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Aust Cliff

You can see 98 km from here, looking south-west.

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 98 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.

66out 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).

  • 98 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
  • 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 1%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 27Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 25 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 27 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.

Dundry Hill223 m · 23 km · southBlack Down325 m · 33 km · southWavering Down211 m · 37 km · south-westWills Neck384 m · 67 km · south-westBrean Down97 m · 42 km · south-westDunkery Beacon520 m · 83 km · south-westSelworthy Beacon308 m · 77 km · south-westWind Hill261 m · 92 km · south-westTair Onnen [Tair Onen (Pantylladron)]137 m · 55 km · westGarth Hill307 m · 46 km · westMynydd Rudry222 m · 38 km · westMynydd Machen362 m · 34 km · westMynydd y Lan381 m · 36 km · westWentwood309 m · 14 km · westGwastad551 m · 37 km · north-westMynydd Garnclochdy448 m · 32 km · north-westBeacon Hill306 m · 17 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 April to May, in July and in 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.

  1. Jansouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  2. Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  3. Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  4. Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  5. Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  6. Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  7. Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  8. Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  9. Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  10. Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  11. Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  12. Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  • 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

Aust Cliff.

Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, England, UK

Aust Cliff is a cliff in United Kingdom, 25 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 98 km away, looking south-west.

27 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Wills Neck (384 m), 67 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from April to May, in July and in September.

Aust cliff, from Beachley
Andy Dingley · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Aust Cliff 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

  • 2other viewpoints within 5 km
  • 5named peaks within 5 kmRed Hill, Catherine Hill, Awkley Hill and 2 more
  • 4marked trails within 3 kmJubilee Way (South Gloucestershire), Severn Way (3) Worcester to Bristol, Wales Coast Path (South Wales) and 1 more
  • 5shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 26car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Information Centre
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmCliff Farm, Vine Farm Caravan Park, Woodhouse Park Activity Centre and 6 more
  • 38places to stay within 10 kmTravelodge Bristol Severn View, St Pierre Country Club, Two Rivers Hotel and 35 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 Aust Cliff, and what is near.

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

Peakyas59 mountains within 25 km
Nex Common285 m · 12 kmDevauden Hill277 m · 12 kmGray Hill273 m · 14 kmWentwood309 m · 14 kmParkhouse Rocks276 m · 16 kmGolden Hill273 m · 16 kmBeacon Hill306 m · 17 kmThe Kymin256 m · 23 km
Forestyas3 forests and trees within 15 km
Tortworth Court · 13 kmUniversity of Bristol Botanic Garden · 14 kmWentwood · 14 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Avon Gorge90 m · 16 km
Cavernyas4 caves within 20 km
St Peter's Cave · 4.2 kmOtter Hole · 7.6 kmPen Park Hole · 10 kmClearwell Caves · 19 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.

Looking towards Aust Cliff, Severn Bridge
Andy Dingley · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aust ferry arp
Adrian Pingstone · Public domain

Other viewpoints nearby.

Aust Cliff

United Kingdom

  • 66Viewyas Score
  • 98 kmFarthest ridge
  • 27Peaks in view
  • 25 mAltitude

Devil's Pulpit

United Kingdom · 10 km

  • 64Viewyas Score
  • 89 kmFarthest ridge
  • 29Peaks in view
  • 207 mAltitude

See the guide

Beckford's Tower and Museum

United Kingdom · 28 km

  • 66Viewyas Score
  • 94 kmFarthest ridge
  • 207Peaks in view
  • 233 mAltitude

See the guide

Clifton Observatory, Bristol

United Kingdom · 16 km

  • 62Viewyas Score
  • 72 kmFarthest ridge
  • 105Peaks in view
  • 93 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3629917) · 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, Islandyas, Forestyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas

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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