France cliff
Crête de Géruen
You can see 183 km from here, looking 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 183 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).
- 183 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 0%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 231Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,856 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 231 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-westsets on an open horizon33%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon34%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon31%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon32%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon42%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon52%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon48%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon42%
- Novsouth-westsets on an open horizon36%
- Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- 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
Crête de Géruen.
Ridge in France
Crête de Géruen is a cliff in France, 1,856 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 183 km away, looking west.
231 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Viso (3,841 m), 88 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
- Le Moulin de Thoardcampsite · 7.2 km · 1 within 10 km
- Gîte des Mongesplace to stay · 4.3 km · 7 within 10 km
- Le Brusquetnearest town · 12 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Le BrusquetBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 104 km in a straight lineCar hire at NCE airport (Nice, Alpes-Maritimes)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
- 5other viewpoints within 5 km
- 13named peaks within 5 kmSommet de Chine, Sommet des Monges, Cluchette and 10 more
- 9marked trails within 3 kmCircuit des Cols, Crête de Pierre-Mont, Tour de la Roche des Brigands and 6 more
- 5shelters and huts within 5 kmCabane des Prés, Cabane des Monges, Cabane pastorale du Vanson and 2 more
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmLe Moulin de Thoard
- 7places to stay within 10 kmGîte des Monges, Chambre d'hôtes des lauzes du villard, Gite du Château and 4 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Crête de Géruen, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas62 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas3 caves within 20 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.
Crête de Géruen
France
- 79Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 231Peaks in view
- 1,856 mAltitude
Mont Ventoux
France · 71 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 239 kmFarthest ridge
- 525Peaks in view
- 1,893 mAltitude
Col d'Illoire
France · 50 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 128 kmFarthest ridge
- 70Peaks in view
- 1,016 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3006362) · 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, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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