China summit
Mount Lu
You can see 249 km from here, looking south-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 south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,433 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 3 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 September 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.
- Jansouth-westsets on an open horizon32%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon28%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon27%
- Maywestsets on an open horizon26%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon20%
- Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon35%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon42%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon42%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon42%
- 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 Lu.
Mountain in central China
Mount Lu is a summit in China, 1,433 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking south-east.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Tianzhu (1,760 m), 62 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from September to December.
Get there and stay
- 庐山如琴湖饭店place to stay · 0.5 km · 27 within 10 km
- Shahejienearest town · 9.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ShahejieBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Nanchang Changbei International Airport (KHN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 79 km in a straight line
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
- 16other viewpoints within 5 km悬索桥, 庐山1314石, 月照松林 and 13 more
- 25named peaks within 5 km太乙峰, 九奇峰, 大月山 and 22 more
- 9cable car and funicular stations within 5 km三叠泉有轨缆车 and 8 more
- 9shelters and huts within 5 km望江亭 and 8 more
- 7car parks within 3 km
- 43restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 km
- 27places to stay within 10 km庐山如琴湖饭店, 牯岭大酒店, 九江希尔顿逸林酒店 and 24 more
- marked trails within 3 km
- 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 Lu, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees 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.
Mount Lu
China
- 70Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 1,433 mAltitude
Star of Nanchang
China · 102 km
- 67Viewyas Score
- 143 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 26 mAltitude
Mount Sanqing
China · 213 km
- 61Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 1,249 mAltitude
Changsha Ferris Wheel
China · 330 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 141 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 69 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q622616) · 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, Forestyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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