Portugal scenic viewpoint
Boca dos Namorados
You can see 125 km from here, looking east.
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 125 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).
- 125 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 91%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 23%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,060 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 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 September.
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-west46 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Febsouth-west58 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Marwest64 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Aprwest72 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Maywest80 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Junwest82 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Julwest82 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Augwest76 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Sepwest68 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Octwest62 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Novsouth-west50 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Decsouth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- 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
Boca dos Namorados.
Mountain pass in Madeira, Portugal
Boca dos Namorados is a scenic viewpoint in Portugal, 1,060 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 125 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 23% of the horizon.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pico Ruivo (1,862 m), 8 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 91% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- Unofficial flat ground suitable to pitch a discreet tentcampsite · 6.5 km · 19 within 10 km
- Eira Do Serradoplace to stay · 2.2 km · 201 within 10 km
- Curral das Freirasnearest town · 2.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Curral das FreirasBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport (FNC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 19 km in a straight lineCar hire at FNC airport (Funchal)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
- 45other viewpoints within 5 kmPico dos Barcelos, Pico do Arieiro, Teleférico do Rancho and 42 more
- 32named peaks within 5 kmChão dos Terreiros, Grande, Curral Martinho and 29 more
- 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmFajã das Bebras, Rancho, Fajã dos Padres and 3 more
- 10marked trails within 3 kmPR 12 - Caminho Real da Encumeada, Vereda das Voltas, Levada da Negra and 7 more
- 8shelters and huts within 5 km
- 27car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmCentro da Freira da Madeira - Doutor Rui Silva
- 31restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 19campsites within 10 kmUnofficial flat ground suitable to pitch a discreet tent, Pico Ruivo, Chão dos Louros and 16 more
- 201places to stay within 10 kmEira Do Serrado, Quinta da Fonte, Madeira Panorâmico and 198 more
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 Boca dos Namorados, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas46 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 kmFigures 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.
Boca dos Namorados
Portugal
- 72Viewyas Score
- 125 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 1,060 mAltitude
Pico Ruivo
Portugal · 8 km
- 82Viewyas Score
- 164 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 1,825 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q64765696) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, 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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