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Morro Spitzkopf

You can see 163 km from here, looking north.

74Viewyas Score

ViewpointSunsetSea view360°Long view

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 163 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.

74out 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).

  • 163 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 15%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 881 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 2 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.

Araçatuba1,673 m · 126 km · northMorro da Boa Vista1,827 m · 100 km · south

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.

  1. Jansouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  2. Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  3. Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  4. Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  5. Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  6. Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  7. Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  8. Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  10. Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  11. Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  12. Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  • 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

Morro Spitzkopf.

Morro Spitzkopf is a scenic viewpoint in Brazil, 881 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 163 km away, looking north.

The sea fills 15% of the horizon.

2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Morro da Boa Vista (1,827 m), 100 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Morro Spitzkopf
Emerson Verissimo · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Morro SpitzkopfGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Morro SpitzkopfBooking.comSee prices Car hire at FLN airport (Florianópolis)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.

Morro Spitzkopf 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

  • 2other viewpoints within 5 kmMirante Spitzkopf, Mirante Morro do Sapo
  • 6named peaks within 5 kmSpitzkopf, Morro do Cego, Morro da Bandeira and 3 more
  • 1campsites within 10 kmRecanto Silvestre
  • 10places to stay within 10 kmPousada Rio da Prata Eco, Sítio Cascata da Serra, Hotel de Trânsito 23 BI and 7 more
  • 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

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 Morro Spitzkopf, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
Morro Spitzkopf · this placeMorro do Cego · 4.2 kmMorro dos Porcos · 9.4 kmSerra da Varzinha · 9.6 kmMorro do Serrote · 11 kmMorro Garcia · 12 kmMorro Gaspar Alto · 12 kmMorro Ponta Aguda · 15 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Parque Ecológico Spitzkopf em 2015
Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q10332421) · 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
Sister atlasesPeakyas

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

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