Switzerland / Italy summit
Matterhorn
You can see 249 km from here, looking east.
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.
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 east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,282Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 4,317 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1,282 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 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.
- Jansouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon26%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Aprwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Maynorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Junnorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julnorth-west-8 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Augwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon32%
- Novsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- 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
Matterhorn.
Mountain in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy
Matterhorn is a summit in Switzerland, 4,317 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking east.
1,282 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mont Blanc (4,806 m), 63 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Camping Zermattcampsite · 9.0 km · 2 within 10 km
- Rifugio Aostaplace to stay · 7.5 km · 365 within 10 km
- Zermattnearest town · 8.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ZermattBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Turin Airport (TRN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 86 km in a straight lineCar hire at TRN airport (Caselle Torinese)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
- 8other viewpoints within 5 km
- 24named peaks within 5 kmDent d'Hérens, Matterhorn, Stockje and 21 more
- 50cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmTrockener Steg, Furgg, Plan Maison and 47 more
- 14marked trails within 3 kmMatterhorn glacier trail, Sentier Jean Antoine Carrel, Hörnliweg and 11 more
- 10shelters and huts within 5 kmBivacco Umberto Balestreri, Bivacco Enzo e Nino Benedetti, Bivacco Oreste Bossi and 7 more
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmCasa delle Guide - Ufficio informazioni
- 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Zermatt, Alphubel
- 365places to stay within 10 kmRifugio Aosta, Berggasthaus Trift, Alpenrose and 362 more
- 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 Matterhorn, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas402 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas11 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Matterhorn
Switzerland
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,282Peaks in view
- 4,317 mAltitude
Breithorn
Italy · 8 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,103Peaks in view
- 4,133 mAltitude
Weisshorn
Switzerland · 15 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,474Peaks in view
- 4,418 mAltitude
Lyskamm
Switzerland · 15 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,394Peaks in view
- 4,451 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1374) · 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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