Portugal scenic viewpoint
Miradouro do Ilhéu de Rosto de Cão
You can see 18 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 18 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).
- 18 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 39%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 17 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 3 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 in 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 sunset30%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest20 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maywest28 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Junnorth-west32 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Julnorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Augwest22 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Sepwest14 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- 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 do Ilhéu de Rosto de Cão.
Miradouro do Ilhéu de Rosto de Cão is a scenic viewpoint in Portugal.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 18 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 39% of the horizon.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pico Alto (587 m), 98 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Quinta da Canada - Maiacampsite · 2.1 km · 2 within 10 km
- Residência Universitáriaplace to stay · 1.1 km · 136 within 10 km
- Rosto de Cãonearest town · 0.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Rosto de CãoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- João Paulo II Airport (PDL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 5 km in a straight lineCar hire at PDL airport (Ponta Delgada)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 kmIlha de São Miguel, Ponta dos Caetanos, Alto da Mãe de Deus and 10 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmSerra Gorda, Cruz
- 3shelters and huts within 5 km
- 230car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmDelegação de Turismo de São Miguel, Futurismo Azores Adventures, Picos de Aventura
- 147restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmQuinta da Canada - Maia, Parque de Campismo Quinta das Laranjeiras
- 136places to stay within 10 kmResidência Universitária, Aparthotel Barracuda, Solar da Glória ao Carmo and 133 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 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 Miradouro do Ilhéu de Rosto de Cão, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Darkskyas6 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 do Ilhéu de Rosto de Cão
Portugal
- 56Viewyas Score
- 18 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 17 mAltitude
Miradouro do Pico do Paul
Portugal · 13 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 811 mAltitude
Boca do Inferno Viewpoint
Portugal · 15 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 799 mAltitude
Miradouro do Caminho Novo
Portugal · 8 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 107 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 161 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q10330561) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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