Singapore summit
Bukit Timah
You can see 137 km from here, looking north-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 137 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).
- 137 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 13%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 33Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 180 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 33 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 February to March.
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.
- Janwest2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Julwest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- 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
Bukit Timah.
Hill in Singapore
Bukit Timah is a summit in Singapore, 180 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 137 km away, looking north-west.
The sea fills 13% of the horizon.
33 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Pulai (654 m), 37 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from February to March.
Get there and stay
- HometeamNS Adventure Centrecampsite · 3.5 km · 5 within 10 km
- JEN Singapore Tanglinplace to stay · 7.7 km · 496 within 10 km
- Dairy Farmnearest town · 1.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Dairy FarmBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Seletar Airport (XSP)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at SIN airport (Singapore)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
- 33other viewpoints within 5 kmJelutong Tower, HSBC TreeTop Walk, Observation Tower and 30 more
- 19named peaks within 5 kmBukit Timah Hill, Gangsa Hill, Granite Hill and 16 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmCoast-to-Coast Trail, Wallace Trail, Dairy Farm Loop and 4 more
- 346shelters and huts within 5 kmCatchment Hut, North View Hut, South View Hut and 343 more
- 146car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmVisitor Centre, Bukit Timah Visitor Services Counter, Wallace Information Centre and 2 more
- 290restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmHometeamNS Adventure Centre, Campsite Area 3, Sarimbun Scout Camp and 2 more
- 496places to stay within 10 kmJEN Singapore Tanglin, Four Seasons Hotel, Hotel Jen (Orchardgateway) and 493 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 Bukit Timah, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas26 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas8 lakes 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.
Bukit Timah
Singapore
- 78Viewyas Score
- 137 kmFarthest ridge
- 33Peaks in view
- 180 mAltitude
Singapore Flyer
Singapore · 12 km
- 70Viewyas Score
- 95 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 10 mAltitude
Supertree observatory
Singapore · 13 km
- 59Viewyas Score
- 50 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 12 mAltitude
Genting Highlands
Malaysia · 319 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 217 kmFarthest ridge
- 78Peaks in view
- 1,748 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q720209) · 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, Forestyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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