United Kingdom scenic viewpoint
Jarn Mound
You can see 71 km from here, looking west.
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 71 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).
- 71 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 28Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 160 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 28 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- 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
Jarn Mound.
Artificial hill in Oxfordshire, England
Jarn Mound is a scenic viewpoint in United Kingdom, 160 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 71 km away, looking west.
28 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Waun Fach (811 m), 130 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May, in July and in September.
Get there and stay
- Youlbury Scout Activity Centrecampsite · 1.1 km · 18 within 10 km
- Lakeside Guest Houseplace to stay · 4.0 km · 108 within 10 km
- Oxfordnearest town · 4.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in OxfordBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- London Heathrow Airport (LHR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 64 km in a straight lineCar hire at LHR airport (London)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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmBoathouse Corner, Kingfisher Point, Muntjac Point and 7 more
- 4named peaks within 5 kmPickett's Heath, Hurst Hill, Millennium Beacon and 1 more
- 6marked trails within 3 kmOxford Green Belt Way, Ramblers Jubilee Circular Walk, Hinksey Heights Nature Trail and 3 more
- 13shelters and huts within 5 km
- 61car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmOxford Bus Company Travel Shop & Lounge, Tourist Information, Fisheries Lodge and Information Point and 1 more
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 18campsites within 10 kmYoulbury Scout Activity Centre, Hill End Outdoor Education Centre, Valley Farm Campsite and 15 more
- 108places to stay within 10 kmLakeside Guest House, Sportsview Guest House, The Oxford Townhouse and 105 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 Jarn Mound, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas7 forests and trees within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q115642133) · 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, Forestyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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