Spain observation tower
Torre de Sanitja
You can see 22 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 22 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).
- 22 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 42%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 9 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 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 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset75%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset70%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- 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
Torre de Sanitja.
Defense tower in Fornells, Menorca
Torre de Sanitja is an observation tower in Spain.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 22 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 42% of the horizon.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is El Toro (349 m), 10 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- minorcavacanzaplace to stay · 3.3 km · 18 within 10 km
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- Menorca Airport (MAH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 26 km in a straight lineCar hire at MAH airport (Mahón)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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmFar de Cavalleria, Torre de Fornells and 11 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmCamí de Cavalls
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 13car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmCasa del Contramestre
- 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 km
- 18places to stay within 10 kmminorcavacanza, Comitas Tramontana Park, La Palma and 15 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 Torre de Sanitja, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Coastya6 beaches within 10 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas2 caves 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.
Torre de Sanitja
Spain
- 62Viewyas Score
- 22 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 9 mAltitude
Mirador d'en Josep Sastre
Spain · 155 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 127 kmFarthest ridge
- 19Peaks in view
- 452 mAltitude
Mirador de les Barques
Spain · 120 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 79 kmFarthest ridge
- 7Peaks in view
- 425 mAltitude
Mirador de la Rabassada
Spain · 223 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 194 kmFarthest ridge
- 292Peaks in view
- 423 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q38500095) · 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, 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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