France scenic viewpoint
Col d'Illoire
You can see 128 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 128 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).
- 128 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 90%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 70Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,016 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 70 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 July to August.
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-west58 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Febwest32 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Octwest28 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novsouth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Decsouth-west72 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- 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
Col d'Illoire.
Col d'Illoire is a scenic viewpoint in France, 1,016 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 128 km away, looking north-west.
70 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Grande Tête de l'Obiou (2,789 m), 116 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 90% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Camping à la ferme Les Clos du Laccampsite · 2.4 km · 43 within 10 km
- La Bastide des Cadesplace to stay · 1.6 km · 51 within 10 km
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- Toulon-Hyères Airport (TLN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 76 km in a straight lineCar hire at TLN airport (Hyères, Var)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
- 35other viewpoints within 5 kmVue château, Vue lac, Belvédère de Mayreste and 32 more
- 7named peaks within 5 kmLe Grand Margès, Cime de Barbin, Le Petit Margès and 4 more
- 11marked trails within 3 kmSentier du Bastidon, Tour du Lac Sainte-Croix, Mayreste - Barbin and 8 more
- 1shelters and huts within 5 kmLes-Salles-sur-Verdon - Gleb Sivirine
- 47car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 km
- 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 43campsites within 10 kmCamping à la ferme Les Clos du Lac, Le Galetas - Fermé pour le moment / Closed for now, Aire de camping-car Le Galetas - Fermé pour le moment / Closed for now and 40 more
- 51places to stay within 10 kmLa Bastide des Cades, La Lyalis, Le Chabassole and 48 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 Col d'Illoire, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas40 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Col d'Illoire
France
- 69Viewyas Score
- 128 kmFarthest ridge
- 70Peaks in view
- 1,016 mAltitude
Crête de Géruen
France · 50 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 231Peaks in view
- 1,856 mAltitude
Mont Ventoux
France · 89 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 239 kmFarthest ridge
- 525Peaks in view
- 1,893 mAltitude
Mont Agel
Monaco · 94 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 135Peaks in view
- 1,128 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q117847951) · 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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