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Doi Inthanon

You can see 225 km from here, looking north-east.

83Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°Long viewMany peaks

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 225 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.

83out 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).

  • 225 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 16Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 2,566 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 16 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.

Tanen Taunggyi1,475 m · 126 km · northLoi Pukkala1,821 m · 124 km · northLoi Htwe1,825 m · 141 km · northDoi Chiang Dao2,175 m · 98 km · north-eastDoi Suthep1,676 m · 50 km · north-eastDoi Mae Tho2,031 m · 107 km · north-eastLerkwardi Kerser586 m · 137 km · south-westTakolaw Kyo1,472 m · 124 km · south-westLepekho Taung1,163 m · 148 km · westSocho Kho1,014 m · 120 km · westLawso Moso1,296 m · 145 km · westLoi Mokbanse1,334 m · 123 km · westTa-lè-hso-tu1,010 m · 104 km · north-westLoi Lan2,129 m · 133 km · north-westLoi Hpa-wūt1,470 m · 127 km · north-westLoi Mawng1,098 m · 127 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 January to February.

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. Janwestsets on an open horizon72%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon79%
  3. Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset68%
  4. Aprwestsets on an open horizon53%
  5. Maywestsets on an open horizon20%
  6. Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset6%
  7. Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon5%
  8. Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset5%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon11%
  10. Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  11. Novwestsets on an open horizon59%
  12. Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset66%
  • 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

Doi Inthanon.

Highest mountain of Thailand

Doi Inthanon is a summit in Thailand, 2,566 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 225 km away, looking north-east.

16 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Doi Suthep (1,676 m), 50 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from January to February.

Doi Inthanon, Royal Stupa 2, Thailand
Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Doi InthanonGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Doi InthanonBooking.comSee prices Car hire at CNX airport (Chiang Mai)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Doi Inthanon 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

  • 11other viewpoints within 5 kmLarn Sadat Waterfall viewpoint and 10 more
  • 1named peaks within 5 kmดอยอินทนนท์, Doi Inthanon
  • 2marked trails within 3 kmAngkha Nature Trail
  • 2shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 10car parks within 3 km
  • 2visitor centres within 5 kmKew Mae Pan Nature Trail
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 19campsites within 10 kmแคมป์อินทนนท์, Camp Inthanon, สวนลูกพล้บ and 16 more
  • 18places to stay within 10 kmDoi Inthanon Tea Farmstay, บ้านพักโปโป&ปิงปิง โฮมสเตย์ ขุนวาง, บ้าน ยี ลี อินทนนท์ and 15 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 Doi Inthanon, and what is near.

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

Peakyas102 mountains within 25 km
Doi Inthanon · this placeDoi Inthanon2,565 m · 0.2 kmKio Mae Pan · 3.6 kmDoi San Tham · 10 kmDoi Pha Ngaem · 11 kmDoi Yao · 16 kmDoi Ram · 18 kmDoi Huai Tat · 23 kmDoi Tham · 24 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Thai National ObservatoryBortle 3 · 0.2 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 km
Nam Tok Si Ri Phum · 5.6 kmNam Tok Mae Pan · 8.2 kmNam Tok Huai Sai Lueang · 8.3 kmNam Tok Huai Nam Dang · 9.5 kmWachirathan Falls · 13 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.

Doi Inthanon, Royal Chedi, Thailand
Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0
Doi inthanon control and reporting center
Takeaway · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kew Mae Pan Nature Trail Head
Douglas Perkins · CC BY 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1140075) · 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, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
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