Saudi Arabia summit
Mount Arafat
You can see 127 km from here, looking north.
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 127 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).
- 127 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 11%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 807 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 February 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.
- Janwestsets on an open horizon72%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon74%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon73%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon68%
- Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset68%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon62%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon60%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon58%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon75%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon76%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon76%
- 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 Arafat.
Mountain in Saudi Arabia
Mount Arafat is a summit in Saudi Arabia, 807 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 127 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 11% of the horizon.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Jabal Thawr (750 m), 16 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in February and from October to December.
Get there and stay
- مخيم ليبيا بعرفهcampsite · 0.4 km · 460 within 10 km
- ابراج فجر الايمانplace to stay · 10 km · 1 within 10 km
- Makkahnearest town · 18 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MakkahBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Taif International Airport (TIF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 60 km in a straight lineCar hire in JeddahDiscover 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
- 3named peaks within 5 kmجبل الرحمة, جبل سعد, جبل نمرة
- 37car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmArafat 4 Pilgrim Guidance Centre, Missing Pilgrims Guidance Center 6, Service Center and Guidance - 2
- 460campsites within 10 kmمخيم ليبيا بعرفه, قطاع إيران, قطاع أوروبا and 457 more
- 1places to stay within 10 kmابراج فجر الايمان
- other viewpoints within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- shelters and huts 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 Mount Arafat, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas6 mountains within 25 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.
Mount Arafat
Saudi Arabia
- 75Viewyas Score
- 127 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 807 mAltitude
Jabal al-Nour
Saudi Arabia · 17 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 125 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 725 mAltitude
Mount Uhud
Saudi Arabia · 353 km
- 67Viewyas Score
- 105 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 1,038 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q216894) · 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, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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