Italy scenic viewpoint
A2A Tower
You can see 180 km from here, looking south-west.
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 180 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).
- 180 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,226Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 116 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1,226 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- 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
A2A Tower.
Skyscraper in Milan
A2A Tower is a scenic viewpoint in Italy, 116 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 180 km away, looking south-west.
1,226 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Finsteraarhorn (4,274 m), 147 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Nuovorimessaggiocampsite · 4.9 km · 4 within 10 km
- Sina de la Villeplace to stay · 2.3 km · 668 within 10 km
- Milannearest town · 2.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MilanBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Milano Linate Airport (LIN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at LIN airport (Segrate)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
- 9other viewpoints within 5 kmHighline Galleria, Vista sul Parco Sempione, The Roof Milano Bar & Restaurant and 6 more
- 3marked trails within 3 kmCammino di Sant'Agostino - Foglia Orientale, MilanoInCima, Sentiero dei Celti e dei Liguri - tappa 1
- 130shelters and huts within 5 km
- 521car parks within 3 km
- 13visitor centres within 5 kmInformazione e Accoglienza Turistica Provincia di Milano, ATM Point, Assistenza alla clientela and 10 more
- 1,782restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmNuovorimessaggio, Podere Ronchetto Agriturismo, New Park Milano and 1 more
- 668places to stay within 10 kmSina de la Ville, NH Milano Touring, Principe di Savoia and 665 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations 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 A2A Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas6 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 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.
A2A Tower
Italy
- 78Viewyas Score
- 180 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,226Peaks in view
- 116 mAltitude
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- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 944Peaks in view
- 1,284 mAltitude
Passo di Valcava
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- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 688Peaks in view
- 1,353 mAltitude
Monte Resegone
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- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,140Peaks in view
- 1,842 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q107552561) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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