Malaysia summit
Genting Highlands
You can see 217 km from here, looking north.
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 217 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).
- 217 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 27%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 78Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,748 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 78 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 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.
- Janwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Maywest-2 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon18%
- Julwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset9%
- Novwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset8%
- Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset10%
- 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
Genting Highlands.
Highland in Pahang and Selangor, Malaysia
Genting Highlands is a summit in Malaysia, 1,748 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 217 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 27% of the horizon.
78 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Yong Belar (2,180 m), 145 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in February.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Peacehavencampsite · 1.1 km · 9 within 10 km
- Genting Grandplace to stay · 0.1 km · 26 within 10 km
- Kampung Bukit Tinggi, Bentongnearest town · 9.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Kampung Bukit Tinggi, BentongBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah International Airport (SZB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 42 km in a straight lineCar hire at KUL airport (Sepang)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
- 3other viewpoints within 5 kmLookout Point
- 11named peaks within 5 kmGenting Highlands, Bukit Tunggul, Gunung Hulu Kali and 8 more
- 5cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmChin Swee Station, Gohtong Jaya, Resorts World Station and 2 more
- 8shelters and huts within 5 km
- 19car parks within 3 km
- 38restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmPeacehaven, Father's Organic Farm, Lu Ying Retreats and 6 more
- 26places to stay within 10 kmGenting Grand, Highlands Hotel, First World Hotel and 23 more
- marked trails within 3 km
- visitor centres 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 Genting Highlands, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas73 mountains within 25 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.
Genting Highlands
Malaysia
- 84Viewyas Score
- 217 kmFarthest ridge
- 78Peaks in view
- 1,748 mAltitude
Mount Tahan
Malaysia · 143 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 69Peaks in view
- 2,174 mAltitude
Komtar Skywalk
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- 74Viewyas Score
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- 27Peaks in view
- 29 mAltitude
Bukit Timah
Singapore · 319 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 137 kmFarthest ridge
- 33Peaks in view
- 180 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1144734) · 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, Islandyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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