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Kodanad View Point

You can see 202 km from here, looking south-east.

69Viewyas Score

Viewpoint360°Long view

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 202 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.

69out 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).

  • 202 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
  • 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 1,877 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 1 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.

Alavaimalai900 m · 131 km · east

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 January to March.

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. Janwest22 min before the sea-level sunset58%
  2. Febwest18 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  3. Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  4. Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  5. Maywestsets on an open horizon24%
  6. Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset11%
  7. Julwest2 min before the sea-level sunset7%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset9%
  9. Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  10. Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  11. Novwest24 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  12. Decsouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  • 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

Kodanad View Point.

Scenic viewpoint in Tamil Nadu, India

Kodanad View Point is a scenic viewpoint in India, 1,877 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 202 km away, looking south-east.

1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Alavaimalai (900 m), 131 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from January to March.

As viewed from Kodannad, Nilgiris
Hari Prasad Sridhar · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Kodanad View PointGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Kodanad View PointBooking.comSee prices Car hire at COK airport (Kochi)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Kodanad View Point 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

  • 3other viewpoints within 5 kmKodanadu View Point
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 1places to stay within 10 km
  • named peaks 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
  • campsites within 10 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 Kodanad View Point, and what is near.

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

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Doddabetta2,637 m · 24 kmSnowdon Peak, Nilgiris2,530 m · 24 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.

Kodanadu View Point
Thomasktg · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blue skies kodanad tamilnadu - panoramio
rajaraman sundaram · CC BY 3.0
Far pavilions,Kodanad,tamilnadu - panoramio
rajaraman sundaram · CC BY 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Kodanad View Point

India

  • 69Viewyas Score
  • 202 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 1,877 mAltitude

Frog Hill View Point

India · 43 km

  • 68Viewyas Score
  • 143 kmFarthest ridge
  • 5Peaks in view
  • 1,384 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6425205) · 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

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

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