Brazil summit
Corcovado
You can see 176 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 176 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).
- 176 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 36%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 4Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 750 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 4 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 June 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.
- Janwest48 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Febwest34 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Marwest18 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Octwest30 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novwest44 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Decwest48 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- 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
Corcovado.
Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, known for the Christ Statue
Corcovado is a summit in Brazil, 750 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 176 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 36% of the horizon.
4 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pedra da Gávea (842 m), 7 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to August.
Get there and stay
- AP do Rio de Janeirocampsite · 5.5 km · 2 within 10 km
- Hostel Sun Rioplace to stay · 3.0 km · 382 within 10 km
- Botafogonearest town · 3.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BotafogoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Santos Dumont Airport (SDU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 7 km in a straight lineCar hire at SDU airport (Rio de Janeiro)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
- 57other viewpoints within 5 kmIrmão Menor, Mirante da Cardoso Júnior, Mirante do Pasmado and 54 more
- 68named peaks within 5 kmIrmão Menor, Morro dos Cabritos, Morro de São João and 65 more
- 15cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmPraia Vermelha, Morro da Urca, Plano Inclinado do Outeiro da Glória and 12 more
- 13shelters and huts within 5 kmLepa, Estação II and 11 more
- 162car parks within 3 km
- 15visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Information, Visit Rio and 13 more
- 305restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmAP do Rio de Janeiro, Descampado com bancos de troncos
- 382places to stay within 10 kmHostel Sun Rio, Royal Rio Palace Hotel, Copacabana Praia Hotel and 379 more
- 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 Corcovado, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas286 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas13 waterfalls within 15 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.
Corcovado
Brazil
- 82Viewyas Score
- 176 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 750 mAltitude
Sugarloaf Mountain
Brazil · 6 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 187 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 295 mAltitude
Vista Chinesa
Brazil · 5 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 130 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 440 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q506938) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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