Spain canyon rim
Sil Canyon
You can see 7 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 7 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).
- 7 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 68%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 295 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 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.
- Jansouth292 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Febsouth-west44 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Marwest70 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Aprwest76 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maywest88 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Junwest98 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Julwest92 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Augwest80 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Sepwest70 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Octwest58 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Novsouth-west56 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Decsouth266 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- 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
Sil Canyon.
Gorge and special area of conservation in Galicia, Spain
Sil Canyon is a canyon rim in Spain, 295 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 7 km away, looking south-west.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 68% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Canón do Silcampsite · 1.4 km · 3 within 10 km
- A Casa d'Abaixoplace to stay · 2.3 km · 24 within 10 km
- Lobiosnearest town · 4.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in LobiosBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 88 km in a straight lineCar hire at SCQ airport (Santiago de Compostela)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
- 24other viewpoints within 5 kmMiradoiro de Cadeiras, Miradoiro dos Torgás, Miradoiro da Fontiña and 21 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmPorto dos Carros
- 2marked trails within 3 kmCanón do Sil - Santa Cristina, Transourensán
- 1shelters and huts within 5 kmPraza do Barquilleiro
- 9car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmCanón do Sil, Área de Autocaravanas Privada Casa Julio, Solpor Camperpark Experience
- 24places to stay within 10 kmA Casa d'Abaixo, Casa O Torgal, Hotel O Balcón da Ribeira and 21 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 Sil Canyon, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas9 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 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.
Sil Canyon
Spain
- 23Viewyas Score
- 7 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 295 mAltitude
O Ézaro viewpoint
Spain · 138 km
- 54Viewyas Score
- 65 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 285 mAltitude
Miradouro de la Peinha de l Puio
Portugal · 150 km
- 46Viewyas Score
- 9 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 636 mAltitude
Miradouro de Freixiosa
Portugal · 151 km
- 45Viewyas Score
- 8 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 632 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q14916370) · 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, Lakeyas, Canyonyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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