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Mount Stanley

You can see 249 km from here, looking north.

65Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°Long view

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.

65out 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 north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 5,015 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

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 July and from December to January.

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 sunset29%
  2. Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  3. Marwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset15%
  4. Aprwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset14%
  5. Maywest-4 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  6. Junnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  7. Julwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  8. Augwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  9. Sepwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  10. Octwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset14%
  11. Novwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  12. Decsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  • 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 Stanley.

Mountain in the Ruwenzori Mountains on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda

Mount Stanley is a summit in DR Congo, 5,015 m above the sea.

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

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

The skies are clearest in July and from December to January.

The Stanley (50427311893)
G. Lamar · CC BY 2.0

Get there and stay

  • Bujuku Hutplace to stay · 1.8 km · 10 within 10 km
  • Savannah Airstrip (KHX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 124 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Mount StanleyGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mount StanleyBooking.comSee prices Car hire in DR CongoDiscover 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 Stanley 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

  • 17named peaks within 5 kmMargherita, Edward, Vittorio Emanuele and 14 more
  • 6shelters and huts within 5 kmBujongolo, Elena Hut, Irene Lake Hut and 3 more
  • 10places to stay within 10 kmBujuku Hut, Margherita, Kitandara Hut and 7 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
  • 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 Stanley, and what is near.

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

Peakyas39 mountains within 25 km
Mount Stanley · this placeMount Stanley5,109 m · 0.1 kmMargherita Peak5,109 m · 0.1 kmAlexandra4,974 m · 0.2 kmMount Speke4,890 m · 2.7 kmMount Baker4,844 m · 3.5 kmMount Luigi di Savoia4,627 m · 6.2 kmSella4,594 m · 6.2 kmOkusoma4,551 m · 7.6 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Rwenzori Mountains National Park77 species · 8.9 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.

Mount Stanley Glacier
Byekwaso Blasio · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rwenzori Stanley Plateau
Vincent Mugaba · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stanley Plateau glacier Alexandra Margherita
Rafał Kozubek · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Stanley

DR Congo

  • 65Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 5,015 mAltitude

Mount Speke

Uganda · 3 km

  • 67Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 3Peaks in view
  • 4,863 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Muhabura

Rwanda · 198 km

  • 75Viewyas Score
  • 246 kmFarthest ridge
  • 27Peaks in view
  • 4,102 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Sabyinyo

Uganda · 201 km

  • 74Viewyas Score
  • 238 kmFarthest ridge
  • 31Peaks in view
  • 3,568 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q221666) · 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, Birdyas

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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