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Myanmar Myanmar summit

Popa Hill

You can see 248 km from here, looking north-east.

85Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°Long viewMany peaks

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 248 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.

85out 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).

  • 248 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 59Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 1,488 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 59 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.

Pwedaung1,794 m · 143 km · eastSisi Taung1,456 m · 138 km · eastNampandet Taung1,073 m · 128 km · eastSuklan Taung1,491 m · 144 km · eastOgwe Taung1,278 m · 127 km · south-eastMagyobyi Taung1,237 m · 139 km · south-eastWagauk Taung851 m · 144 km · south-eastMoksoma Taung1,109 m · 145 km · south-eastSangyi Taung434 m · 129 km · south-eastTinwa Taung439 m · 81 km · south-eastThebyutaung151 m · 112 km · southNalan Taung403 m · 148 km · southPauksa Taung1,690 m · 149 km · south-westNatyegan Taung1,175 m · 149 km · south-westYeyindaung1,462 m · 145 km · south-westNatyegandaung1,428 m · 143 km · south-westNganbyudaung1,407 m · 130 km · south-westTiyodaung1,172 m · 126 km · south-westMindaung1,608 m · 132 km · westYingwe Taung1,722 m · 138 km · westSampwe Yung1,296 m · 149 km · westWampum Yung1,863 m · 139 km · westNat Ma Taung3,070 m · 144 km · westPonnyadaung1,018 m · 143 km · north-west

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 December to 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. Janwestsets on an open horizon82%
  2. Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset85%
  3. Marwestsets on an open horizon76%
  4. Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  5. Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  6. Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset15%
  7. Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset9%
  8. Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset10%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  10. Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  11. Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset72%
  12. Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon77%
  • 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

Popa Hill.

Volcano in Myanmar

Popa Hill is a summit in Myanmar, 1,488 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 248 km away, looking north-east.

59 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Nat Ma Taung (3,070 m), 144 km away.

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

The skies are clearest from December to February.

20200217 112000 Mount Popa Mandalay Region Myanmar anagoria
Anagoria · CC BY 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Popa HillGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Popa HillBooking.comSee prices Car hire in MyanmarDiscover 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.

Popa Hill 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

  • 4other viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1named peaks within 5 kmပုပ္ပါးတောင်ကလပ်
  • 1shelters and huts within 5 kmWild Life Sanctuary Guard Post
  • 6places to stay within 10 kmMount Popa Resort, Zar Yeinthingi, King and 3 more
  • 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 Popa 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
Popa Hill · this placePopa Hill1,518 m · 0.2 kmTaungni · 15 kmThonlon546 m · 18 kmNatkan433 m · 22 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.

Bells at the top of Mount Popa, Myanmar
Sarah Tallinn · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mount Popa
Wagaung ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mt Popa
Ralf-André Lettau · Attribution

Other viewpoints nearby.

Popa Hill

Myanmar

  • 85Viewyas Score
  • 248 kmFarthest ridge
  • 59Peaks in view
  • 1,488 mAltitude

Nat Ma Taung

Myanmar · 144 km

  • 87Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 49Peaks in view
  • 3,064 mAltitude

See the guide

Mowdok tiang

Bangladesh · 290 km

  • 86Viewyas Score
  • 180 kmFarthest ridge
  • 44Peaks in view
  • 1,035 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1150764) · 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

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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