Mexico summit
Citlaltepetl
You can see 249 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 249 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).
- 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 27%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 7Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 5,579 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 7 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 December 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.
- Janwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Aprwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Maywest-4 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Junnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Octwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Novwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Decsouth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- 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
Citlaltepetl.
Highest mountain and volcano in Mexico
Citlaltepetl is a summit in Mexico, 5,579 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 27% of the horizon.
7 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Popocatépetl (5,454 m), 142 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from December to March.
Get there and stay
- Campamento Basecampsite · 3.4 km · 4 within 10 km
- Refugio Fausto González Gomarplace to stay · 1.6 km · 8 within 10 km
- Santa Cruz Texmalaquillanearest town · 9.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Santa Cruz TexmalaquillaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- General Heriberto Jara International Airport (VER)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 114 km in a straight lineCar hire at VER airport (Veracruz)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
- 4other viewpoints within 5 km
- 4named peaks within 5 kmSierra Negra, Cerro Colorado, Cerro Tecomale and 1 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmCara Sur
- 2shelters and huts within 5 kmRefugio Piedra Grande, Albergue No. 6
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmCampamento Base and 3 more
- 8places to stay within 10 kmRefugio Fausto González Gomar, Villas Puerta Del Cielo, Villas Pico de Orizaba and 5 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Citlaltepetl, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas39 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Citlaltepetl
Mexico
- 87Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 7Peaks in view
- 5,579 mAltitude
Estrella de Puebla
Mexico · 101 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 102 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 2,116 mAltitude
Popocatépetl
Mexico · 142 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 5,391 mAltitude
Iztaccihuatl
Mexico · 145 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 5,193 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q238147) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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