France scenic viewpoint
Views from Point Sublime
You can see 38 km from here, looking south.
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 38 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).
- 38 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 851 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.
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.
- Jansouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Febwest30 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Marwest30 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest30 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Maynorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Julnorth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Augwest28 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Sepwest32 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Octwest34 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Novsouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Decsouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- 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
Views from Point Sublime.
Views from Point Sublime is a scenic viewpoint in France, 851 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 38 km away, looking south.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mont Gargo (1,247 m), 25 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Camping Cassaduccampsite · 0.3 km · 14 within 10 km
- Les Détroitsplace to stay · 3.1 km · 38 within 10 km
- La Canourguenearest town · 14 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in La CanourgueBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Rodez–Aveyron Airport (RDZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 61 km in a straight lineCar hire at MPL airport (Montpellier/Méditerranée)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
- 15other viewpoints within 5 kmRoc des Hourtous, Le Point Sublime, Le Pas de Soucy and 12 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmTour du Causse de Sauveterre, CSG V3 : La Canourgue - Croix de la Croisette, Tour du Causse Méjan and 4 more
- 6shelters and huts within 5 kmCaselle and 5 more
- 17car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmOffice du tourisme du Point Sublime, Office de Tourisme des Vignes - Antenne de Massegros, Office de Tourisme de France
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 14campsites within 10 kmCamping Cassaduc, La Blaquière, Camping Huttopia Gorges du Tarn and 11 more
- 38places to stay within 10 kmLes Détroits, L’Oustalière, Gîte de France and 35 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 Views from Point Sublime, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 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.
Views from Point Sublime
France
- 47Viewyas Score
- 38 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 851 mAltitude
Phare de la méditerranée
France · 103 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 121Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Puy Griou
France · 95 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 186 kmFarthest ridge
- 39Peaks in view
- 1,651 mAltitude
Gorges du Tarn
France · 11 km
- 36Viewyas Score
- 9 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 790 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q16670516) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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