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View from the Balcon de la Mescla

You can see 7 km from here, looking south-east.

37Viewyas Score

Viewpoint

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 7 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.

37out 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).

  • 7 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
  • 87%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 805 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

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 July 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-west56 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  2. Febsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  3. Marwest32 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  4. Aprwest42 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  5. Maywest62 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  6. Junwest76 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  7. Julwest70 min before the sea-level sunset66%
  8. Augwest46 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  9. Sepwest32 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  10. Octwest34 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  11. Novsouth-west52 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  12. Decsouth-west54 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  • 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

View from the Balcon de la Mescla.

View from the Balcon de la Mescla is a scenic viewpoint in France, 805 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 7 km away, looking south-east.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 87% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Gorges du Verdon au balcon de la Mescla -1
MOSSOT · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

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.

View from the Balcon de la Mescla 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

  • 37other viewpoints within 5 kmBalcon de la Mescla, Belvédère de la Gorge de Guègues, La Mescla and 34 more
  • 8named peaks within 5 kmSommet du Chastillon, Collet Barris, Le Grignas and 5 more
  • 5marked trails within 3 kmDe Saint-Raphaël à Rougon, Sentier de l'Imbut, Sentier Blanc-Martel and 2 more
  • 3shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 32car parks within 3 km
  • 2visitor centres within 5 kmBureau d'Information Touristique de la Palud-sur-Verdon
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 12campsites within 10 kmLa Maison d’Adèle, Bio Verdon, Camping municipal le Grand Canyon and 9 more
  • 27places to stay within 10 kmLa Commanderie de Saint Maymes, Gîte d'étape de la Ferme des Cavaliers, Chalet de la Maline and 24 more
  • cable car and funicular stations 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 View from the Balcon de la Mescla, and what is near.

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

Peakyas48 mountains within 25 km
Cime de Barbin1,561 m · 7.1 kmGrand Margès1,576 m · 8.4 kmMourre de Chanier1,930 m · 12 kmMont Chiran1,905 m · 15 kmMontagne de Vibres1,383 m · 18 kmCoulet de Calasse1,475 m · 19 kmmontagne de Lachens1,712 m · 22 kmLa Berque1,376 m · 24 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Verdon Gorge700 m · 1.4 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Baume · 9.5 kmGrottes troglodytiques de Villecroze · 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Artuby54 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.

Balcon de la Mescla 1
Einaz80 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Balcon de la Mescla 2
Einaz80 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Restaurant Le Relais des Balcons, roundtrip Gorges du Verdon, Grand Canyon du Verdon - panoramio
qwesy qwesy · CC BY 3.0

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q117750787) · 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, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas

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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