Flights into Bilbao are up 366 percent for the August 12 eclipse, and people are buying the airport, not the eclipse. Bilbao sits on the edge of the band, so it gets about 29 seconds of totality, under the cloudiest sky on the whole Spanish track.
Read the map instead:
- The long totality is inland at Oviedo, on the Asturias centerline: 1 minute 48 seconds, but the same cloudy coast.
- The reliable sky is the Ebro valley around Zaragoza, 70 to 85 percent clear, still 1 minute 24 seconds.
- The Sun sits low, an hour before sunset, so you need a clean west-northwest horizon: a field beats a room with a view.
- Book something refundable and drive to the clear line on the day; the path is 290 kilometers wide.
Book the sky, not the city. And carry certified ISO 12312-2 glasses.
