United Kingdom cliff
Craig Portas
You can see 109 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 109 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).
- 109 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 240Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 594 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 240 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 April to May, in July and in 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest16 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Maynorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Augwest22 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- 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
Craig Portas.
Hill (604.1m) in Gwynedd
Craig Portas is a cliff in United Kingdom, 594 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 109 km away, looking south-west.
240 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pen y Fan (886 m), 95 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May, in July and in September.
Get there and stay
- Ty'n Y Pwll Caravan Parkcampsite · 5.8 km · 30 within 10 km
- Penybryn Cottageplace to stay · 4.3 km · 38 within 10 km
- Corrisnearest town · 8.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in CorrisBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 93 km in a straight lineCar hire at LPL airport (Liverpool)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
- 4other viewpoints within 5 kmBwlch (Top Ledge / Middle Ledge), Cad West, Cad East and 1 more
- 43named peaks within 5 kmMynydd Cwmcelli (Craig Goch), Mynydd Dolgoed, Maesglase (Craig Rhiw-erch) and 40 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmCambrian Way
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 30campsites within 10 kmTy'n Y Pwll Caravan Park, Celyn Brithion, Dyfi Adventure Campsite and 27 more
- 38places to stay within 10 kmPenybryn Cottage, Gwengraig Self Catering Cottage, Dolserau Hall and 35 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés 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 Craig Portas, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas484 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas9 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Craig Portas
United Kingdom
- 69Viewyas Score
- 109 kmFarthest ridge
- 240Peaks in view
- 594 mAltitude
Snowdon
United Kingdom · 45 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 213 kmFarthest ridge
- 556Peaks in view
- 1,051 mAltitude
Snowdonia
United Kingdom · 22 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 177 kmFarthest ridge
- 204Peaks in view
- 604 mAltitude
Clogwyn Du'r Arddu
United Kingdom · 46 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 192 kmFarthest ridge
- 83Peaks in view
- 752 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q20594799) · 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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