United Kingdom summit
Cotswolds
You can see 45 km from here, looking south-east.
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 45 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).
- 45 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 237 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 6 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 March to May 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.
- Jansouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Febsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest18 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest24 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Julnorth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Augwest30 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Decsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- 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
Cotswolds.
Protected area in south central England
Cotswolds is a summit in United Kingdom, 237 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 45 km away, looking south-east.
6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Walbury Hill (297 m), 64 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from March to May and in September.
Get there and stay
- Jackbarrow Campingcampsite · 4.6 km · 11 within 10 km
- Cowley Manorplace to stay · 3.7 km · 31 within 10 km
- Strattonnearest town · 8.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in StrattonBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Bristol Airport (BRS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 66 km in a straight lineCar hire at BRS airport (Bristol)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 kmBarrow Wake
- 12named peaks within 5 kmLypiatt Hill, Pen Hill, South Hill and 9 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmMacmillan Way
- 3shelters and huts within 5 km
- 7car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 11campsites within 10 kmJackbarrow Camping, Buckshead Farm campsite, The Tree Nursery and 8 more
- 31places to stay within 10 kmCowley Manor, Royal George Hotel, DoubleTree by Hilton Cheltenham-Cotswolds and 28 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 Cotswolds, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas9 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 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.
Cotswolds
United Kingdom
- 52Viewyas Score
- 45 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 237 mAltitude
Beckford's Tower and Museum
United Kingdom · 50 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 94 kmFarthest ridge
- 207Peaks in view
- 233 mAltitude
Aust Cliff
United Kingdom · 47 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 98 kmFarthest ridge
- 27Peaks in view
- 25 mAltitude
Devil's Pulpit
United Kingdom · 45 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 89 kmFarthest ridge
- 29Peaks in view
- 207 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q301833) · 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, Birdyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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