Spain scenic viewpoint
Mirador del Tombo
You can see 11 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 11 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).
- 11 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 70%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 852 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1 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 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-west82 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febsouth-west88 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest94 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest124 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Maywest140 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Junwest154 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Julwest146 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest128 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwest102 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octsouth-west90 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west86 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Decsouth-west82 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- 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
Mirador del Tombo.
Mirador del Tombo is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 852 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 11 km away, looking north.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Torre de las Llastrias (2,603 m), 4 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 70% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Posada de Valdeóncampsite · 2.3 km · 14 within 10 km
- Albergue La Cuestaplace to stay · 1.9 km · 44 within 10 km
- Posada de Valdeónnearest town · 2.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Posada de ValdeónBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- León Airport (LEN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 89 km in a straight lineCar hire at SDR airport (Santander)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
- 3other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador del Tombo, Mirador de La Cruz
- 119named peaks within 5 kmLos Traviesos, Torre de la Canal Parda, Torre Peñalba and 116 more
- 11marked trails within 3 kmPanderruedas-Posada de Valdeón, Montó (Valle de Prada), Vega de Llós and 8 more
- 8shelters and huts within 5 kmInvernales de Mesones, Chozo de Pantivalles, Chozo de Fuentes Torones and 5 more
- 10car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 km
- 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 14campsites within 10 kmPosada de Valdeón, El Cares, Emergency spot for 1 tent and 11 more
- 44places to stay within 10 kmAlbergue La Cuesta, Casa Rural Ezkurra, Hostal Casa Abascal and 41 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 Mirador del Tombo, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas30 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 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.
Mirador del Tombo
Spain
- 23Viewyas Score
- 11 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 852 mAltitude
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- 44Viewyas Score
- 32 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 731 mAltitude
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- 21Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q17622552) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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