Argentina scenic viewpoint
Torre Monumental
You can see 18 km from here, looking south-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 18 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).
- 18 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 32%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 12 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
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 December to March.
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-west12 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Febwest14 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Octwest14 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Novwest14 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- 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
Torre Monumental.
Clock tower in Buenos Aires
Torre Monumental is a scenic viewpoint in Argentina.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 18 km away, looking south-east.
The sea fills 32% of the horizon.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from December to March.
Get there and stay
- Exe Hotel Colónplace to stay · 1.3 km · 627 within 10 km
- Retironearest town · 1.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in RetiroBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 5 km in a straight lineCar hire at EZE airport (Buenos Aires)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
- 37other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador Galería Güemes, Buena vista, Puente de la Mujer and 34 more
- 8shelters and huts within 5 kmPérgola Iwate, Glorieta and 6 more
- 472car parks within 3 km
- 15visitor centres within 5 kmCentro de Atención al Turista: Casco Histórico, Centro de Atención al Turista: Recoleta, Centro de Atención al Turista: Retiro and 12 more
- 1,194restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 627places to stay within 10 kmExe Hotel Colón, Alvear Palace Hotel, Hotel Bristol and 624 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails 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 Torre Monumental, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Forestyas3 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas3 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.
Torre Monumental
Argentina
- 58Viewyas Score
- 18 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 12 mAltitude
Torre Espacial
Argentina · 11 km
- 52Viewyas Score
- 25 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
Cerro San Antonio
Uruguay · 285 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 66 kmFarthest ridge
- 7Peaks in view
- 127 mAltitude
Cerro Catedral
Uruguay · 340 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 111 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 507 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q570385) · 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 | Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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