Portugal scenic viewpoint
Miradouro de Santa Catarina
You can see 89 km from here, looking 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 89 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).
- 89 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 57 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Maynorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Julnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Augwest14 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Decsouth-west4 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
Miradouro de Santa Catarina.
Miradouro de Santa Catarina is a scenic viewpoint in Portugal, 57 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 89 km away, looking east.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Arrábida Mountain (501 m), 28 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
- Lisboa Campingcampsite · 5.3 km · 13 within 10 km
- Lisb'on Hostelplace to stay · 0.3 km · 837 within 10 km
- Bairro Altonearest town · 0.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Bairro AltoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 8 km in a straight lineCar hire at LIS airport (Lisbon)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
- 104other viewpoints within 5 kmMiradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara, Torre de São Lourenço, Alto da Serafina and 101 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmMonsanto, Raposo
- 11cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmFunicular da Graça, Teleférico, Elevador da Glória and 8 more
- 10marked trails within 3 kmVolta do Planalto, Rota da Água, Montado de Monsanto and 7 more
- 136shelters and huts within 5 kmRua Joaquim António de Aguiar, Areeiro and 134 more
- 1,548car parks within 3 km
- 20visitor centres within 5 kmPosto de Turismo de Cacilhas, ask me Lisboa, Metro Sul do Tejo and 17 more
- 2,519restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 13campsites within 10 kmLisboa Camping, Fábrica do Braço de Prata, Area Serviço Autocaravana Corroios and 10 more
- 837places to stay within 10 kmLisb'on Hostel, Pensão Residencial Portuense, Hotel Jorge V and 834 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 Miradouro de Santa Catarina, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas27 mountains within 25 km
Coastya9 beaches within 10 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Miradouro de Santa Catarina
Portugal
- 60Viewyas Score
- 89 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 57 mAltitude
Miradouro da Graça
Portugal · 2 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 102 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 92 mAltitude
Miradouro da Senhora do Monte
Portugal · 2 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 102 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 95 mAltitude
Miradouro de Santa Luzia
Portugal · 2 km
- 58Viewyas Score
- 88 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 74 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q10306318) · 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, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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