Slice 3 · Palencia → Burgos

Roadside nr. Valbuena de Pisuerga

Very good85 / 100

42.13494, -4.22748 · 902 m · totality 20:28:52–20:30:37 local, sun 8.4° up on bearing 282°.

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Clearance
+8.6°sun above the skyline at totality
Sun visible to
+0.3°where it is finally lost
Totality
105 sat this exact point
Access
Park at the spot0 m from the nearest park
Skyline set by
terraingrassland · 1% tree cover
August sight line
84% usable clear 55% · overcast 16% · CERRA 5.5 km, 135 evenings
August overhead
92% usable clear 68% · overcast 8% · 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°+8.6° clearC1 19:33totality 20:29C4 21:22sun lost 21:15 at +0.3°heights at 0.79× the width scale

Getting there

104 min from Salinillas de Buradón · 154.3 km by road

Nearest alternatives by road.
SiteDriveDistance
Roadside nr. Quintana del Puente3 min3.1 km
Roadside nr. Pedrosa del Príncipe (south)17 min15.1 km
Roadside nr. Pedrosa del Príncipe (north)18 min15.9 km
Roadside nr. Tariego de Cerrato40 min45.3 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 km1,199 m……Windy42.1388, -4.2511
3.5 km1,424 m……Windy42.1417, -4.2690
7.0 km1,948 m……Windy42.1484, -4.3106
10.5 km2,473 m……Windy42.1552, -4.3522
14.0 km3,000 m……Windy42.1620, -4.3937
Further west, higher up14.0 km3,000 m……Windy42.1620, -4.3937
22.2 km4,236 m……Windy42.1777, -4.4907
30.4 km5,481 m……Windy42.1935, -4.5876
38.6 km6,736 m……Windy42.2092, -4.6846
46.8 km8,000 m……Windy42.2250, -4.7815
Far west, very high46.8 km8,000 m……Windy42.2250, -4.7815
59.5 km9,978 m……Windy42.2494, -4.9318
72.2 km11,978 m……Windy42.2738, -5.0820
84.9 km14,000 m……Windy42.2982, -5.2323
Aerial photograph of Roadside nr. Valbuena de Pisuerga, 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 totality15.3 / 20
Local relief9.3 / 16
Length of totality12.6 / 16
Getting a car to it20.0 / 20
Total 85.2 / 100
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