United Kingdom cliff
Peak Hill
You can see 82 km from here, looking east.
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 82 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).
- 82 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 28%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 11Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 140 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.
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 April to July.
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.
- Jansouth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Febsouth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest58 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest64 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maywest72 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Junnorth-west78 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Julnorth-west74 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Augwest68 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest60 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octsouth-west52 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- 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
Peak Hill.
Hill and cliff face on the coast in Devon, England
Peak Hill is a cliff in United Kingdom, 140 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 82 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 28% of the horizon.
11 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Swyre Head (208 m), 82 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to July.
Get there and stay
- Ladram Bay Holiday Parkcampsite · 2.3 km · 29 within 10 km
- Victoria Hotelplace to stay · 1.0 km · 45 within 10 km
- Sidmouthnearest town · 2.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SidmouthBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Exeter International Airport (EXT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 km in a straight lineCar hire at EXT airport (Exeter, Devon)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
- 12other viewpoints within 5 km
- 2named peaks within 5 kmHigh Peak, Beacon Hill
- 4marked trails within 3 kmOtter Valley Walk, South West Coast Path (Section 44: Exmouth to Sidmouth), South West Coast Path (Section 45: Sidmouth to Seaton) and 1 more
- 6shelters and huts within 5 kmJubilee Shelter and 5 more
- 33car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmSidmouth Information Centre
- 19restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 29campsites within 10 kmLadram Bay Holiday Park, Salcombe Regis C. & C. Park, Bowhayes Farm - Camping & Glamping and 26 more
- 45places to stay within 10 kmVictoria Hotel, Belmont Hotel, Hotel Riviera and 42 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Peak Hill, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Peak Hill
United Kingdom
- 72Viewyas Score
- 82 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 140 mAltitude
Danger Point
United Kingdom · 6 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 70 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 36 mAltitude
Golden Cap
United Kingdom · 30 km
- 70Viewyas Score
- 50 kmFarthest ridge
- 20Peaks in view
- 171 mAltitude
Jurassic Skyline
United Kingdom · 57 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 107 kmFarthest ridge
- 30Peaks in view
- 2 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2065828) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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