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Tanzania Tanzania summit

Mount Meru

You can see 249 km from here, looking south.

81Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°Long viewMany peaks

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.

81out 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
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 14Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 4,523 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 14 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.

Ol Doinyo Orok2,548 m · 83 km · northShira3,962 m · 56 km · north-eastMount Kilimanjaro5,895 m · 70 km · eastMawenzi5,148 m · 80 km · eastMount Meru4,562 m · 1.0 km · south-eastSadiman volcano2,870 m · 149 km · westCrater Highlands3,682 m · 120 km · westMount Loolmalasin3,682 m · 105 km · westJaeger Summit3,042 m · 115 km · westOl Doinyo Lengai2,960 m · 107 km · north-westKitumbeine Volcano2,865 m · 72 km · north-westGelai Volcano2,942 m · 100 km · north-west

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 January to February, in July and in September.

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. Janwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  2. Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset57%
  3. Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  4. Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  5. Maywest-2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
  6. Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  7. Julwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  8. Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  9. Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  10. Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset49%
  11. Novwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  12. Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  • 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 Meru.

Mountain

Mount Meru is a summit in Tanzania, 4,523 m above the sea.

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

14 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m), 70 km away.

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

The skies are clearest from January to February, in July and in September.

Mount meru with snow, Arusha Region, Tanzania
Khalidsalewa · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Mount MeruGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mount MeruBooking.comSee prices Car hire at JRO airport (Arusha)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Mount Meru 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

  • 2named peaks within 5 kmRhino Point, Little Meru
  • 1shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmPublic Campsite 2, Public Campsite 1, Public Campsite 3
  • 14places to stay within 10 kmSaddle Hut, Miriakamba Hut and 12 more
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 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 Mount Meru, and what is near.

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

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Mount Meru · this placeMount Meru4,562 m · 0.3 kmLoldoroto2,013 m · 10 kmKibwezi1,651 m · 11 kmLoilenok Hills · 22 kmGreat Domberg1,328 m · 23 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Tululusia waterfalls28 m · 9.2 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.

Hikers on Mount Meru Tanzania
AmyAbroad · CC BY-SA 4.0
Meru., Kilimanjaro
Woodlouse · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mont Méru vue sur Ash Cone
The original uploader was Galano at French Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Meru

Tanzania

  • 81Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 14Peaks in view
  • 4,523 mAltitude

Mount Kilimanjaro

Tanzania · 69 km

  • 69Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 5,819 mAltitude

See the guide

Ol Doinyo Lengai

Tanzania · 108 km

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 11Peaks in view
  • 2,923 mAltitude

See the guide

Olduvai Gorge

Tanzania · 159 km

  • 53Viewyas Score
  • 50 kmFarthest ridge
  • 3Peaks in view
  • 1,451 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q309098) · 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.

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