New Zealand summit
Aoraki / Mount Cook
You can see 248 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 248 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).
- 248 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 49%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 234Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 3,636 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 234 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 March to April and from June to July.
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-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Febwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Marwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Aprwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Maynorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Junnorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Julnorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Augwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Decsouth-west-2 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
Aoraki / Mount Cook.
Mountain in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
Aoraki / Mount Cook is a summit in New Zealand, 3,636 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 248 km away, looking north-east.
The sea fills 49% of the horizon.
234 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Aspiring / Tititea (3,033 m), 143 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from March to April and from June to July.
Get there and stay
- Bivouac sitecampsite · 9.8 km · 2 within 10 km
- Hooker Hut (removed)place to stay · 7.9 km · 1 within 10 km
- Timaru Airport (TIU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 117 km in a straight lineCar hire at HKK airport (Hokitika Airfield)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
- 38named peaks within 5 kmAoraki / Mount Cook, Te Horokōau / Mount Tasman, Turner Peak and 35 more
- 5shelters and huts within 5 kmEmpress Hut, Haast Hut, Plateau Hut and 2 more
- 2campsites within 10 kmBivouac site
- 1places to stay within 10 kmHooker Hut (removed)
- other viewpoints within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- car parks within 3 km
- visitor centres within 5 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 Aoraki / Mount Cook, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas248 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas9 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.
Aoraki / Mount Cook
New Zealand
- 88Viewyas Score
- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 234Peaks in view
- 3,636 mAltitude
Te Kopikopiko o te Waka
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- 57Viewyas Score
- 54 kmFarthest ridge
- 69Peaks in view
- 70 mAltitude
Clay Cliffs
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- 52Viewyas Score
- 51 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 623 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5059) · 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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