Via Algarviana - Ligação 4: Lagos-Bensafrim
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
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- F15°10°86
- M17°12°61
- A18°13°67
- M20°14°34
- J23°17°11
- J25°18°2
- A26°19°4
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- O21°16°79
- N18°13°122
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Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
About this trail
This regional hiking route in Faro, Portugal, is about 10 km (6 mi) long. It is at Bensafrim. By long-term climate averages it can be hiked year-round.
Short summary written from the trail facts on this page.
Trail facts
- Length (signed)
- 10 km · 6 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 10 km · 6 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- At Bensafrim (Lagos, Faro) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Faro
- Continent
- Europe
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- GR13.4
- Operator (OSM)
- Associação Almargem
- Route centre
- 37.1302, -8.7028
- Route start
- 37.1528, -8.7338
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 4741048
- Official info
- viaalgarviana.org/index.php/ligacoes-a-via-algar
How it’s scored
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
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