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Yemen Yemen volcano

Jabal al-Tair Island

You can see 177 km from here, looking south-west.

82Viewyas Score

SummitSunsetSea view360°Long view

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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 177 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.

82out of 100

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).

  • 177 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
  • 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 52%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 222 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

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 November to December.

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.

  1. Janwest2 min before the sea-level sunset63%
  2. Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset63%
  3. Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  4. Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  5. Maywestsets on an open horizon54%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon35%
  7. Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  8. Augwestsets on an open horizon28%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon41%
  10. Octwestsets on an open horizon66%
  11. Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset72%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset77%
  • 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

Jabal al-Tair Island.

Volcano island in Red Sea

Jabal al-Tair Island is a volcano in Yemen, 222 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 177 km away, looking south-west.

The sea fills 52% of the horizon.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from November to December.

Eruption of Jabal al-Tair Island at night
U.S. Navy Photo By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent J. Street · Public domain

Get there and stay

  • Jizan Regional Airport / King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Airport (GIZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 172 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.

Jabal al-Tair Island seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

    • other viewpoints within 5 km
    • named peaks within 5 km
    • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
    • marked trails within 3 km
    • shelters and huts within 5 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • visitor centres within 5 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 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 Jabal al-Tair Island, and what is near.

    Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

    Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
    Jabal al-Tair Island · this placeJabal al-Tair Island244 m · volcano · 0.3 km
    Islandyasthe island
    Jabal al-Tair Island11 km²
    Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
    Jabal al-Tair IslandBortle 2 · this place

    Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

    Photographs

    The view, as people saw it.

    Man observes the eruption of Jabal al-Tair Island
    U.S. Navy Photo By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent J. Street · Public domain
    Tair Mountain - Lava flow
    Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent J. Street, USN · Public domain
    Volcano on the Yemeni island of Jabal at-Tair
    Vincent J. Street, U.S. Navy · Public domain

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    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q978441) · CC0
    SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
    Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
    Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
    CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
    What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
    ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
    Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Darkskyas

    Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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