France scenic viewpoint
Puy Griou
You can see 186 km from here, looking south.
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 186 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).
- 186 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 39Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,651 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 39 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 September.
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-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Novsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
Puy Griou.
Mountain
Puy Griou is a scenic viewpoint in France, 1,651 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 186 km away, looking south.
39 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Plomb du Cantal (1,855 m), 5 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Camping des Blatscampsite · 3.2 km · 17 within 10 km
- Les Chazesplace to stay · 1.6 km · 61 within 10 km
- Vic-sur-Cèrenearest town · 13 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Vic-sur-CèreBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Aurillac airport (AUR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 31 km in a straight lineCar hire at CFE airport (Clermont-Ferrand)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
- 11other viewpoints within 5 kmPlomb du Cantal, Le Puy Mary, Rocher du Cerf and 8 more
- 16named peaks within 5 kmChavaroche, Roc d'Hozières, Elancèze and 13 more
- 29cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmRemberter, Prairie, Plomb du Cantal and 26 more
- 11marked trails within 3 kmVA 10 : Murat - Saint-Jacques-des-Blats, Le Puy Mary - version 20km, Parcours 12 vert - Tour de Mandailles and 8 more
- 5shelters and huts within 5 kmLa hutte perchée, Buron, Buron des Gardes and 2 more
- 11car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmMaison de site de Mandailles, Maison de site du Puy Mary, Hautes Terres Tourisme
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 17campsites within 10 kmCamping des Blats, Camping du Puy Mary, Ferme du Perruchet and 14 more
- 61places to stay within 10 kmLes Chazes, Gite du Tournal, Village Montanha and 58 more
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 Puy Griou, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas63 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Puy Griou
France
- 78Viewyas Score
- 186 kmFarthest ridge
- 39Peaks in view
- 1,651 mAltitude
Puy de Sancy
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- 78Viewyas Score
- 223 kmFarthest ridge
- 151Peaks in view
- 1,858 mAltitude
Puy de Dôme
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- 186 kmFarthest ridge
- 136Peaks in view
- 1,456 mAltitude
Phare de la méditerranée
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- 90Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 121Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q568090) · 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, Darkskyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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