Ecuador volcano
Tungurahua volcano
You can see 249 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 249 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).
- 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 88%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 13Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 4,905 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 13 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 June 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-west126 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest108 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Marwest88 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Aprwest62 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Maywest42 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Junnorth-west32 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Julwest36 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Augwest54 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Sepwest78 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Octwest100 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Novwest122 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west128 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- 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
Tungurahua volcano.
Volcano in Ecuador
Tungurahua volcano is a volcano in Ecuador, 4,905 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking north-east.
13 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Cotopaxi volcano (5,897 m), 88 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 88% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- Eco Camping Lo de Faustocampsite · 7.6 km · 6 within 10 km
- Tungurahua Refugioplace to stay · 1.9 km · 191 within 10 km
- Bañosnearest town · 8.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BañosBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Cotopaxi International Airport (LTX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 65 km in a straight lineCar hire at UIO airport (Quito)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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 kmVolcán Tungurahua, El Copete
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmParque Nacional Sangay
- 6campsites within 10 kmEco Camping Lo de Fausto, Camping Lo De Fausto Alojamiento, Illuchi Camping and 3 more
- 191places to stay within 10 kmTungurahua Refugio, Toboganes de Nahuazo, Hosteria y Spa Isla de Baños and 188 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- car parks within 3 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Tungurahua volcano, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas2 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.
Tungurahua volcano
Ecuador
- 67Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 13Peaks in view
- 4,905 mAltitude
Chimborazo
Ecuador · 42 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 6,250 mAltitude
Sangay volcano
Ecuador · 61 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 7Peaks in view
- 5,292 mAltitude
Cotopaxi volcano
Ecuador · 87 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 19Peaks in view
- 5,849 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q207421) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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