France volcano
Mount Pelée
You can see 170 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 170 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).
- 170 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 57%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 14Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,352 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.
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 December to March.
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.
- Janwest4 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon61%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon56%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon47%
- Maywest-2 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon38%
- Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- 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 Pelée.
Active stratovolcano
Mount Pelée is a volcano in France, 1,352 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 170 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 57% of the horizon.
14 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Soufrière (1,467 m), 147 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from December to March.
Get there and stay
- L'Auberge de la Montagne Peléeplace to stay · 2.6 km · 7 within 10 km
- Le Morne-Rougenearest town · 5.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Le Morne-RougeBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport (FDF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 30 km in a straight lineCar hire at FDF airport (Fort-de-France)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
- 14other viewpoints within 5 kmTable d'orientation, Panorama du deuxième refuge, L’Aileron and 11 more
- 19named peaks within 5 kmLe Chinois, Piton Marcel, Piton Mont Conil and 16 more
- 1marked trails within 3 km
- 4shelters and huts within 5 kmTroisième refuge, Deuxième refuge and 2 more
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmOffice du Tourisme
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7places to stay within 10 kmL'Auberge de la Montagne Pelée, Habitation Anse Couleuvre, Tante Arlette and 4 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- campsites within 10 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 Pelée, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas17 mountains within 25 km
Coastya20 beaches within 10 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 Pelée
France
- 89Viewyas Score
- 170 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 1,352 mAltitude
Morne Diablotins
Dominica · 81 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 16Peaks in view
- 1,424 mAltitude
Mount Gimie
Saint Lucia · 107 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 189 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 892 mAltitude
Pitons
Saint Lucia · 112 km
- 92Viewyas Score
- 196 kmFarthest ridge
- 15Peaks in view
- 722 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q76309) · 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, Coastya, Forestyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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