Spain scenic viewpoint
Scenic overlook of Arbaiun
You can see 37 km from here, looking north-east.
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 37 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).
- 37 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 90%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 9Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 670 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 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.
- Jansouth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Febwest24 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Aprwest30 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maywest46 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Junnorth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Julnorth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Augwest38 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Sepwest22 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Octwest20 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Novsouth-west32 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Decsouth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- 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
Scenic overlook of Arbaiun.
Scenic overlook of Arbaiun is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 670 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 37 km away, looking north-east.
9 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kartxela (1,979 m), 38 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 90% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Camping Iturberocampsite · 11 km · 2 within 10 km
- Albergue Sierra de Leyreplace to stay · 8.0 km · 7 within 10 km
- Navascuésnearest town · 6.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in NavascuésBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Pamplona Airport (PNA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 39 km in a straight lineCar hire at BIQ airport (Biarritz)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
- 5other viewpoints within 5 kmFoz de Arbaiun, Balcon de la foz, Mirador del Balcón de Biscalceta and 2 more
- 39named peaks within 5 kmCerro del Soto, Cerro del Cristo, Monteidorra and 36 more
- 5car parks within 3 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Iturbero
- 7places to stay within 10 kmAlbergue Sierra de Leyre, Hostal Restaurante Arangoiti, Señorío de Monjardín and 4 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- visitor centres 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 Scenic overlook of Arbaiun, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas76 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Canyonyas3 canyons within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Scenic overlook of Arbaiun
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- 52Viewyas Score
- 37 kmFarthest ridge
- 9Peaks in view
- 670 mAltitude
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- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 646Peaks in view
- 3,310 mAltitude
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- 20Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q141256076) · 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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