Spain scenic viewpoint
Balcó del Mediterrani
You can see 131 km from here, looking south-west.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 131 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 131 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 41%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 297Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 52 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 297 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are from July to August.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Julnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset66%
- Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Balcó del Mediterrani.
Balcó del Mediterrani is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 52 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 131 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 41% of the horizon.
297 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Creu de Santos (942 m), 59 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Camping Platja Llargacampsite · 4.4 km · 12 within 10 km
- Atenea Aventura Apparthotelplace to stay · 9.2 km · 135 within 10 km
- Tarragonanearest town · 1.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in TarragonaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Reus Airport (REU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 8 km in a straight lineCar hire at REU airport (Reus)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 7other viewpoints within 5 kmBalcó del Mediterrani, Mirador de l'Oliva and 5 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmTuró del Llorito
- 12marked trails within 3 kmEl Serrallo, Tarragona-Puigpelat, Camí de Sant Jaume de Tarragona a Lleida - Etapa 1 and 9 more
- 5shelters and huts within 5 kmRefugi climàtic Casa del Mar Tarragona and 4 more
- 129car parks within 3 km
- 6visitor centres within 5 kmAntic Ajuntament, Informació Turística, Centre d'interpretació. Escola de Natura. Parc Fluvial Francolí and 3 more
- 247restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 kmCamping Platja Llarga, Las Salinas, Las Palmeras and 9 more
- 135places to stay within 10 kmAtenea Aventura Apparthotel, Pensio Salvado, Hotel Negresco and 132 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Balcó del Mediterrani, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas78 mountains within 25 km
Coastya13 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees within 15 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Balcó del Mediterrani
Spain
- 87Viewyas Score
- 131 kmFarthest ridge
- 297Peaks in view
- 52 mAltitude
Montserrat
Spain · 72 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 225 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,386Peaks in view
- 1,194 mAltitude
Mirador de la Rabassada
Spain · 81 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 194 kmFarthest ridge
- 292Peaks in view
- 423 mAltitude
Mirador de la Mitja lluna
Spain · 83 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 187 kmFarthest ridge
- 193Peaks in view
- 203 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q17587683) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Coastya, Forestyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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