Spain scenic viewpoint
Balcón de Pilatos
You can see 128 km from here, looking south-east.
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 128 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).
- 128 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 24Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 935 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 24 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 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-west28 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Febwest22 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest20 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- 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
Balcón de Pilatos.
Balcón de Pilatos is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 935 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 128 km away, looking south-east.
24 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Aketegi (1,551 m), 23 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Camping Artaza-Urederracampsite · 4.0 km · 4 within 10 km
- Casa Lizarrosta en nacedero del Urederraplace to stay · 2.6 km · 31 within 10 km
- Eulatenearest town · 6.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in EulateBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Pamplona Airport (PNA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 40 km in a straight lineCar hire at BIO airport (Bilbao)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
- 8other viewpoints within 5 kmUbaba balkoia and 7 more
- 7named peaks within 5 kmLarregoiko, Agileta, Bretxagaina and 4 more
- 2marked trails within 3 kmArtzaintza naturbidea, Nacedero del Urederra
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 12car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmCentro de información del Nacedero del Urederra
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmCamping Artaza-Urederra, Urbasa, Artabia and 1 more
- 31places to stay within 10 kmCasa Lizarrosta en nacedero del Urederra, Irigoyen, Casa Rural Lazkano en Urbasa and 28 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 Balcón de Pilatos, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas88 mountains within 25 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
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- 71Viewyas Score
- 128 kmFarthest ridge
- 24Peaks in view
- 935 mAltitude
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Nervión Waterfall
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q29512030) · 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, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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