Peru 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 50 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).
- 50 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 90%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 7Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,991 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 7 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 June 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.
- Janwest26 min before the sea-level sunset9%
- Febwest22 min before the sea-level sunset8%
- Marwest22 min before the sea-level sunset11%
- Aprwest20 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Maywest20 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest20 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Octwest18 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Novwest24 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- Decsouth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset9%
- 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
Huayna Picchu.
Mountain in Peru
Huayna Picchu is a summit in Peru, 2,991 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 50 km away, looking north-west.
7 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Salcantay (6,271 m), 18 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 90% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to August.
Get there and stay
- Cabaña de Gabrielcampsite · 1.2 km · 40 within 10 km
- Hostal Miskipacha Machupicchuplace to stay · 2.2 km · 143 within 10 km
- Machupicchunearest town · 2.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MachupicchuBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 78 km in a straight lineCar hire at LIM airport (Lima)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
- 23other viewpoints within 5 kmIntipunku (Puerta del Sol), Intipata and 21 more
- 6named peaks within 5 kmCerro Putukusi, Cerro Paraguyachayoc, Cerro San Miguel and 3 more
- 3marked trails within 3 kmCamino del Inca Salkantay, Camino Inca a Machu Picchu, Choquequirao To Machu Picchu
- 7shelters and huts within 5 km
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmMachu Picchu Control, Tourist Info
- 110restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 40campsites within 10 kmCabaña de Gabriel, Wiñay Wayna, Llactapata Camping and 37 more
- 143places to stay within 10 kmHostal Miskipacha Machupicchu, Killa Chaska, Presidente and 140 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 Huayna Picchu, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas61 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.
Huayna Picchu
Peru
- 48Viewyas Score
- 50 kmFarthest ridge
- 7Peaks in view
- 2,991 mAltitude
Cotuahusi canion
Peru · 241 km
- 36Viewyas Score
- 39 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 2,045 mAltitude
Torre Torre
Peru · 311 km
- 58Viewyas Score
- 96 kmFarthest ridge
- 12Peaks in view
- 3,487 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q845427) · 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, Darkskyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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