France cliff
Croix des Têtes
You can see 102 km from here, looking north-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 102 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).
- 102 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 202Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,415 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 202 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 September.
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-west16 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Decsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
Croix des Têtes.
Mountain in France
Croix des Têtes is a cliff in France, 2,415 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 102 km away, looking north-west.
202 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mont Blanc (4,806 m), 71 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Le Marintancampsite · 6.6 km · 9 within 10 km
- Baraque de Bonnantplace to stay · 0.7 km · 109 within 10 km
- Villargondrannearest town · 5.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in VillargondranBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Chambéry Aix les Bains airport (CMF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 60 km in a straight lineCar hire at GNB airport (Grenoble)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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmCrêt des Faînes and 9 more
- 16named peaks within 5 kmCime de Lancheton, Bec de l'Aigle, Pic du Génie and 13 more
- 12cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmPlan du Four, Granges, Vinouve and 9 more
- 120marked trails within 3 kmChemin d'Assise, Cluny - Montcenis, B11 - Les Hauts de Tourmentier, B09 - Le tour de Montdenis and 117 more
- 12shelters and huts within 5 kmCabane de Féminieu and 11 more
- 54car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmOffice du tourisme Les Karellis
- 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmLe Marintan, Aire du Col du Télégraphe, Camping des Grands Cols and 6 more
- 109places to stay within 10 kmBaraque de Bonnant, Hôtel de Lancheton, Le Savoy and 106 more
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 Croix des Têtes, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas177 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 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.
Croix des Têtes
France
- 68Viewyas Score
- 102 kmFarthest ridge
- 202Peaks in view
- 2,415 mAltitude
Lances de Malissard
France · 45 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 209 kmFarthest ridge
- 549Peaks in view
- 1,978 mAltitude
Gran Paradiso
Italy · 71 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,056Peaks in view
- 3,995 mAltitude
Mont Blanc
France · 71 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,263Peaks in view
- 4,791 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3003594) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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