Spain volcano
Cumbre Vieja
You can see 166 km from here, looking north.
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 166 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).
- 166 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 89%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 36%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 15Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,862 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 15 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 August 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 sunset49%
- Febwest58 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Marwest70 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Aprwest84 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Maywest98 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Junwest106 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Julwest102 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Augwest90 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Sepwest76 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Octwest62 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Novsouth-west50 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Decsouth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- 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
Cumbre Vieja.
Volcano in La Palma, Spain
Cumbre Vieja is a volcano in Spain, 1,862 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 166 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 36% of the horizon.
15 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Teide (3,715 m), 121 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 89% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Casa Ruralplace to stay · 3.2 km · 106 within 10 km
- Mazonearest town · 7.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MazoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- La Palma Airport (SPC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 10 km in a straight lineCar hire at SPC airport (Sta Cruz de la Palma, La Palma Island)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
- 21other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador del Birigoyo, Mirador Volcan de Martin, Mirador de Duraznero and 18 more
- 28named peaks within 5 kmPico Nambroque, Montaña de la Manteca, Montaña Marcos and 25 more
- 6marked trails within 3 kmEl Bastón, Jedey-Tigalate, Refugio del Pilar-Playa del Hoyo and 3 more
- 17shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 km
- 106places to stay within 10 kmCasa Rural, Villa Marta, Villa Carlos and 103 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Cumbre Vieja, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas33 mountains within 25 km
Coastya6 beaches within 10 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Cumbre Vieja
Spain
- 84Viewyas Score
- 166 kmFarthest ridge
- 15Peaks in view
- 1,862 mAltitude
Mirador de La Peña
Spain · 86 km
- 87Viewyas Score
- 141 kmFarthest ridge
- 16Peaks in view
- 661 mAltitude
The Friar's Rock
Spain · 126 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 137 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 16 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1143757) · 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, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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