12 August 2026

The eclipse over Switzerland

Up to 92 per cent of the Sun will be covered, but the 20:19 maximum catches it 3 degrees above the horizon: across half of Switzerland the mountains hide it first. The map shows how much you will really see from where you are.

Never look at the Sun without eclipse glasses

Even 92 per cent covered, the Sun burns your retina in seconds, painlessly. You need glasses certified to ISO 12312-2: sunglasses, smoked glass and photographic filters are not enough, and never through binoculars or a camera without a front filter.

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Map of Switzerland coloured by how much of the 12 August 2026 eclipse is visible from each location

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Maximum visible from that point

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The best spots

Gornergrat
3089 m - Gornergratbahn
92%
Rochers-de-Naye
1983 m - train a cremaillere
92%
Le Moleson
1954 m - funiculaire et telepherique
92%
Monte Generoso
1639 m - trenino a cremagliera
92%

The same mountain that hides your Sun, in 3D on your desk

This map comes out of the same elevation model we print our 3D reliefs from. Pick any place in Switzerland and we turn it into your made-to-order printed relief.

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How this was computed

Sun and Moon positions from the JPL DE440s ephemeris (Skyfield), obscuration as the geometric overlap of the two apparent discs. The local horizon is ray-traced over a 75 metre elevation model out to 80 km towards west-northwest, including Earth curvature and refraction, with the observer 1.7 m above ground. Check: for Bern the model gives 91.5 per cent at 20:19, against a published 91.3 per cent at 20:18. Very sharp summits come out slightly lower than reality, so mountain figures are if anything conservative.