Spain scenic viewpoint
Mirador de la Rabassada
You can see 194 km from here, looking south.
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 194 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).
- 194 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 36%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 292Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 423 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 292 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 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.
- Jansouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Maywest26 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Junnorth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Julnorth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset66%
- Augwest20 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Novsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Decsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- 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
Mirador de la Rabassada.
Scenic viewpoint
Mirador de la Rabassada is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 423 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 194 km away, looking south.
The sea fills 36% of the horizon.
292 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Puigmal (2,910 m), 106 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Wheels Restcampsite · 2.1 km · 4 within 10 km
- ibis Barcelona Meridianaplace to stay · 4.2 km · 881 within 10 km
- Montbaunearest town · 0.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MontbauBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 16 km in a straight lineCar hire at BCN airport (Barcelona)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
- 91other viewpoints within 5 kmPark Güell, Mirador de Sarrià, Turó del Carmel and 88 more
- 57named peaks within 5 kmTuró de Collserola, Turó de Miralluna, Turó del Puig and 54 more
- 20cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmFunicular de Vallvidrera, Funicular del Tibidabo and 18 more
- 19marked trails within 3 kmSender de Montserrat, Camí Romeu a Montserrat, Carenejant Collserola and 16 more
- 198shelters and huts within 5 kmSeu del Districte de Nou Barris, Refugi climàtic Biblioteca Collserola-Josep Miracle, Refugi climàtic Centre Esportiu Municipal Can Cuyàs and 195 more
- 204car parks within 3 km
- 14visitor centres within 5 kmCentre d'Informació de Catalunya, Parc Güell, Official Tourist Information and 11 more
- 364restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmWheels Rest, Garaje Camión CAMALEON, Área de la Colònia Güell and 1 more
- 881places to stay within 10 kmibis Barcelona Meridiana, Catalonia Diagonal Centro, Hotel Glòries and 878 more
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 Mirador de la Rabassada, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas259 mountains within 25 km
Coastya9 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas15 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Mirador de la Rabassada
Spain
- 90Viewyas Score
- 194 kmFarthest ridge
- 292Peaks in view
- 423 mAltitude
Mirador de la Mitja lluna
Spain · 3 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 187 kmFarthest ridge
- 193Peaks in view
- 203 mAltitude
Montserrat
Spain · 33 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 225 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,386Peaks in view
- 1,194 mAltitude
Mirador de la plaça de l'Església
Spain · 16 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 39 kmFarthest ridge
- 53Peaks in view
- 36 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q21789897) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas, 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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