{"id":728906,"date":"2026-08-06T02:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728906\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T02:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:56:20","slug":"where-to-watch-the-2026-solar-eclipse-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728906\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to watch the 2026 solar eclipse in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you see the solar eclipse from London?<\/p>\n<p class=\"RichText_Paragraph__NjNiY\">Yes. If you plan to watch the eclipse from London, you will see around 91% of the sun covered. The eclipse begins at approximately 6.17pm, and reaches maximum coverage at around 7.12\u20137.13pm before ending at 8.06pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RichText_Paragraph__NjNiY\">But while the majority of the sun will be covered, the challenge in London will be ensuring the view isn\u2019t blocked by surrounding buildings and parklands. <\/p>\n<p class=\"RichText_Paragraph__NjNiY\">The Royal Observatory Greenwich will run a free livestream from 6.15pm, hosted by its astronomers and filmed through suitable solar-observation equipment for those who want more of an educational experience for this rare event, otherwise, you can simply enjoy the view at Hampstead Heath, Primrose Hill, and the Royal Greenwich Observatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can you see the solar eclipse from London? Yes. If you plan to watch the eclipse from London,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-728906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}