Spain scenic viewpoint
Balcón de Europa
You can see 92 km from here, looking 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 92 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).
- 92 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 41%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 12Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 27 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 12 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 June 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Aprwest22 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Maywest28 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Junnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset77%
- Julnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset82%
- Augwest18 min before the sea-level sunset79%
- Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- 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
Balcón de Europa.
Observation point in Nerja, Spain
Balcón de Europa is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 27 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 92 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 41% of the horizon.
12 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Tajo del Almendrón (1,514 m), 10 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to August.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Camping Cortijo San Miguelcampsite · 2.1 km · 9 within 10 km
- Puerta del Marplace to stay · 0.2 km · 185 within 10 km
- Nerjanearest town · 1.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in NerjaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- F.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 50 km in a straight lineCar hire at GRX airport (Granada)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
- 20other viewpoints within 5 kmEl acueducto del Águila, Torre Vigía de Maro, Mirador del Bendito and 17 more
- 8named peaks within 5 kmCerro Fuente del Perro, Cruz del Pinto, Cerro Pastora and 5 more
- 8marked trails within 3 kmNerja - Frigiliana, Torrox - Nerja, Frigiliana - Nerja and 5 more
- 23shelters and huts within 5 km
- 101car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmOficina de Turismo
- 175restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmCamping Cortijo San Miguel, Villa del Mar - Camping Nerja, Paradise Beach Camper Area and 6 more
- 185places to stay within 10 kmPuerta del Mar, Hotel Plaza Cavana, Mena Plaza and 182 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 Balcón de Europa, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Coastya11 beaches within 10 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Balcón de Europa
Spain
- 81Viewyas Score
- 92 kmFarthest ridge
- 12Peaks in view
- 27 mAltitude
Jebel Moussa
Morocco · 167 km
- 94Viewyas Score
- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 26Peaks in view
- 819 mAltitude
Mirador del Estrecho
Spain · 168 km
- 82Viewyas Score
- 207 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 333 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q43159474) · 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, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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