Mauritius scenic viewpoint
Maconde Viewpoint
You can see 209 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 209 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).
- 209 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 94%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 43%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 8 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.
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 May and from October to December.
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.
- Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Maywest6 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- 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
Maconde Viewpoint.
Scenic viewpoint in Mauritius
Maconde Viewpoint is a scenic viewpoint in Mauritius.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 209 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 43% of the horizon.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Le Morne Brabant (556 m), 7 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 94% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in May and from October to December.
Get there and stay
- Chez Allanplace to stay · 1.4 km · 75 within 10 km
- Bel Ombrenearest town · 3.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Bel OmbreBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport (MRU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 33 km in a straight lineCar hire at MRU airport (Plaine Magnien)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
- 6other viewpoints within 5 kmMaconde, North Viewpoint, Le bout du monde and 3 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmLa Porte Mountain, Piton du Fouge
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 2car parks within 3 km
- 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 75places to stay within 10 kmChez Allan, La Cocoteraie, Residence Brabant and 72 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails 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 Maconde Viewpoint, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas26 mountains within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Maconde Viewpoint
Mauritius
- 77Viewyas Score
- 209 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 8 mAltitude
Le Morne Brabant
Mauritius · 7 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 215 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 513 mAltitude
Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire
Mauritius · 10 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 225 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 785 mAltitude
Rempart de Bellecombe
France · 194 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 229 kmFarthest ridge
- 19Peaks in view
- 2,386 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q124459057) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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