Malaysia scenic viewpoint
Komtar Skywalk
You can see 121 km from here, looking north-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 121 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).
- 121 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 12%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 27Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 29 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 27 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.
- Janwest18 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Febwest18 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Marwest22 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest26 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Maywest24 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- Junnorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Julwest24 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Augwest24 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- Sepwest24 min before the sea-level sunset10%
- Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset10%
- Novwest18 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- Decsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- 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
Komtar Skywalk.
Glass footbridge in George Town, Penang
Komtar Skywalk is a scenic viewpoint in Malaysia, 29 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 121 km away, looking north-west.
The sea fills 12% of the horizon.
27 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Yong Belar (2,180 m), 142 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in February.
Get there and stay
- 100 Cintra Stplace to stay · 0.5 km · 329 within 10 km
- George Townnearest town · 0.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in George TownBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Penang International Airport (PEN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 14 km in a straight lineCar hire at PEN airport (Penang)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
- 17other viewpoints within 5 kmStreet Art - Kungfu Girl, Mini Astro Rock ViewPoint, Astro Rock View Point and 14 more
- 8named peaks within 5 kmBukit Olivia, Bukit Delima, Bukit Batu Lanchang and 5 more
- 59shelters and huts within 5 kmRest Stop 3, TNB, Vera Kitchen and 56 more
- 295car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmPusat Penerangan Pelancongan, Rapid Penang kiosk, Tourist Information Centre and 2 more
- 847restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km
- 329places to stay within 10 km100 Cintra St, The Small Inn, Page 63 Hostel and 326 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails 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 Komtar Skywalk, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas46 mountains within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Komtar Skywalk
Malaysia
- 74Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 27Peaks in view
- 29 mAltitude
Mount Tahan
Malaysia · 228 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 69Peaks in view
- 2,174 mAltitude
Genting Highlands
Malaysia · 274 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 217 kmFarthest ridge
- 78Peaks in view
- 1,748 mAltitude
Mount Sinabung
Indonesia · 329 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 245 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 2,419 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q29341922) · 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, Forestyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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