Portugal scenic viewpoint
Miradouro do Pico do Ferro
You can see 96 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 96 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).
- 96 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 23%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 4Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 549 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 4 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-west20 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest16 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Maywest22 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Junnorth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Julnorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Sepwest14 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest14 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- 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 Pico do Ferro.
Miradouro do Pico do Ferro is a scenic viewpoint in Portugal, 549 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 96 km away, looking south.
The sea fills 23% of the horizon.
4 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pico Alto (587 m), 90 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Parque de Campismo das Furnascampsite · 2.3 km · 2 within 10 km
- Casa das Furnasplace to stay · 1.3 km · 62 within 10 km
- Furnasnearest town · 2.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in FurnasBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- João Paulo II Airport (PDL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 32 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
- 23other viewpoints within 5 kmCastelo Branco, Pico do Ferro, Miradouro Lombo Dos Milhos and 20 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmPico do Gaspar, Pico do Ferro, Cedros
- 5marked trails within 3 kmPRC06SMI Lagoa das Furnas, PRC22SMI Grená - Pico do Ferro, Trilho para a Cascata and 2 more
- 1shelters and huts within 5 kmMirante "O Açucareiro"
- 34car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmPosto de Turismo
- 17restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmParque de Campismo das Furnas, Parque Campismo Porto Formoso
- 62places to stay within 10 kmCasa das Furnas, Furnas Valley Design House, Apartments Camélia and 59 more
- 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 Miradouro do Pico do Ferro, 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
Coastya6 beaches within 10 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas5 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 Pico do Ferro
Portugal
- 68Viewyas Score
- 96 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 549 mAltitude
Miradouro do Pico do Paul
Portugal · 37 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 811 mAltitude
Miradouro do Salto do Cavalo
Portugal · 5 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 107 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 767 mAltitude
Boca do Inferno Viewpoint
Portugal · 39 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 799 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q10330577) · 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, Birdyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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