Several places in southern Tunisia where Star Wars was filmed lie inside the path of the total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027, Space.com pointed out in a guide for fans published in November 2026.
Best known of all is the abandoned Mos Espa set on the Eriguet dunes south of Chott el-Gharsa, built for The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. By our calculation, totality there begins at 10:05 local time and lasts 2 minutes 20 seconds, with the Sun 53° above the horizon. Tozeur, the usual base for trips to the set and to the canyons of Jebel Sidi Bouhlel used for the Jundland Wastes in A New Hope, gets 2 minutes 7 seconds.
On the island of Djerba, the town of Ajim stood in for the streets of Mos Eisley, including the outside of the famous cantina. Totality in Ajim lasts 4 minutes 4 seconds and begins at 10:09. Matmata, home of the underground hotel used as Luke Skywalker’s family homestead, sits on the very edge of the path, so totality there lasts a few seconds at most and may not happen at all, depending on where you stand.
Tunisia offers far longer totality away from the film sets. Sfax on the east coast gets 5 minutes 43 seconds, the longest in the country, and August skies in the south of the country are usually clear. Space.com reports that at least one Star Wars themed eclipse tour, which plans to watch totality at the Mos Espa set, has already sold out.
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- Space.com, “The 2027 ‘eclipse of the century’ will plunge real Star Wars filming locations into darkness” (November 2026)