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Mount Amiata

You can see 249 km from here, looking south-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 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.

89out of 100

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 south-west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 21%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 231Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 1,725 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

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.

  1. Jansouth-westsets on an open horizon30%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon33%
  3. Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  4. Aprwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  5. Maynorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon54%
  7. Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon69%
  8. Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset66%
  9. Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  10. Octwestsets on an open horizon40%
  11. Novsouth-westsets on an open horizon30%
  12. Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon34%
  • 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

Mount Amiata.

Lava dome in Tuscany, Italy

Mount Amiata is a summit in Italy, 1,725 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking south-west.

The sea fills 21% of the horizon.

231 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Monte Vettore (2,476 m), 134 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Amiata z01
Zyance · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

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.

Mount Amiata seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 7other viewpoints within 5 kmveduta Mura del Terraio, Punto Panoramico Valle d'Inferno, Punto Panoramico Rigale and 4 more
  • 18named peaks within 5 kmCorno di Bellaria, La Montagnola, Poggio Biello and 15 more
  • 5cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmCantore, Vetta, Prato delle Macinaie and 2 more
  • 32marked trails within 3 kmAnello grande dell'Amiata, Sentiero di Rigale, Sentiero del Capomacchia and 29 more
  • 1shelters and huts within 5 kmCapanno del Capomacchia
  • 15car parks within 3 km
  • 10restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmAgri Camper Trefossata, Agrisosta Fabbrini, Area sosta Camper Santa Fiora and 1 more
  • 62places to stay within 10 kmAlbergo Ristorante Cesaretti, La Bocca Di Bacco, Gatto d'Oro and 59 more
  • visitor centres 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 Mount Amiata, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas21 mountains within 25 km
Mount Amiata · this placeMount Amiata1,738 m · this placeMonte Calvo931 m · 10 kmMonte Labbro1,192 m · 11 kmMonte Buceto1,152 m · 12 kmMonte Aquilaia1,104 m · 13 kmMonte Civitella1,107 m · 14 kmMonte Elmo829 m · 20 kmMonte Cetona1,148 m · 21 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
cascata dell'ex Ferriera · 7.2 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

UmbMonteAmiata
Ziegler175 · CC BY-SA 3.0
In the spacious valley below Monte Amiata
Albarubescens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Amiata - panoramio
Oleg Krivolapov · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Amiata

Italy

  • 89Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 231Peaks in view
  • 1,725 mAltitude

Guaita

San Marino · 134 km

  • 91Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 68Peaks in view
  • 692 mAltitude

See the guide

Monte Titano

San Marino · 134 km

  • 90Viewyas Score
  • 245 kmFarthest ridge
  • 109Peaks in view
  • 695 mAltitude

See the guide

Eurowheel

Italy · 169 km

  • 92Viewyas Score
  • 238 kmFarthest ridge
  • 118Peaks in view
  • 0 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q470777) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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