Spain cliff
Risco Faneque
You can see 228 km from here, looking 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 228 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).
- 228 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 41%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 9Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 954 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 9 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 September.
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 horizon42%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon42%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon40%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Maywest6 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon49%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon39%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon41%
- 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
Risco Faneque.
Mountain in Spain
Risco Faneque is a cliff in Spain, 954 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 228 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 41% of the horizon.
9 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Teide (3,715 m), 94 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in September.
Get there and stay
- Llanos de La Mimbrecampsite · 2.1 km · 1 within 10 km
- Bed&Breakfast Charco Azulplace to stay · 2.0 km · 43 within 10 km
- Agaetenearest town · 4.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AgaeteBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Gran Canaria Airport (LPA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 36 km in a straight lineCar hire at LPA airport (Gran Canaria Island)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
- 36other viewpoints within 5 kmMorro de Las Lechugas, Mirador del Reventón, Vuelta del Palomar and 33 more
- 15named peaks within 5 kmRoque de las Nieves, Tamadaba, Roque Faneque and 12 more
- 8marked trails within 3 kmPatrimonio Mundial de Gran Canaria, GR 131 Agaete - El Burreo, S.L.02 Carco Azul and 5 more
- 20shelters and huts within 5 kmCueva-refugio and 19 more
- 10car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmOficina Información Turística
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmLlanos de La Mimbre
- 43places to stay within 10 kmBed&Breakfast Charco Azul, Hotel El Cabo, Apartamentos El Angosto and 40 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 Risco Faneque, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 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.
Risco Faneque
Spain
- 85Viewyas Score
- 228 kmFarthest ridge
- 9Peaks in view
- 954 mAltitude
Roque Nublo
Spain · 14 km
- 89Viewyas Score
- 236 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 1,731 mAltitude
The Friar's Rock
Spain · 91 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 137 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 16 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q23985832) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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