France observation tower
Eiffel Tower
You can see 39 km from here, looking north-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 39 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).
- 39 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 36 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 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 in April and from August 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- 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
Eiffel Tower.
Tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France
Eiffel Tower is an observation tower in France, 36 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 39 km away, looking north-east.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Montmartre (130 m), 5 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: 09:30-23:45; Jun 21-Sep 02: 09:00-00:45; Jul 14,Jul 15 offOfficial site↗
- Camping de Pariscampsite · 4.4 km · 1 within 10 km
- Hôtel du Champ de Marsplace to stay · 0.9 km · 2,339 within 10 km
- Paris 16 Passynearest town · 1.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Paris 16 PassyBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 km in a straight lineCar hire at ORY airport (Paris)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
- 42other viewpoints within 5 kmGrande Arche, Butte de Coupeaux, Montmartre and 39 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmMontagne Sainte-Geneviève, Butte Montmartre
- 4cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmFuniculaire de Montmartre and 3 more
- 16marked trails within 3 kmTraversée de Paris n°3, Bois de Boulogne, Sentier des îles and 13 more
- 230shelters and huts within 5 kmSèvres–Lecourbe and 229 more
- 300car parks within 3 km
- 37visitor centres within 5 kmEPAD Info, Office du Tourisme, Association Paris Historique and 34 more
- 3,844restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmCamping de Paris
- 2,339places to stay within 10 kmHôtel du Champ de Mars, Le Petit Chomel, Signature and 2,336 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 Eiffel Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Eiffel Tower
France
- 50Viewyas Score
- 39 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 36 mAltitude
Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile
France · 3 km
- 49Viewyas Score
- 37 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 45 mAltitude
Tour du Millénaire
Belgium · 221 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 30Peaks in view
- 503 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q243) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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