Portugal scenic viewpoint
Cabo Girão
You can see 94 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 94 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).
- 94 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 48%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 597 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-westsets on an open horizon42%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon44%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon44%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Maywest12 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Julnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon57%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon51%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon44%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon42%
- 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
Cabo Girão.
Protected area in Madeira, Portugal
Cabo Girão is a scenic viewpoint in Portugal, 597 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 94 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 48% of the horizon.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pico do Areeiro (1,818 m), 11 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upticket required
- Unofficial flat ground suitable to pitch a discreet tentcampsite · 11 km · 1 within 10 km
- Golden Residenceplace to stay · 5.9 km · 196 within 10 km
- Estreito de Câmara de Lobosnearest town · 0.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Estreito de Câmara de LobosBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport (FNC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 22 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
- 33other viewpoints within 5 kmTeleférico do Rancho, Ilheú de Câmara de Lobos, Pico da Torre and 30 more
- 4named peaks within 5 kmTorre, Coroa, Cardo and 1 more
- 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmFajã das Bebras, Rancho, Fajã dos Padres and 3 more
- 5marked trails within 3 kmPasseio Público Marítimo, Passeio Marítimo (Praia Formosa - Câmara de Lobos), Vereda do Calhau da Lapa and 2 more
- 7shelters and huts within 5 km
- 74car parks within 3 km
- 57restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmUnofficial flat ground suitable to pitch a discreet tent
- 196places to stay within 10 kmGolden Residence, Alto Lido, Madeira Panorâmico and 193 more
- visitor centres 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 Cabo Girão, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas43 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.
Cabo Girão
Portugal
- 70Viewyas Score
- 94 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 597 mAltitude
Pico Ruivo
Portugal · 13 km
- 82Viewyas Score
- 164 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 1,825 mAltitude
Boca dos Namorados
Portugal · 5 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 125 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 1,060 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q856866) · 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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