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Ismoil Somoni Peak

You can see 249 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 249 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.

76out 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).

  • 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 33Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 7,380 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 33 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.

Leipzig Peak5,725 m · 60 km · north-eastTsjurupy Peak5,849 m · 78 km · north-eastQullai Balandkiik5,874 m · 64 km · eastQullai Gach5,722 m · 120 km · eastPeak 61236,123 m · 128 km · south-eastPik Sovetskikh Ofitserov6,233 m · 126 km · south-eastQullai Sarez5,623 m · 135 km · south-eastKŭhi Gudara5,710 m · 86 km · south-eastParrota6,277 m · 50 km · south-eastPeak 58595,859 m · 96 km · south-eastIndependence Peak6,940 m · 56 km · south-eastPatkhor Peak6,083 m · 118 km · southPeak 5422.25,422 m · 142 km · southVudor Peak6,132 m · 81 km · southKŭhi Odud4,983 m · 108 km · southKuh-e Safed Khers5,326 m · 124 km · south-westArnavad Peak5,992 m · 60 km · south-westSafedkŭh3,839 m · 148 km · south-westQullai Hazrati Shoh3,265 m · 146 km · westPik Skalisty5,621 m · 135 km · north-westPeak Ozodi7,105 m · 12 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 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.

  1. Jansouth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  2. Febwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  3. Marwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  4. Aprwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  5. Maynorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  6. Junnorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  7. Julnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  8. Augwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  9. Sepwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  10. Octwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  11. Novwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  12. Decsouth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  • 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

Ismoil Somoni Peak.

Highest mountain of Akademiya Nauk Range, Pamir mountains, Tajikistan

Ismoil Somoni Peak is a summit in Tajikistan, 7,380 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking north.

33 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Independence Peak (6,940 m), 56 km away.

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

The skies are clearest from August to September.

Pik Kommunizma
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

  • поляна Москвинаplace to stay · 8.5 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Fergana International Airport (FEG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 159 km in a straight line

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.

Ismoil Somoni Peak 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

  • 12named peaks within 5 kmҚуллаи Исмоили Сомонӣ, пик Клары Цеткин, Куйбышева and 9 more
  • 5campsites within 10 km
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmполяна Москвина
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Ismoil Somoni Peak, and what is near.

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

Peakyas39 mountains within 25 km
Ismoil Somoni Peak · this placeIsmoil Somoni Peak7,495 m · this placePik Dushanbe6,950 m · 1.2 kmPik Khokhlova6,685 m · 2.4 kmPik Izvestiy6,841 m · 4.6 kmPik Russia6,875 m · 5.3 kmPeak Ozodi7,105 m · 13 kmPik Garmo6,595 m · 15 kmMoscow Peak6,785 m · 16 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.

Пик Исмаила Сомони. Памир
Amestramgram · CC BY-SA 3.0
Laviin MAL-Pamir 85 05
Jaan Künnap · CC BY-SA 4.0
Laviin MAL-Pamir 85 06
Jaan Künnap · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Ismoil Somoni Peak

Tajikistan

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 33Peaks in view
  • 7,380 mAltitude

Peak Ozodi

Tajikistan · 13 km

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 51Peaks in view
  • 7,110 mAltitude

See the guide

Pik Garmo

Tajikistan · 15 km

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 62Peaks in view
  • 6,539 mAltitude

See the guide

Lenin Peak

Kyrgyzstan · 87 km

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 40Peaks in view
  • 7,112 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q41413) · 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

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

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