Portugal scenic viewpoint
Miradouro do Pico do Paul
You can see 171 km from here, looking north-west.
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 171 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).
- 171 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 62%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 8Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 811 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 8 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-westsets on an open horizon19%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Aprwest16 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Maywest18 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Julnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Augwest18 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Sepwest18 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-westsets on an open horizon20%
- Decsouth-west-2 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 Paul.
Miradouro do Pico do Paul is a scenic viewpoint in Portugal, 811 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 171 km away, looking north-west.
The sea fills 62% of the horizon.
8 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pico da Vara (1,103 m), 47 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Parque de Campismo das Sete Cidadescampsite · 4.9 km · 2 within 10 km
- Eco-Turismoplace to stay · 5.9 km · 115 within 10 km
- São Vicentenearest town · 7.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in São VicenteBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- João Paulo II Airport (PDL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 10 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
- 33other viewpoints within 5 kmMiradouro da Vista do Rei, Miradouro da Lagoa de Santiago, Miradouro do Cerrado das Freiras and 30 more
- 7named peaks within 5 kmPico do Boi, Pico do Cedro, Pico do Mariana and 4 more
- 2marked trails within 3 kmPR04SMI Mata do Canário - Sete Cidades, PRC5SMI Serra Devassa
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 12car parks within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmParque de Campismo das Sete Cidades, Quinta da Canada - Maia
- 115places to stay within 10 kmEco-Turismo, Hotel Solar Do Conde, Casa Felicitas and 112 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés 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 Pico do Paul, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 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 Paul
Portugal
- 83Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 811 mAltitude
Boca do Inferno Viewpoint
Portugal · 2 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 799 mAltitude
Miradouro da Ponta do Escalvado
Portugal · 10 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 161 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 221 mAltitude
Miradouro da Ponta da Ferraria
Portugal · 10 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 163 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 157 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q10330579) · 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, 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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