United States cliff
Banzai Cliff
You can see 5 km from here, looking north.
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 5 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).
- 5 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 51%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 0 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 April to May and from November to December.
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-west30 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Febwest26 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Marwest20 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Julwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Sepwest18 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Octwest26 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Novwest28 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Decsouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- 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
Banzai Cliff.
Historic site at the northern tip of Saipan
Banzai Cliff is a cliff in United States.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 5 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 51% of the horizon.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May and from November to December.
Get there and stay
- Mariana Resort and Spaplace to stay · 4.1 km · 6 within 10 km
- Saipannearest town · 11 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SaipanBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Saipan International Airport (SPN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 21 km in a straight lineCar hire at GUM airport (Hagåtña)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
- 1other viewpoints within 5 kmBird Island Overlook
- 5named peaks within 5 kmMount Petosukara, Sabanan I Lipiog, Pidos Kalaho and 2 more
- 6shelters and huts within 5 kmPau Pau Pavilion 1, Pau Pau Pavilion 2, Pau Pau Pavilion 3 and 3 more
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 6places to stay within 10 kmMariana Resort and Spa, Kensington Hotel Saipan, Aqua Resort Club and 3 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- campsites within 10 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 Banzai Cliff, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Coastya6 beaches within 10 km
Cavernyas2 caves 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.
Banzai Cliff
United States
- 53Viewyas Score
- 5 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 0 mAltitude
Suicide Cliff
United States · 1 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 228 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11328397) · 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, Coastya, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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