Italy summit
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.
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.
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 sunset35%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset74%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- 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.

Get there and stay
- Area sosta camper Park Colombocampsite · 2.3 km · 8 within 10 km
- Hotel Veronaplace to stay · 1.5 km · 1,208 within 10 km
- Celionearest town · 0.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in CelioBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport (CIA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 km in a straight lineCar hire at CIA airport (Rome)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
- 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.
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.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q216104) · 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, 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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