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Kelut

You can see 233 km from here, looking west.

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 233 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.

86out 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).

  • 233 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
  • 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 40%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 8Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 1,659 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

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 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. Janwestsets on an open horizon10%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon12%
  3. Marwestsets on an open horizon16%
  4. Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  5. Maywestsets on an open horizon39%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon48%
  7. Julwestsets on an open horizon55%
  8. Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset61%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon60%
  10. Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  11. Novwestsets on an open horizon22%
  12. Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon9%
  • 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

Kelut.

Crater lake in Indonesia

Kelut is a volcano in Indonesia, 1,659 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 233 km away, looking west.

The sea fills 40% of the horizon.

8 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Lawu Mountain (3,265 m), 128 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to September.

Kawah Gunung Kelud Kediri
Ali Ibnu Nasheer · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

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.

Kelut 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

  • 1other viewpoints within 5 kmLembu Suro
  • 6named peaks within 5 kmGunung Kambang, Gunung Umbuk, Gunung Gupit and 3 more
  • 1shelters and huts within 5 kmPos 2
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmPos 3, Pos 2 Pondok klakah, Pos 1 and 3 more
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmSelorejo Hotel & Resort, Cottage Mawar
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails 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 Kelut, and what is near.

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

Peakyas77 mountains within 25 km
Kelut · this placeMount Butak2,868 m · volcano · 16 kmKawi-Butak2,868 m · volcano · 16 kmMount Kawi2,551 m · volcano · 16 kmGunung Srandil · 20 kmPanderman Mountain · 21 kmGunung Kurmo · 22 kmMountain Argowayang · 22 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Selorejo Dam2.8 km² · 9.1 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Grojogan Sewu waterfall · 15 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.

Trail Hiking Mt. Kelud Indonesia
irham firmansyah · Public domain
G kelud - panoramio
Ferry yulies anezy · CC BY 3.0
Ritual larung sesaji Gunung Kelud
[WCB]-Churin ainun nisva · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Kelut

Indonesia

  • 86Viewyas Score
  • 233 kmFarthest ridge
  • 8Peaks in view
  • 1,659 mAltitude

Mount Bromo

Indonesia · 71 km

  • 91Viewyas Score
  • 242 kmFarthest ridge
  • 13Peaks in view
  • 2,568 mAltitude

See the guide

Semeru

Indonesia · 70 km

  • 91Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 11Peaks in view
  • 3,657 mAltitude

See the guide

Ijen

Indonesia · 214 km

  • 92Viewyas Score
  • 245 kmFarthest ridge
  • 14Peaks in view
  • 2,766 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q513216) · 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Cascadyas

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

The family

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