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Thabana Ntlenyana

You can see 164 km from here, looking south-east.

82Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°Long viewMany 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 164 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.

82out 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).

  • 164 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 17Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 3,472 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 17 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.

Makheka3,463 m · 26 km · northChampagne Castle3,377 m · 42 km · northMafadi3,450 m · 31 km · northPopple Peak3,331 m · 29 km · north-eastGiant's Castle3,315 m · 25 km · north-eastWatershed2,487 m · 51 km · southThule2,455 m · 58 km · southWalker's Peak3,165 m · 31 km · southThaba Putsoa2,902 m · 71 km · westNamahadi Peak3,274 m · 89 km · north-westMont-Aux-Sources3,282 m · 87 km · north-westIfidi Pinacles3,070 m · 82 km · north-westCastle Buttress2,986 m · 52 km · northCathedral Peak3,004 m · 58 km · north

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 June to August.

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. Jansouth-westsets on an open horizon29%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon31%
  3. Marwestsets on an open horizon38%
  4. Aprwestsets on an open horizon45%
  5. Maywestsets on an open horizon59%
  6. Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset66%
  7. Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset68%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon55%
  10. Octwestsets on an open horizon40%
  11. Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  • 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

Thabana Ntlenyana.

Mountain in Lesotho

Thabana Ntlenyana is a summit in Lesotho, 3,472 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 164 km away, looking south-east.

17 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mafadi (3,450 m), 31 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from June to August.

Thabana Ntlenyana
Matze137 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Stays with a view near Thabana NtlenyanaBooking.comSee prices Car hire at PZB airport (Pietermaritzburg)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.

Thabana Ntlenyana 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

  • 5named peaks within 5 kmMohlesi (Umkomass), Thabana Ntlenyana, Kotisephola and 2 more
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • 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
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • campsites within 10 km
  • places to stay 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 Thabana Ntlenyana, and what is near.

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

Peakyas22 mountains within 25 km
Thabana Ntlenyana · this placeMkomazi · 5.2 kmKepising2,926 m · 19 kmLitšoene · 21 kmMqangqala · 22 kmKambule3,077 m · 24 kmKwaPitoli · 24 kmGiant's Castle3,315 m · 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Thabana NtlenyanaBortle 2 · this place

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.

Almost at the top of Thabana Ntlenyana
TwinMosia · CC BY-SA 4.0
Thabana Ntlenyana from Giants Ridge
Ghaznavid · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Thabana Ntlenyana

Lesotho

  • 82Viewyas Score
  • 164 kmFarthest ridge
  • 17Peaks in view
  • 3,472 mAltitude

Njesuthi

Lesotho · 31 km

  • 83Viewyas Score
  • 229 kmFarthest ridge
  • 17Peaks in view
  • 3,446 mAltitude

See the guide

Mont-Aux-Sources

Lesotho · 87 km

  • 83Viewyas Score
  • 203 kmFarthest ridge
  • 18Peaks in view
  • 3,261 mAltitude

See the guide

Amphitheatre

South Africa · 85 km

  • 74Viewyas Score
  • 187 kmFarthest ridge
  • 8Peaks in view
  • 2,963 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q733132) · 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, Darkskyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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