Slice 4 · Burgos → Soria

El Cueto

Excellent91 / 100

41.95196, -3.55292 · 1222 m · totality 20:29:01–20:30:47 local, sun 7.9° up on bearing 283°.

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Clearance
+8.4°sun above the skyline at totality
Sun visible to
-0.7°where it is finally lost
Totality
105 sat this exact point
Access
Short walk 273 m (track)273 m from the nearest track
Skyline set by
terrainshrubland · 63% tree cover
August sight line
85% usable clear 58% · overcast 15% · CERRA 5.5 km, 135 evenings
August overhead
91% usable clear 68% · overcast 9% · ERA5 25 km

The view west

Your skyline, from 5 m ground survey with the trees on top, and the sun across it from first contact to last.

iThe horizontal scale is compass bearing, the vertical is height above the horizon. The red band is totality. The dashed line is how far the sun clears your skyline at that moment, which is the clearance figure in the table above. It is measured from this trace, at the exact pin. A wall or a roof a few tens of metres away counts here, because the survey cannot tell one from a hillside; where that puts the picture at odds with the scored table, both figures are shown and the range of the obstruction is given, so you can see which applies to you.

0°5°10°15°20°270° W275°280°285° WNW290°295°+8.4° clearC1 19:34totality 20:29C4 21:22sun lost 21:17 at -0.5°heights at 0.82× the width scale

Getting there

118 min from Salinillas de Buradón · 154.2 km by road

Nearest alternatives by road.
SiteDriveDistance
Roadside nr. Tejada (south)3 min1.2 km
Roadside nr. Santo Domingo de Silos27 min17.9 km
Alto de Merendilla28 min18.5 km
El Pico (north)37 min31.3 km

Cloud on the sight line

14 points west, each read at the light's own height. Worst counts.

iThe sun is 8° up, so its light arrives almost sideways and crosses the sky far to the west before it reaches you. Close by it is still near the ground; 50 km out it is at aircraft height. Each point is read at the height the light passes through there. Cloud anywhere on that path hides the sun, whatever the sky above you looks like.

eclipse day12 Aug, 20:30 CEST
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Every cell used, and its forecast at totality
LayerDistanceLight is atBest matchAll modelsMapCell
Near you, low down2.0 km1,499 m……Windy41.9560, -3.5765
3.2 km1,664 m……Windy41.9583, -3.5905
6.4 km2,108 m……Windy41.9647, -3.6281
9.6 km2,553 m……Windy41.9711, -3.6657
12.8 km3,000 m……Windy41.9775, -3.7032
Further west, higher up12.8 km3,000 m……Windy41.9775, -3.7032
21.5 km4,234 m……Windy41.9950, -3.8064
30.3 km5,479 m……Windy42.0125, -3.9097
39.1 km6,734 m……Windy42.0300, -4.0129
47.8 km8,000 m……Windy42.0475, -4.1161
Far west, very high47.8 km8,000 m……Windy42.0475, -4.1161
61.3 km9,975 m……Windy42.0745, -4.2754
74.9 km11,975 m……Windy42.1016, -4.4346
88.4 km14,000 m……Windy42.1286, -4.5939
Aerial photograph of El Cueto, pin marked.
PNOA orthophoto · 420 m across · crosshair = the exact coordinates

Cloud forecast, every model sight line

Worst reading along the ray, same axes on every chart.

iEach layer is sampled where the ray passes through it and the worst value is charted. A shaded span means that model has no data there, not clear sky. Low cloud hides a sun this low; cirrus dims the corona but does not hide it. Fetched by your browser on load.

Low cloud Mid cloud High cloud (cirrus) Totality vertical axis: cover, 0–100 %

How it scores

Component Points
Sun above the skyline28.0 / 28
Sun still up at totality20.0 / 20
Local relief16.0 / 16
Length of totality12.5 / 16
Getting a car to it14.2 / 20
Total 90.7 / 100
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