France cliff
Falaises Soubeyranes
You can see 72 km from here, looking south.
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 72 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).
- 72 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 33%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 28Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 351 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 28 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 horizon41%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon48%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset61%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon46%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- 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
Falaises Soubeyranes.
Cliff in France
Falaises Soubeyranes is a cliff in France, 351 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 72 km away, looking south.
The sea fills 33% of the horizon.
28 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Signal des Béguines (1,148 m), 26 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Le soleilcampsite · 3.3 km · 9 within 10 km
- La Rotondeplace to stay · 3.6 km · 40 within 10 km
- La Ciotatnearest town · 3.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in La CiotatBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Marseille Provence Airport (MRS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 40 km in a straight lineCar hire at MRS airport (Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône)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
- 38other viewpoints within 5 kmBelvédère des Calanques, Pont naturel de Terrevaine, Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Garde and 35 more
- 9named peaks within 5 kmSommet de la Gardiole, Le Capucin, Bec de l'aigle and 6 more
- 3marked trails within 3 kmSentier du Cap Canaille, Sentier de Grande Randonnée 98
- 47shelters and huts within 5 kmRefuge du Piolet, Kennedy, La Treille and 44 more
- 210car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmOffice municipal de tourisme, Maison forestière de la Gardiole, Office de Tourisme et des Congrès Cassis
- 7restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmLe soleil, La Sauge, Les Cigales and 6 more
- 40places to stay within 10 kmLa Rotonde, Les Lavandes, Hôtel Cassitel and 37 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 Falaises Soubeyranes, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas30 mountains within 25 km
Coastya17 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas2 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.
Falaises Soubeyranes
France
- 76Viewyas Score
- 72 kmFarthest ridge
- 28Peaks in view
- 351 mAltitude
Grande Roue de Marseille
France · 20 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 41 kmFarthest ridge
- 19Peaks in view
- 0 mAltitude
Mont Ventoux
France · 112 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 239 kmFarthest ridge
- 525Peaks in view
- 1,893 mAltitude
Phare de la méditerranée
France · 137 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 121Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3064717) · 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, Coastya, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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