Isle of Man summit
Snaefell
You can see 194 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 194 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).
- 194 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 24%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 437Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 614 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 437 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 April to May.
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-westsets on an open horizon19%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon21%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon26%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon23%
- Augnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon20%
- 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
Snaefell.
621m high mountain in Isle of Man
Snaefell is a summit in Isle of Man, 614 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 194 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 24% of the horizon.
437 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Snowdon (1,085 m), 135 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Laxey Campsitecampsite · 5.7 km · 14 within 10 km
- Killeabraeggaplace to stay · 3.5 km · 79 within 10 km
- Laxeynearest town · 5.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in LaxeyBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Isle of Man Airport (IOM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 23 km in a straight lineCar hire at BHD airport (Belfast)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
- 4other viewpoints within 5 km
- 18named peaks within 5 kmInjebreck Hill, North Barrule, Slieau Dhoo and 15 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmMillennium Way
- 7shelters and huts within 5 kmFairy Cottage Halt Shelter, Minorca Halt Shelter, Southcape Halt Shelter and 4 more
- 9car parks within 3 km
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 14campsites within 10 kmLaxey Campsite, Sulby Claddagh, Ballamoar Farm and 11 more
- 79places to stay within 10 kmKilleabraegga, Pinfold Cottage, Ard Whallan Outdoor Centre and 76 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 Snaefell, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 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.
Snaefell
Isle of Man
- 85Viewyas Score
- 194 kmFarthest ridge
- 437Peaks in view
- 614 mAltitude
Scafell Pike
United Kingdom · 84 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 239Peaks in view
- 967 mAltitude
Blackpool Tower
United Kingdom · 104 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 105 kmFarthest ridge
- 480Peaks in view
- 21 mAltitude
Snowdon
United Kingdom · 135 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 213 kmFarthest ridge
- 556Peaks in view
- 1,051 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q147557) · 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, Islandyas, Forestyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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