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Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome and Principe summit

Pico Cão Grande

You can see 84 km from here, looking north-east.

66Viewyas Score

SummitSunsetSea view360°

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 84 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.

66out 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).

  • 84 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 73%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 475 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.

Pico Cão Grande668 m · 2.5 km · northPico de São Tomé2,024 m · 19 km · north

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 June and from December to January.

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. Janwestsets on an open horizon27%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon24%
  3. Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  4. Aprwestsets on an open horizon22%
  5. Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  6. Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  7. Julwestsets on an open horizon25%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  10. Octwestsets on an open horizon23%
  11. Novwestsets on an open horizon26%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  • 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

Pico Cão Grande.

Mountain in São Tomé and Príncipe

Pico Cão Grande is a summit in Sao Tome and Principe, 475 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 84 km away, looking north-east.

The sea fills 73% of the horizon.

2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pico de São Tomé (2,024 m), 19 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in June and from December to January.

2012SaoTome-470 (8042896150)
Helena Van Eykeren from Gent, Belgium · CC BY 2.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Pico Cão GrandeGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Pico Cão GrandeBooking.comSee prices Car hire at POG airport (Port Gentil)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.

Pico Cão Grande 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

  • 1other viewpoints within 5 kmPico do Cão Grande
  • 9named peaks within 5 kmPico Cão Grande, Pico Cao Pequeno, Aida and 6 more
  • 7places to stay within 10 kmMionga, Vanha Plantation House, Kela Guest House and 4 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
  • campsites within 10 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 Pico Cão Grande, and what is near.

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

Peakyas50 mountains within 25 km
Pico Cão Grande · this placePico Cão Grande668 m · 0.1 kmGodins416 m · 12 kmBotija416 m · 12 kmPico Charuto1,129 m · 15 kmPinheiro1,306 m · 16 kmPico de São Tomé2,024 m · volcano · 17 kmMonte de Dentro885 m · 17 kmMonte Castro639 m · 22 km
Islandyasthe island
São Tomé Island855 km²
Coastya21 beaches within 10 km
Praia Sambangombe · 6.5 kmPesqueira · 6.9 kmPraia Azeitona · 7.0 kmPraia Xixi · 7.5 kmPraia Zabagor · 8.1 kmPraia do Ió · 8.2 kmPraia Vá-Inhá · 9.2 kmPraia Pequena · 9.9 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.

Pico Cão Grande
Philippe Bourachot · CC BY-SA 3.0
Japanese team on the way to Pico Cão Grande
Moriyama Kenichi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cão Grande et Cão Pequeno à São Tomé (1)
Ji-Elle · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Pico Cão Grande

Sao Tome and Principe

  • 66Viewyas Score
  • 84 kmFarthest ridge
  • 2Peaks in view
  • 475 mAltitude

Pico de São Tomé

Sao Tome and Principe · 17 km

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 215 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 1,969 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2082148) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya

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

The family

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