Brazil scenic viewpoint
Alto da Sé, Olinda
You can see 76 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 76 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).
- 76 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 52%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 58 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 August to November.
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.
- Janwest4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Julwest4 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset63%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- 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
Alto da Sé, Olinda.
Alto da Sé, Olinda is a scenic viewpoint in Brazil, 58 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 76 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 52% of the horizon.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from August to November.
Get there and stay
- Pousada d'Olindaplace to stay · 0.3 km · 107 within 10 km
- Olindanearest town · 0.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in OlindaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Recife/Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International Airport (REC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 km in a straight lineCar hire at REC airport (Recife)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
- 7other viewpoints within 5 kmObservatório da Sé, Caixa D'Agua and 5 more
- 19shelters and huts within 5 km
- 33car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmCasa Do Turista
- 55restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 107places to stay within 10 kmPousada d'Olinda, Pousada Alto Astral, Edf Belém Colonial and 104 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- campsites within 10 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 Alto da Sé, Olinda, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Coastya7 beaches within 10 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Alto da Sé, Olinda
Brazil
- 70Viewyas Score
- 76 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 58 mAltitude
Mirante do Atalaia de Forte Velho
Brazil · 114 km
- 70Viewyas Score
- 86 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 74 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q46994631) · 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, Coastya, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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