United Kingdom scenic viewpoint
Devil's Pulpit
You can see 89 km from here, looking south.
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 89 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).
- 89 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 29Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 207 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 29 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 April to May, in July 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Augnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Octwest12 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Novsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- 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
Devil's Pulpit.
Rocky limestone outcrop and scenic viewpoint in Gloucestershire
Devil's Pulpit is a scenic viewpoint in United Kingdom, 207 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 89 km away, looking south.
29 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pen y Fan (886 m), 57 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May, in July and in September.
Get there and stay
- Beeches Farm Campsitecampsite · 1.3 km · 12 within 10 km
- Parkfieldplace to stay · 3.9 km · 33 within 10 km
- Tinternnearest town · 1.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in TinternBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Bristol Airport (BRS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 35 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
- 14other viewpoints within 5 kmThe Giant's Cave, Eagle's Nest, Devil's Pulpit and 11 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmHart Hill, Park Hill, Gaer Hill
- 3marked trails within 3 kmGloucestershire Way, Offa's Dyke Path, Wye Valley Walk
- 23car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 10restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 kmBeeches Farm Campsite, Botany Bay Scout campsite, Heather Dean and 9 more
- 33places to stay within 10 kmParkfield, The Polish Scouts Association, Woodfield Arms and 30 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts 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 Devil's Pulpit, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas75 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Cavernyas5 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.
Devil's Pulpit
United Kingdom
- 64Viewyas Score
- 89 kmFarthest ridge
- 29Peaks in view
- 207 mAltitude
Aust Cliff
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- 66Viewyas Score
- 98 kmFarthest ridge
- 27Peaks in view
- 25 mAltitude
Beckford's Tower and Museum
United Kingdom · 37 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 94 kmFarthest ridge
- 207Peaks in view
- 233 mAltitude
Clifton Observatory, Bristol
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- 62Viewyas Score
- 72 kmFarthest ridge
- 105Peaks in view
- 93 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q96376295) · 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, Forestyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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