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Despeñaperros

You can see 10 km from here, looking north.

41Viewyas Score

Canyon rim

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 10 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.

41out of 100

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).

  • 10 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 87%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 695 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 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.

  1. Jansouth-west78 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  2. Febsouth-west60 min before the sea-level sunset49%
  3. Marwest36 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  4. Aprwest38 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  5. Maywest56 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  6. Junwest68 min before the sea-level sunset69%
  7. Julwest64 min before the sea-level sunset84%
  8. Augwest44 min before the sea-level sunset78%
  9. Sepwest30 min before the sea-level sunset63%
  10. Octwest50 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  11. Novsouth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset48%
  12. Decsouth-west74 min before the sea-level sunset45%
  • 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

Despeñaperros.

Mountain pass

Despeñaperros is a canyon rim in Spain, 695 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 10 km away, looking north.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 87% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Parque Despeñaperros1
Veinticuatro de Jahén · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for DespeñaperrosGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near DespeñaperrosBooking.comSee prices Car hire at GRX airport (Granada)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Despeñaperros seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 5other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador de Despeñaperros, Mirador Cerro de los Órganos, Repisa Maremoto and 2 more
  • 18named peaks within 5 kmCerro de los ôrganos;Cerro de los Órganos, Peñón del Triste, Peña de Malabrigo and 15 more
  • 4marked trails within 3 kmLa Cueva de los Muñecos, Barranco de Valdeazores, Castañar de Valdeazores and 1 more
  • 7shelters and huts within 5 kmAbrigo de Valdeazores, Cueva de los Muñecos, Abrigo del Castillo and 4 more
  • 11car parks within 3 km
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmDespeñaperros
  • 5places to stay within 10 kmLa Teja, Casa Rural Finca el Collado de los Jardines, El Mesón de Despeñaperros and 2 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • visitor centres 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 Despeñaperros, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
Loma del Retamoso · 7.9 kmLomas de Don Rodrigo · 23 kmLoma del Bachiller · 23 kmCerro de la Yedra · 24 kmSierra del Acebuche · 24 kmLoma de Barrios · 24 kmCerro Lobero · 25 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Zona de Importancia Comunitaria Despeñaperros103 species · 1.9 kmLa Cimbarra86 species · 11 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Despeñaperros · this placeDespeñaperros · 2.9 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 km
Cascada del Negrillo · 11 kmLa Cimbarra · 11 kmCascada de la Cimbarra · 11 kmCascada de La Cimbarrilla · 12 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

P n despenaperros
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Parque Despeñaperros2
Veinticuatro de Jahén · CC BY-SA 4.0
Carro de lanzamiento de dovelas. Viaducto de Despeñaperros
Felipe Gabaldón · CC BY 2.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Despeñaperros

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  • 41Viewyas Score
  • 10 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 695 mAltitude

Mulhacén

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  • 91Viewyas Score
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  • 33Peaks in view
  • 3,457 mAltitude

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Balcón de Europa

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  • 81Viewyas Score
  • 92 kmFarthest ridge
  • 12Peaks in view
  • 27 mAltitude

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Faro de Moncloa

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  • 75Viewyas Score
  • 109 kmFarthest ridge
  • 52Peaks in view
  • 658 mAltitude

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q111575109) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Birdyas, Canyonyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit