Spain scenic viewpoint
Mirador del Estrecho
You can see 207 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 207 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).
- 207 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 94%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 18%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 333 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 6 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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Aprwest24 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Maywest36 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Junnorth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset74%
- Julwest38 min before the sea-level sunset84%
- Augwest28 min before the sea-level sunset80%
- Sepwest18 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- 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 del Estrecho.
Viewpoint in Cádiz Province
Mirador del Estrecho is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 333 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 207 km away, looking south-east.
The sea fills 18% of the horizon.
6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Jebel Moussa (830 m), 22 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 94% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Área de Autocaravanas de Tarifacampsite · 6.7 km · 8 within 10 km
- Hotel Meson de Sanchoplace to stay · 2.4 km · 83 within 10 km
- Tarifanearest town · 6.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in TarifaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Gibraltar Airport (GIB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 21 km in a straight lineCar hire at TNG airport (Tangier)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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador del Estrecho, Centro Expositivo de la Migracion de Aves, Mirador Cerro del Tambor and 10 more
- 3marked trails within 3 kmCamino de Santiago del Estrecho, Sendero Europeo Arco Mediteraneo - Etapa 1, Sendero Río Guadalmesí
- 8shelters and huts within 5 kmOld bunker and 7 more
- 5car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmOficina de información, Huerta Grande
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 8campsites within 10 kmÁrea de Autocaravanas de Tarifa, Rio Jara, Camping Tarifa and 5 more
- 83places to stay within 10 kmHotel Meson de Sancho, FINCA, Banti and 80 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 Mirador del Estrecho, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas64 mountains within 25 km
Coastya4 beaches within 10 km
Cavernyas14 caves within 20 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 del Estrecho
Spain
- 82Viewyas Score
- 207 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 333 mAltitude
Jebel Moussa
Morocco · 21 km
- 94Viewyas Score
- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 26Peaks in view
- 819 mAltitude
Balcón de Europa
Spain · 168 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 92 kmFarthest ridge
- 12Peaks in view
- 27 mAltitude
Mulhacén
Spain · 229 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 33Peaks in view
- 3,457 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1696136) · 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, Birdyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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