Switzerland / France summit
Jura Mountains
You can see 108 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 108 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).
- 108 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 77Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 444 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 77 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 July 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.
- Jansouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- 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
Jura Mountains.
Mountain chain in Switzerland and France
Jura Mountains is a summit in Switzerland, 444 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 108 km away, looking west.
77 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Grand Ballon (1,424 m), 108 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Aire de camping-cars de Besançoncampsite · 0.8 km · 6 within 10 km
- Hôtel Fochplace to stay · 0.4 km · 56 within 10 km
- Besançonnearest town · 0.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BesançonBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Dole Tavaux Airport (DLE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 50 km in a straight lineCar hire at GVA airport (Geneva)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
- 45other viewpoints within 5 kmBelvédère de Montfaucon, Vue du Moulin d'Avanne, Belvédère de Chalezeule and 42 more
- 10named peaks within 5 kmLe Petit Truchot, Le Truchot, Mont de Bregille and 7 more
- 16marked trails within 3 kmCircuit de la Chapelle des Buis, Circuit du Fort de Brégille, Ville Forte and 13 more
- 121shelters and huts within 5 kmCaborde, Ancienne Carborde de Vigneron and 119 more
- 928car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmDoubs Tourisme, Office de Tourisme et des Congrès
- 223restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmAire de camping-cars de Besançon, Camping de Besançon, Camp de Scout and 3 more
- 56places to stay within 10 kmHôtel Foch, Hôtel Victor Hugo & Spa, Hôtel de Paris and 53 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 Jura Mountains, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas3 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Jura Mountains
Switzerland
- 70Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 77Peaks in view
- 444 mAltitude
Belvédère tower
France · 113 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 156 kmFarthest ridge
- 648Peaks in view
- 337 mAltitude
Hochblauen Observation Tower
Germany · 139 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 226 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,445Peaks in view
- 1,157 mAltitude
Chaîne des Fiz
France · 152 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 236 kmFarthest ridge
- 778Peaks in view
- 2,694 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q178611) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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