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Miradouro da Lua

You can see 33 km from here, looking south.

58Viewyas Score

CliffSunsetSea view360°

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 33 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.

58out 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).

  • 33 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
  • 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 42%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 74 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 May 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. Janwest2 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  2. Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  3. Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  4. Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  5. Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset58%
  6. Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  7. Julwest2 min before the sea-level sunset57%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset52%
  10. Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  11. Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  • 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

Miradouro da Lua.

Miradouro da Lua is a cliff in Angola, 74 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 33 km away, looking south.

The sea fills 42% of the horizon.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from May to August.

Miradouro da Lua
jlrsousa · CC BY-SA 2.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Miradouro da LuaGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Miradouro da LuaBooking.comSee prices Car hire at LAD airport (Luanda)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.

Miradouro da Lua 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

    • other viewpoints within 5 km
    • named peaks within 5 km
    • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
    • marked trails within 3 km
    • shelters and huts within 5 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • visitor centres within 5 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km

    Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

    Photographs

    The view, as people saw it.

    Miradouro da Lua 2
    Mayada Marrom · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Miradouro da Lua 3
    Mayada Marrom · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Miradouro da Lua - 2
    Felipe Miguel · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q10330512) · 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

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

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