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Caelian Hill

You can see 84 km from here, looking 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 84 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.

70out of 100

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).

  • 84 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
  • 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 65Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 52 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 65 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.

Monte Soratte691 m · 40 km · northMonte Torricella1,054 m · 82 km · northMonte Fionchi1,337 m · 90 km · northMonte Macchia Gelata1,258 m · 55 km · northMonte Terminillo2,217 m · 78 km · north-eastPizzo di Sevo2,419 m · 112 km · north-eastMonte Gennaro1,271 m · 32 km · north-eastMonte Morra1,036 m · 33 km · north-eastMurolungo2,184 m · 77 km · north-eastMonte Velino2,487 m · 78 km · north-eastMonte Guadagnolo1,218 m · 36 km · eastMonte Viglio2,156 m · 73 km · eastMonte del Passeggio2,064 m · 82 km · eastMonti della Meta2,249 m · 120 km · eastMonte Scalambra1,420 m · 80 km · eastMonte Tuscolo670 m · 20 km · south-eastMount Algidus950 m · 29 km · south-eastMonte Cavo950 m · 23 km · south-eastJaniculum82 m · 2.9 km · westVatican Hill75 m · 4.4 km · north-westMonte Mario139 m · 5.8 km · north-westMonte Rocca Romana609 m · 39 km · north-westMonte Venere835 m · 57 km · north-westMonte Cimino1,053 m · 63 km · north

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.

  1. Jansouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  2. Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  3. Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  4. Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  5. Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  6. Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  7. Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset74%
  8. Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset72%
  9. Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset55%
  10. Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset48%
  11. Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  12. 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

Caelian Hill.

One of the seven hills of Rome, Italy

Caelian Hill is a summit in Italy, 52 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 84 km away, looking east.

65 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Monte Viglio (2,156 m), 73 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Caelian Hill
Roundtheworld · CC BY 3.0

Get there and stay

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.

Caelian Hill seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 77other viewpoints within 5 kmForum Romanum view, Belvedere Romolo E Remo, Balconata del Pincio and 74 more
  • 5named peaks within 5 kmMonte Mario, Monte Ciocci, Colle Vaticano and 2 more
  • 9marked trails within 3 kmVia Francigena - 07 Lazio, Via di Francesco/Via del SUD - Tappa 1, Via di Francesco - Tappa 22 and 6 more
  • 64shelters and huts within 5 kmP.zza Cardinali and 63 more
  • 1,039car parks within 3 km
  • 30visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Information Point "Minghetti", Visitor Center Fori Imperiali, Punto Informativo Parco Appia Antica and 27 more
  • 2,517restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmArea sosta camper Park Colombo, Area Sosta Camper Romae, LGP and 5 more
  • 1,208places to stay within 10 kmHotel Verona, Hotel Majestic, Hotel Westin Excelsior and 1,205 more
  • 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 Caelian Hill, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas29 mountains within 25 km
Caelian Hill · this placeCaelian Hill50 m · this placePalatine Hill51 m · 0.8 kmAventine Hill47 m · 1.0 kmEsquiline Hill58 m · 1.3 kmCapitoline Hill45 m · 1.5 kmViminal Hill57 m · 1.7 kmQuirinal Hill50 m · 2.0 kmMonte Cavo950 m · 23 km
Forestyas6 forests and trees within 15 km
Farnese Gardens · 1.0 kmRome Rose Garden · 1.0 kmOrto Botanico dell'Università di Roma "La Sapienza" · 2.6 kmQuercia del Tasso · 3.1 kmVilla Borghese gardens · 3.4 kmOrto Botanico dell'Università di Tor Vergata · 9.6 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
Observatory of the Collegio RomanoBortle 9 · 2.0 kmRome ObservatoryBortle 9 · 5.6 kmAstronomical Museum with PlanetariumBortle 9 · 6.0 kmKolleverde di Gvidoniya observatoryBortle 8 · 15 kmVatican ObservatoryBortle 8 · 20 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Caelian Hill from Aventine Hill
Jensens · Public domain
0 Cælius et rione XIX Celio à Rome
Jean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 4.0
Zentralbibliothek Zürich - Aussenansicht der Basilika Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio und den dazugehörenden Oratorien in Rom - 991091149079705501
Johann Rudolf Rahn · Public domain

Other viewpoints nearby.

Caelian Hill

Italy

  • 70Viewyas Score
  • 84 kmFarthest ridge
  • 65Peaks in view
  • 52 mAltitude

Viminal Hill

Italy · 2 km

  • 75Viewyas Score
  • 112 kmFarthest ridge
  • 60Peaks in view
  • 71 mAltitude

See the guide

Capitoline Hill

Italy · 1 km

  • 70Viewyas Score
  • 85 kmFarthest ridge
  • 59Peaks in view
  • 48 mAltitude

See the guide

Aventine Hill

Italy · 1 km

  • 70Viewyas Score
  • 85 kmFarthest ridge
  • 67Peaks in view
  • 50 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q216104) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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