shadow. Annular Eclipse: The Moon's annular eclips…
https://www.vedantu.com/physics/eclipse
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web search NEUTRAL — An eclipse occurs when one celestial body enters the shadow of another. A solar eclipse happens when the Moon blocks sunlight from reaching Earth.
https://brainly.com/question/42331876
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web search NEUTRAL — An eclipse occurs when one celestial body moves into the shadow of another. A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, blocking sunlight from reaching parts of Earth.
https://studyx.ai/questions/4lh1zu7/define-an-eclipse-with-n…
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Claim 6: “Total solar eclipses are much less frequent and occur an average of 66 times in a century or roughly once every year and a half.”
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Claim 7: “the cities of Leon, Valladolid, Zaragoza, Teruel and Valencia are all located inside the path of totality.”
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Claim 8: “The populous cities of Madrid and Barcelona fall just outside this band, but observers there will still experience more than 99 percent solar coverage.”
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Claim 9: “In Canada, the northeastern city of St John’s will see about 53 percent coverage, dropping to 18 percent in Montreal and 8 percent in Toronto.”
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Claim 10: “Of all solar eclipses, roughly a third are partial, a third annular, a bit over a quarter total, and about 5 percent hybrid.”
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Claim 11: “On August 12, nearly one billion people could potentially see a partial solar eclipse, with 15 million in its path of totality.”
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While evidence confirms a total solar eclipse occurs on August 12, 2026, the provided evidence does not contain the specific population statistics (1 billion partial, 15 million totality). The search results for this claim were generic definitions of the month of August.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — August 15 is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 138 days remain until the end of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_15
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — August 15 is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. August 15 may also refer to: August 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) National Liberation Day of Korea, public ho…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_15_(disambiguation)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Independence Day is celebrated annually on 15 August as a public holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947. On this day the Indian Independence…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(India)
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Claim 12: “In a solar eclipse, the moon passes between Earth and the sun and blocks its light, in one of four ways: partial, annular, total or hybrid.”
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Wikipedia and other web sources confirm that a solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between Earth and the sun, and they list the types as total, annular, and partial.
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web search NEUTRAL — A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.An annular solar eclipse occurs when the M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse
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web search NEUTRAL — Solar technologies are categorized as either passive or active depending on the way they capture, convert and distribute sunlight and enable solar energy to be harnessed at different levels around the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
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web search NEUTRAL — Solar eclipses happen when the New Moon comes between the Sun and Earth and blocks out the Sun's rays. Solar eclipses can be total, annular, or partial.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar-eclipse.html
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Claim 13: “The next total solar eclipse will be on August 2, 2027, crossing southern Spain, North Africa and Yemen.”
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Claim 14: “Totality will begin at roughly 18:27 GMT in western Spain (8:27pm local time) and last for up to 110 seconds”
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Claim 15: “According to NASA, two to five solar eclipses are observed on Earth each year.”
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No evidence was provided or found during the search to verify NASA's statement on the annual number of solar eclipses.
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Claim 16: “In a lunar eclipse, Earth’s shadow falls across the moon.”
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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and Space.com, confirm that a lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth's shadow falls across the moon.
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web search NEUTRAL — A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when Earth's silhouette partially blocks the Sun in the lunar sky but does not occlude it completely, ensuring some sunlight can still reach the Moon directly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse
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web search NEUTRAL — A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth’s core shadow covers the Moon. Eclipse watchers can see the Moon turn red when the eclipse reaches totality.Earth casting its shadow on the Moon. timeanddat…
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/total-lunar-eclipse.html
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web search NEUTRAL — A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, casting its shadow across the lunar surface.
https://www.space.com/33786-lunar-eclipse-guide.html
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Claim 17: “In Paris, roughly 92 percent of the sun will be covered, in London 91 percent and in Berlin 85 percent.”
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Claim 18: “In the US, parts of Alaska will see the deepest eclipse in the country at about 37 percent, while the rest of the country gets only a shallow bite, from about 28 percent in northeastern Maine down to 10 percent in New York”
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Claim 19: “A partial eclipse will be visible across much of Western Europe, parts of Northwestern Africa, and a small portion of the United States.”
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The claim is corroborated by NASA Science and a specific web result ('Solar Eclipse 2026 - Total Solar Eclipse 2026 Live') which explicitly mentions the partial eclipse visibility in Western Europe, northwestern Africa, and parts of North America.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers around 20% of Earth's la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) is a geographic designation used by institutions, governments, global marketing, media, and business sectors—especially in North American business circles—whe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Gui…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa
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Claim 20: “Wednesday’s eclipse will be mainland Europe’s first total solar eclipse since 1999”
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The provided evidence confirms the eclipse occurs on August 12, 2026, but none of the provided sources explicitly state that this is the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Europe since 1999.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starting in late May 2026, several severe heatwaves affected Europe. Temperature records were broken in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Men's 3 m springboard competition at the 2026 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 August 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, 12 August 2026, with a magnitude of 1.0386. Totality occurred in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the part…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_20…
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Claim 21: “On August 12, 2026, starting at 15:34 GMT, the moon’s shadow will race from the Arctic across Greenland, Iceland and Spain, blotting out the sun for as long as two minutes and 18 seconds.”
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Multiple independent sources (Wikipedia, EarthSky, NASA Science) confirm the date (August 12, 2026) and the path of totality crossing Greenland, Iceland, and Spain.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Danish Realm, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, often known as Denmark, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united by the Constitutional Act, which applies …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iceland is a Nordic island country between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Europe and North America. It is culturally and politically linked wi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Friday, March 20, 2015, with a magnitude of 1.0445. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, ther…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_March_20,_201…
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