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Mount Saint Elias

You can see 249 km from here, looking east.

84Viewyas Score

SummitSunsetSea view360°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.

84out 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 east
  • 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 37%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 11Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 5,438 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 11 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.

Mount Vancouver4,812 m · 68 km · eastUlu Mountain3,080 m · 119 km · eastMount Cook4,196 m · 54 km · eastMount Aylesworth2,830 m · 125 km · eastMount Steller3,266 m · 121 km · 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 in 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.

  1. Jansouth-west-16 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  2. Febwest-12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  3. Marwest-10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  4. Aprnorth-west-8 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  5. Maynorth-west-8 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  6. Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset16%
  7. Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon15%
  8. Augnorth-west-8 min before the sea-level sunset13%
  9. Sepwest-8 min before the sea-level sunset16%
  10. Octwest-10 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  11. Novsouth-west-14 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  12. Decsouth-west-16 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  • 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 Saint Elias.

Mountain on the Canada-United States border

Mount Saint Elias is a summit in United States, 5,438 m above the sea.

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

The sea fills 37% of the horizon.

11 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Vancouver (4,812 m), 68 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in March.

Mt Saint Elias NOAA 2102
Mr. David Sinson, NOAA, Office of Coast Survey · Public domain

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Stays with a view near Mount Saint EliasBooking.comSee prices Car hire at JNU airport (Juneau)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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 Saint Elias 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

  • 3named peaks within 5 kmBoundary Peak 187, Mount Saint Elias, Haydon Peak
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • campsites within 10 km
  • places to stay 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 Saint Elias, and what is near.

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

Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Mount Saint Elias · this placeBoundary Peak 1873,984 m · 4.0 kmHaydon Peak · 4.7 kmThe Hump · 9.0 kmMount Huxley · 13 kmHoof Hill · 16 kmMount Malaspina3,776 m · 20 kmTable Mountain · 20 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount Saint EliasBortle 1 · this placeMount AugustaBortle 1 · 26 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.

Chugach Mountains, Mt. St. Elias (39131211445)
National Park Service, Alaska Region · Public domain
Icy Bay & Mt. St. Elias (26156476198)
National Park Service, Alaska Region · Public domain
Mount Saint Elias nw
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Saint Elias

United States

  • 84Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 11Peaks in view
  • 5,438 mAltitude

Mount Logan

Canada · 42 km

  • 86Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 29Peaks in view
  • 5,922 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q770496) · 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, Darkskyas

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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