France scenic viewpoint
Point Sublime
You can see 11 km from here, looking 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 11 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).
- 11 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 84%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 779 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 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 July to August.
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-west36 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Febwest26 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Marwest36 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest32 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Maywest36 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Julnorth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Augwest30 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Sepwest26 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Octwest28 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Decsouth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- 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
Point Sublime.
Viewpoint over the Verdon gorge
Point Sublime is a scenic viewpoint in France, 779 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 11 km away, looking west.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Grand Margès (1,576 m), 10 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 84% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Camping Verdon Carajuancampsite · 3.0 km · 27 within 10 km
- Hôtel & Spa des Gorges du Verdonplace to stay · 4.7 km · 48 within 10 km
- Castellanenearest town · 11 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in CastellaneBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 67 km in a straight lineCar hire at NCE airport (Nice, Alpes-Maritimes)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
- 23other viewpoints within 5 kmBelvédère de la Gorge de Guègues, Belvédère d'Eycharme, Belvédere de Rancoumas and 20 more
- 7named peaks within 5 kmSommet du Pioulet, Collet Barris, Cime de Biach and 4 more
- 6marked trails within 3 kmDe Saint-Raphaël à Rougon, Sentier Blanc-Martel, Belvédère du Point Sublime and 3 more
- 4shelters and huts within 5 kmLe clot des Ordes and 3 more
- 13car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmBureau d'Information Touristique de la Palud-sur-Verdon, Point Multi-services, Maison de Site du Point Sublime and 1 more
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 27campsites within 10 kmCamping Verdon Carajuan, Camping municipal le Grand Canyon, Huttopia Gorges du Verdon and 24 more
- 48places to stay within 10 kmHôtel & Spa des Gorges du Verdon, Hostel Restaurant du Canyon, Le Provence and 45 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 Point Sublime, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas57 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 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.
Point Sublime
France
- 36Viewyas Score
- 11 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 779 mAltitude
Col d'Illoire
France · 11 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 128 kmFarthest ridge
- 70Peaks in view
- 1,016 mAltitude
Crête de Géruen
France · 51 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 231Peaks in view
- 1,856 mAltitude
Mont Agel
Monaco · 82 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 135Peaks in view
- 1,128 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3393361) · 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, Lakeyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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