Vietnam summit
Fansipan
You can see 242 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 242 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).
- 242 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 3,093 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 3 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 in February and in November.
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.
- Janwestsets on an open horizon35%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon42%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Maywestsets on an open horizon23%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset9%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon10%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon14%
- Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- 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
Fansipan.
Mountain in Vietnam
Fansipan is a summit in Vietnam, 3,093 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 242 km away, looking north.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Phu Luong (2,985 m), 98 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in February and in November.
Get there and stay
- Glamper Sapa Campgroundcampsite · 7.1 km · 4 within 10 km
- Cat Cat Hotelplace to stay · 7.4 km · 207 within 10 km
- Sa Panearest town · 8.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Sa PaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Dien Bien Phu Airport (DIN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 128 km in a straight line
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
- 7other viewpoints within 5 kmView Point, altitute 2143m and 6 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmĐinh Núi Phan Xi Phăng
- 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmFansipan, Tàu hoả leo núi and 4 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmSin Chai
- 4shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmGlamper Sapa Campground, Phansi and 2 more
- 207places to stay within 10 kmCat Cat Hotel, Bella Vista, Pink Dream Hotel and 204 more
- car parks within 3 km
- visitor centres 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 Fansipan, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls 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.
Fansipan
Vietnam
- 70Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 3,093 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q123782) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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