France cliff
Rochers du Saussois
You can see 12 km from here, looking south-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 12 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).
- 12 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 92%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 138 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
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-west16 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest20 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Marwest22 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Aprwest16 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Maynorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Julnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Augwest18 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Octwest22 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- 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
Rochers du Saussois.
Cliff in France; geonames ID = 2975714
Rochers du Saussois is a cliff in France, 138 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 12 km away, looking south-west.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 92% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Camping Merry-Sur-Yonnecampsite · 0.2 km · 7 within 10 km
- Demeure Saint-Françoisplace to stay · 3.9 km · 13 within 10 km
- Vermentonnearest town · 13 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in VermentonBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Chalons Vatry airport (XCR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 141 km in a straight lineCar hire in TroyesDiscover 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
- 5other viewpoints within 5 kmTable d'Orientation and 4 more
- 5named peaks within 5 kmGevre, Le Crot Blanc, La Pierre Bise and 2 more
- 2marked trails within 3 kmTour de L'Avallonnais, Tour des Méandres de l'Yonne
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 9car parks within 3 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmCamping Merry-Sur-Yonne, Camping Municipal de Mailly le Château, Le Petit Port and 4 more
- 13places to stay within 10 kmDemeure Saint-François, Gîte de Fontenille, Le Clos de Lucy and 10 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres 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 Rochers du Saussois, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas1 mountains within 25 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.
Rochers du Saussois
France
- 39Viewyas Score
- 12 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 138 mAltitude
Puy de Dôme
France · 206 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 186 kmFarthest ridge
- 136Peaks in view
- 1,456 mAltitude
Jura Mountains
Switzerland · 182 km
- 70Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 77Peaks in view
- 444 mAltitude
Puy de Sancy
France · 235 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 223 kmFarthest ridge
- 151Peaks in view
- 1,858 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3226928) · 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, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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