Malaysia summit
Mount Tahan
You can see 216 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 216 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).
- 216 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 5%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 69Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,174 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 69 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 February 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.
- Janwestsets on an open horizon17%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon27%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon28%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon24%
- Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Julwestsets on an open horizon17%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon15%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon14%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset10%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon9%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon10%
- 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 Tahan.
Mountain in Malaysia
Mount Tahan is a summit in Malaysia, 2,174 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 216 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 5% of the horizon.
69 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Yong Belar (2,180 m), 97 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from February to March.
Get there and stay
- Gunung Tahan Summit Campcampsite · 0.2 km · 11 within 10 km
- Sultan Azlan Shah Airport (IPH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 127 km in a straight lineCar hire at KUA airport (Kuantan)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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 kmBukit Botak
- 6named peaks within 5 kmGunung Berapit, Gunung Gedung, Gunung Tahan and 3 more
- 3marked trails within 3 kmMerapoh Trail, Trans-Tahan, Kuala Tahan Trail
- 11campsites within 10 kmGunung Tahan Summit Camp, Kem Bukit Botak, Kem Bonsai and 8 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- car parks within 3 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Tahan, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas19 mountains within 25 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 Tahan
Malaysia
- 76Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 69Peaks in view
- 2,174 mAltitude
Genting Highlands
Malaysia · 143 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 217 kmFarthest ridge
- 78Peaks in view
- 1,748 mAltitude
Komtar Skywalk
Malaysia · 228 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 27Peaks in view
- 29 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q187315) · 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, Islandyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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