Indonesia volcano
Ijen
You can see 245 km from here, looking 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 245 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).
- 245 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 61%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 14Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,766 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 14 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 August to 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.
- Janwestsets on an open horizon14%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Maywest-2 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Julwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset61%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon69%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon70%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Novwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- 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
Ijen.
Mountain in Indonesia
Ijen is a volcano in Indonesia, 2,766 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 245 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 61% of the horizon.
14 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Semeru (3,676 m), 148 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Camping Ground Paltuding Gunung Ijencampsite · 2.6 km · 1 within 10 km
- Karona Berg Homestay & Cafeplace to stay · 3.0 km · 7 within 10 km
- Tirtopuronearest town · 19 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in TirtopuroBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Denpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 127 km in a straight lineCar hire at DPS airport (Kuta, Badung)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
- 7other viewpoints within 5 kmIjen Sunrise northeast viewpoint, Blue Fire viewpoint, Ijen Crater viewpoint and 4 more
- 11named peaks within 5 kmGunung Madipuneng, Gunung Linu, Gunung Blau and 8 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmIjen (Merapi)
- 4shelters and huts within 5 km
- 2car parks within 3 km
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmCamping Ground Paltuding Gunung Ijen
- 7places to stay within 10 kmKarona Berg Homestay & Cafe, Bobocabin Ijen, Banyuwangi, Catimor and 4 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Ijen, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas77 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes 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.
Ijen
Indonesia
- 92Viewyas Score
- 245 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 2,766 mAltitude
Mount Bromo
Indonesia · 142 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 13Peaks in view
- 2,568 mAltitude
Semeru
Indonesia · 146 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 3,657 mAltitude
Mount Agung
Indonesia · 143 km
- 87Viewyas Score
- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 2,996 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q548489) · 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, Lakeyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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