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Suicide Cliff

You can see 121 km from here, looking north.

76Viewyas Score

CliffSea view360°Long view

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 121 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.

76out 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).

  • 121 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 70%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 228 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 1 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.

Mount Tapochau474 m · 12 km · south-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 April to May and from November to 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.

  1. Janwest12 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  2. Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  3. Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset49%
  4. Aprwest18 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  5. Maywest18 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  6. Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  7. Julwest18 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  8. Augwest18 min before the sea-level sunset16%
  9. Sepwest18 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  10. Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  11. Novwest12 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  12. Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset52%
  • 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

Suicide Cliff.

Cliff above Marpi Point Field near the northern tip of Saipan

Suicide Cliff is a cliff in United States, 228 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 121 km away, looking north.

The sea fills 70% of the horizon.

1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Tapochau (474 m), 12 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from April to May and from November to December.

SUICIDE CLIFF
JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Stays with a view near Suicide CliffBooking.comSee prices Car hire at GUM airport (Hagåtña)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Suicide 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 kmBird Island Overlook
  • 7named peaks within 5 kmMount Petosukara, Okso' Do'gas, Sabanan I Lipiog and 4 more
  • 6shelters and huts within 5 kmPau Pau Pavilion 1, Pau Pau Pavilion 2, Pau Pau Pavilion 3 and 3 more
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 19places to stay within 10 kmMariana Resort and Spa, Kensington Hotel Saipan, Aqua Resort Club and 16 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Suicide Cliff, and what is near.

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

Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Pidos Kalaho · 0.3 kmAs Matuis Cliff232 m · 2.2 kmMount Petosukara · 3.7 kmMatansa · 3.9 kmI Hasngot · 7.9 kmMount Tapochau474 m · 12 kmOkso Laolao · 14 kmNaftan · 20 km
Islandyasthe island
Saipan115 km²
Coastya6 beaches within 10 km
Unai Makpe · 2.2 kmUnai Dikike Matuis · 3.6 kmPau Pau Beach · 4.6 kmUnai Achugao · 6.1 kmUnai Tanapag · 7.3 kmUnai I Hasngot · 8.2 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
The Grotto · 2.5 kmKalabera Cave · 3.8 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.

Suicide Cliff in Saipan 1
Abasaa · Public domain
Suicide Cliff in Saipan 2
Abasaa · Public domain
烈女义坑 - Suicide Cliff - 2016.04 - panoramio
Chen Huang · CC BY 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Suicide Cliff

United States

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 121 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 228 mAltitude

Banzai Cliff

United States · 1 km

  • 53Viewyas Score
  • 5 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 0 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q14192457) · 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, Cavernyas

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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