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Red Cliff

You can see 73 km from here, looking east.

77Viewyas Score

CliffSea view360°Many 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 73 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.

77out 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).

  • 73 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
  • 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 55%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 20Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 8 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 20 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.

Yepton Peak70 m · 70 km · eastMonteros Hill152 m · 72 km · eastMount Obama402 m · 74 km · eastSoufrière Hills1,050 m · 59 km · south-eastNevis Peak985 m · 5.4 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 March.

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. Janwest10 min before the sea-level sunset64%
  2. Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset66%
  3. Marwest20 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  4. Aprwest30 min before the sea-level sunset58%
  5. Maywest28 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  6. Junnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  7. Julwest26 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  8. Augwest26 min before the sea-level sunset55%
  9. Sepwest26 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  10. Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset49%
  11. Novwest10 min before the sea-level sunset55%
  12. Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  • 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

Red Cliff.

Cliff on Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis

Red Cliff is a cliff in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 73 km away, looking east.

The sea fills 55% of the horizon.

20 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Soufrière Hills (1,050 m), 59 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from December to March.

Red Cliff in Zion National Park2
“Jon Zander( digon3 )” · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Red CliffGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Red CliffBooking.comSee prices Car hire at SXM airport (Sint Maarten)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Red Cliff 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

  • 1other viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2named peaks within 5 kmSaddle Hill, Butler's Mountain
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 47places to stay within 10 kmGolden Rock Plantation Inn, Hill Top Vacation Apartment, Tranquility Annex Guest Apartments and 44 more
  • 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
  • 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 Red Cliff, and what is near.

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

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Nevis Peak985 m · 5.4 kmSt. Anthony's Peak · 17 kmSaint Anthony Peaks · 18 km
Islandyasthe island
Nevis93 km²
Coastya6 beaches within 10 km
White Bay · 0.2 kmHuggins Bay · 3.9 kmEden Brown Bay · 4.6 kmHick’s Cove · 8.1 kmPinney's Beach · 9.5 kmLong Haul Bay · 9.7 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
RedondaBortle 2 · 29 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.

Hermitage Plantation Inn, Nevis - panoramio
David Broad · CC BY 3.0
Hermitage Plantation Inn, Nevis - panoramio (1)
David Broad · CC BY 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Red Cliff

Saint Kitts and Nevis

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 73 kmFarthest ridge
  • 20Peaks in view
  • 8 mAltitude

Nevis Peak

Saint Kitts and Nevis · 6 km

  • 92Viewyas Score
  • 239 kmFarthest ridge
  • 53Peaks in view
  • 961 mAltitude

See the guide

Soufrière Hills

United Kingdom · 59 km

  • 90Viewyas Score
  • 238 kmFarthest ridge
  • 34Peaks in view
  • 1,028 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Liamuiga

Saint Kitts and Nevis · 39 km

  • 80Viewyas Score
  • 194 kmFarthest ridge
  • 44Peaks in view
  • 1,042 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q27223353) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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