Spain scenic viewpoint
The Friar's Rock
You can see 137 km from here, looking 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 137 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).
- 137 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 92%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 36%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 11Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 16 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 11 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-west22 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Decsouth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- 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
The Friar's Rock.
The Friar's Rock is a scenic viewpoint in Spain.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 137 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 36% of the horizon.
11 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Teide (3,715 m), 18 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 92% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Parkplatz beim Leuchtturm von Puerto de la Cruzcampsite · 0.3 km · 10 within 10 km
- Hotel Valle Orotovaplace to stay · 0.4 km · 150 within 10 km
- Puerto de la Cruznearest town · 0.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Puerto de la CruzBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (TFN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 22 km in a straight lineCar hire at TFN airport (Tenerife)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
- 32other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador de la Paz, Punta del Viento, Mirador Dulce María Loynaz and 29 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmRoque Chico, Roque Grande, Pejes Reyes
- 4shelters and huts within 5 km
- 179car parks within 3 km
- 8visitor centres within 5 kmInformación Turística, Oficina de turismo, Punto de información turística and 5 more
- 317restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 10campsites within 10 kmParkplatz beim Leuchtturm von Puerto de la Cruz, Área Recreativa y Acampada de Chanajiga (Los Realejos), Zona de Acampada de La Caldera and 7 more
- 150places to stay within 10 kmHotel Valle Orotova, Los Geranios, Marte and 147 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails 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 The Friar's Rock, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas36 mountains within 25 km
Coastya8 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees 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.
Other viewpoints nearby.
The Friar's Rock
Spain
- 81Viewyas Score
- 137 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 16 mAltitude
Viewpoit Pico Viejo
Spain · 18 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 229 kmFarthest ridge
- 12Peaks in view
- 3,565 mAltitude
Mirador Juan Evóra
Spain · 26 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 174 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 2,072 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q116761380) · 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, 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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