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Phnom Aural

You can see 243 km from here, looking north-west.

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 243 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.

72out 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).

  • 243 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 1,800 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 3 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.

Phnom Samkos1,717 m · 123 km · westPhnom Krom140 m · 145 km · north

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 February.

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. Janwest6 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon61%
  3. Marwestsets on an open horizon50%
  4. Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  5. Maywestsets on an open horizon22%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon18%
  7. Julwestsets on an open horizon16%
  8. Augwestsets on an open horizon12%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon12%
  10. Octwestsets on an open horizon25%
  11. Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  • 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

Phnom Aural.

Tallest peak in Cambodia

Phnom Aural is a summit in Cambodia, 1,800 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 243 km away, looking north-west.

3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Phnom Krom (140 m), 145 km away.

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

The skies are clearest in February.

Phom Aoral
Boroli · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

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.

Phnom Aural 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

  • 1named peaks within 5 kmPhnom Aural
  • 1campsites within 10 kmដំណាក់ទី ២
  • 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
  • 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 Phnom Aural, and what is near.

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

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Phnom Aural · this placePhnom Aural1,813 m · 0.1 kmPhnum Chrey Mlu · 4.7 kmPhnum Khchul · 15 kmPhnum Tăng Phloch · 15 kmPhnum Chum · 15 kmPhnom Kbal Tuk · 24 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Other viewpoints nearby.

Phnom Aural

Cambodia

  • 72Viewyas Score
  • 243 kmFarthest ridge
  • 3Peaks in view
  • 1,800 mAltitude

Phnom Krom

Cambodia · 145 km

  • 73Viewyas Score
  • 180 kmFarthest ridge
  • 5Peaks in view
  • 121 mAltitude

See the guide

Phnom Kulen

Cambodia · 176 km

  • 52Viewyas Score
  • 98 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 351 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q539772) · 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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