Pico do Facho
- Isolation
- 55 km
- Tonight
- 19°CPartly cloudy · Wind 30 km/h NE
Pico do Facho is a 516 m (1,693 ft) mountain in Madeira, Portugal.
All facts
- Elevation
- 516 m · 1,693 ft
- Prominence
- 516 m · 1,693 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Penha de Águia (590 m)
- Region
- Madeira, Portugal
- Coordinates
- 33.0843° N, 16.3235° W
Pico do Facho 3D map
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Pico do Facho terrain and contours
20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Pico do Facho elevation profile
West → east through the summit
Pico do Facho weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 19°C (66°F) · Wind 30 km/h NE
Pico do Facho forecast for the summit, about 516 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about -3 m.
- Tonight19°–30 km/h NEBase 22°
- Sat17°19°0.1 mm32 km/h NEBase 20 / 22°
- Sun17°18°–30 km/h NEBase 20 / 21°
- Mon17°18°–19 km/h EBase 20 / 22°
- Tue18°19°0.7 mm26 km/h EBase 21 / 22°
- Wed18°19°0.2 mm20 km/h EBase 21 / 22°
- Thu18°19°–14 km/h SEBase 21 / 22°
- Fri18°18°0.1 mm13 km/h SEBase 21 / 21°
- Sat18°18°–16 km/h NBase 21 / 21°
- Sun18°18°0.5 mm20 km/h SBase 21 / 21°
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.
Slope
Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 65% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 9.6% of the 36 km² view
- Relief in view
- 506 m low point -3 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Pico do Facho summit.
Summit list 7
- 1Juliana439 m 0.9 km N
- 2Pico do Castelo437 m 1.1 km WSW
- 3Cabeço do Guilherme164 m 1.8 km NNW
- 4Portela162 m 2.1 km SSE
- 5Branco450 m 2.1 km ENE
- 6Concelho324 m 2.5 km ESE
- 7Maçarico286 m 2.8 km SE
Where Pico do Facho sits
Nearby places
Pico do Facho downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
12 m low This 3D map reads 504 m at the summit; the official height is 516 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 516 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 504 m | -12 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 489 m | -27 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-05)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Accuracy comparison
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia