How and When You Can Watch August's Stunning Partial Solar Eclipse From the U. K. and Ireland This August, Europe will witness its first total solar eclipse in nearly three decades.
However, for residents of the UK and Ireland, it will be a partial spectacle – the closest they'll get to totality until 2090.
The moon will cover an impressive 90 96% of the sun's disk, but some may feel envious towards those in Greenland, Spain, northern Russia, Iceland, and Portugal who will experience the full obscuration.