Hotels at Vale de França booking.com

Vale de França

Booking.com

Vale de França

General information - Location

Country	Portugal
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -8.5596,Lat: 37.1275
Elevation	26 meter above sea level
Local time	14:17:48pm
Name province/region	Continente
Name Subregion	Faro
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Portimão
Name	Portimão

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Alto Pacheco	1 km	EastSouthEast
2 Aldeia das Sobreiras	1 km	North
3 Quatro Estradas	1.3 km	NorthNorthWest
4 São Sebastião	1.3 km	NorthEast
5 Três Castelos	1.3 km	SouthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Lisboa	Portugal	185 km	North
2 Gibraltar	Gibraltar	311 km	EastSouthEast
3 Madrid	Spain	555 km	EastNorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

Vale de França lies at the Atlantic Ocean (direction SouthSouthWest).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Algarve Basins. The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Albufeira da Bravura (3.6 km² at a height of around 83 meter above sea level) at a distance of 15 km in NorthWestern direction).

The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 101 km in Eastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 141 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 28%, low location: 72%, The hills are mainly southwestern orientated. The surroundings of the place is lightly urbanised. The most common land use in the area is agriculture.

Name area (subregions, nature area, hills, mountains, landscape)

Name
Algarve

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Faro Airport (at a distance of 55 km and direction EastSouthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Portimão Airport (at a distance of 3.3 km in NorthNorthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Nature

3.7 km2

7.3%

Wet nature

2.9 km2

5.7%

Agriculture

18.3 km2

35.6%

Urban area

14.2 km2

27.8%

Infrastructure

0.6 km2

1.1%

Rock-Sand

1.2 km2

2.4%

Water - Lakes

4.7 km2

9.2%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Vale de França in country Portugal

Vale de França at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Historic Centre of Évora	Portugal	168 km	NorthNorthEast
2 Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon	Portugal	184 km	North
3 Doñana National Park	Spain	198 km	EastSouthEast

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Costa Sudoeste	PT	0.9 km	SouthSouthWest

Social media - Maps

	Video's op youtube van Vale de França
	Video's op Vimeo
	TikTok
	Instagram
	Flickr
Filming Location	IMDB Vale de França
	TikTok
	Bings maps
	Mapquest
	Wikimapia
	OpenStreetMap

Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Amoreira

Type of weather in Amoreira	scattered clouds
Current temperature:	22 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	3.44 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 3)
Wind direction:	South West
Air pressure:	1018 mb
Humidity:	46 %
Daylength at 7 May 2024:	13 hour and 56 minutes
Sunrise :	07:32 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	21:28 Europe/Amsterdam