Lesotho summit
Mont-Aux-Sources
You can see 203 km from here, looking north-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 203 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).
- 203 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 18Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 3,261 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 18 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 June 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon71%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset77%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Novwest10 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- 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-Aux-Sources.
Mountain in Lesotho and South Africa
Mont-Aux-Sources is a summit in Lesotho, 3,261 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 203 km away, looking north-east.
18 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Thabana Ntlenyana (3,482 m), 86 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to August.
Get there and stay
- Royal Natal Mahai Campingcampsite · 9.8 km · 3 within 10 km
- Tendele Hutted Campplace to stay · 7.3 km · 6 within 10 km
- Moshoeshoe I International Airport (MSU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 151 km in a straight lineCar hire at MSU airport (Maseru)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
- 7other viewpoints within 5 kmThukela Falls, Tunnel and 5 more
- 10named peaks within 5 kmSekhong, Sentinel, Devil's Tooth and 7 more
- 2marked trails within 3 kmMont-aux-Sources Challenge, Drakensberg Sentinel - Cathedral
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmRoyal Natal Mahai Camping
- 6places to stay within 10 kmTendele Hutted Camp, Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge, Witsies Mountain Lodge and 3 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- car parks within 3 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- 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 Mont-Aux-Sources, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas55 mountains within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Mont-Aux-Sources
Lesotho
- 83Viewyas Score
- 203 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 3,261 mAltitude
Amphitheatre
South Africa · 3 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 187 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 2,963 mAltitude
Njesuthi
Lesotho · 68 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 229 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 3,446 mAltitude
Thabana Ntlenyana
Lesotho · 87 km
- 82Viewyas Score
- 164 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 3,472 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q599532) · 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, Birdyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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