United Kingdom cliff
Stanage Edge
You can see 96 km from here, looking north-east.
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 96 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).
- 96 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 24Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 425 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 24 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, in September and in December.
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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Augnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west6 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
Stanage Edge.
Gritstone escarpment in the Peak District, England
Stanage Edge is a cliff in United Kingdom, 425 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 96 km away, looking north-east.
24 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mam Tor (517 m), 12 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May, in September and in December.
Get there and stay
- North Lees Campsitecampsite · 1.0 km · 21 within 10 km
- Thorpe Farm Bunkhousesplace to stay · 2.5 km · 68 within 10 km
- Hathersagenearest town · 2.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in HathersageBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Manchester Airport (MAN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 43 km in a straight lineCar hire at MAN airport (Manchester, Greater Manchester)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
- 21other viewpoints within 5 kmSurprise View, Callow Bank, Great Tor and 18 more
- 18named peaks within 5 kmCarl Wark, Higger Tor, Stanedge Pole and 15 more
- 4marked trails within 3 kmDerwent Valley Heritage Way, Sheffield Country Walk, Peak District Boundary Walk Stage 9 and 1 more
- 6shelters and huts within 5 km
- 61car parks within 3 km
- 12restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 21campsites within 10 kmNorth Lees Campsite, Wyming Brook Farm Certificated Site, Swallowholme Camping and Caravaning Park and 18 more
- 68places to stay within 10 kmThorpe Farm Bunkhouses, The Byre, YHA Hathersage and 65 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 Stanage Edge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas47 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas9 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas8 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas1 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.
Stanage Edge
United Kingdom
- 66Viewyas Score
- 96 kmFarthest ridge
- 24Peaks in view
- 425 mAltitude
Peak District
United Kingdom · 16 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 347Peaks in view
- 634 mAltitude
Windgather Rocks
United Kingdom · 26 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 383Peaks in view
- 408 mAltitude
Hoober Stand
United Kingdom · 22 km
- 68Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 54Peaks in view
- 154 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3496524) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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