Portugal scenic viewpoint
Miradouro de São João das Arribas
You can see 5 km from here, looking south-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 5 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).
- 5 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 91%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 670 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
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 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-west30 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Febwest38 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Marwest46 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Aprwest50 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Maywest62 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Junwest66 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Julwest64 min before the sea-level sunset74%
- Augwest54 min before the sea-level sunset69%
- Sepwest46 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Octwest40 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Novsouth-west32 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Decsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- 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
Miradouro de São João das Arribas.
Viewpoint over the Douro river, Portugal
Miradouro de São João das Arribas is a scenic viewpoint in Portugal, 670 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 5 km away, looking south-west.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 91% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Douro Campingcampsite · 7.4 km · 1 within 10 km
- Casa dos Edrasplace to stay · 0.9 km · 22 within 10 km
- Villardiegua de la Riberanearest town · 3.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Villardiegua de la RiberaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Bragança Airport (BGC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 54 km in a straight lineCar hire in ZamoraDiscover 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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmMiradouro Penha Laila, Miradouro de São João das Arribas, Mirador del Ponton and 7 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmCazebo Llongo, Peña del Cuso, Robledo
- 3marked trails within 3 kmSão João das Arribas, GR36 - Grande Rota do Douro Internacional, Etapa 23: Villardiegua de la Ribera – Torregamones
- 3shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmPuosto de Turismo, Centro Tematico
- 1campsites within 10 kmDouro Camping
- 22places to stay within 10 kmCasa dos Edras, Puial de l Douro, Cimo da Quinta and 19 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Miradouro de São João das Arribas, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas6 mountains within 25 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.
Miradouro de São João das Arribas
Portugal
- 42Viewyas Score
- 5 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 670 mAltitude
Miradouro de Freixiosa
Portugal · 15 km
- 45Viewyas Score
- 8 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 632 mAltitude
Miradouro de la Peinha de l Puio
Portugal · 20 km
- 46Viewyas Score
- 9 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 636 mAltitude
Faro de Moncloa
Spain · 243 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 109 kmFarthest ridge
- 52Peaks in view
- 658 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q75839433) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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