Monaco / France summit
Mont Agel
You can see 246 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 246 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).
- 246 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 22%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 135Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,128 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 135 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 August.
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-westsets on an open horizon37%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon36%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon39%
- 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
Mont Agel.
Mountain
Mont Agel is a summit in Monaco, 1,128 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 246 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 22% of the horizon.
135 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Monte Argentera (3,297 m), 46 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- La Giandolacampsite · 1.9 km · 9 within 10 km
- Les Deux Frèresplace to stay · 2.8 km · 117 within 10 km
- Gorbionearest town · 1.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in GorbioBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 21 km in a straight lineCar hire at NCE airport (Nice, Alpes-Maritimes)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
- 71other viewpoints within 5 kmweb-cam, Col de Verroux, Pointe Siricocca and 68 more
- 24named peaks within 5 kmLa Coupière, La Tête de Chien, Cime de Baudon and 21 more
- 15marked trails within 3 kmVia Alpina Red R161, Via Aurelia, Roquebrune - Mandelieu, Via Alpina Red R160 and 12 more
- 19shelters and huts within 5 km
- 58car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Office, Cap Moderne, Office du Tourisme de Monaco and 2 more
- 20restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmLa Giandola, Camping de la Laune, Centre EEDF Les Restanques and 6 more
- 117places to stay within 10 kmLes Deux Frères, Monte Carlo Beach Hotel, Villa Boeri and 114 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Mont Agel, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas67 mountains within 25 km
Coastya7 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 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.
Mont Agel
Monaco
- 86Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 135Peaks in view
- 1,128 mAltitude
Crête de Géruen
France · 112 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 231Peaks in view
- 1,856 mAltitude
Col d'Illoire
France · 94 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 128 kmFarthest ridge
- 70Peaks in view
- 1,016 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1517182) · 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, Coastya, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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