United States volcano
Kīlauea
You can see 135 km from here, looking south-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 135 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).
- 135 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 28%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,238 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 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 January and 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-west14 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Febwest14 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Marwest20 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Aprwest24 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Maywest26 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Junnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Julwest24 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Augwest24 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Sepwest24 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novwest14 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- 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
Kīlauea.
Active volcano in Hawaii
Kīlauea is a volcano in United States, 1,238 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 135 km away, looking south-east.
The sea fills 28% of the horizon.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mauna Kea (4,207 m), 49 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in January and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Namakani Paiocampsite · 1.0 km · 2 within 10 km
- Volcano Houseplace to stay · 3.1 km · 10 within 10 km
- Volcanonearest town · 6.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in VolcanoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Hilo International Airport (ITO)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 42 km in a straight lineCar hire at ITO airport (Hilo)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
- 21other viewpoints within 5 kmUekahuna, Waldron Ledge, Puʻu Puaʻi Overlook and 18 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmPuʻu Puaʻi
- 1marked trails within 3 kmCrater Rim Trail
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 11car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmKīlauea Visitor Center, Kilauea Military Camp Welcome Center
- 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmNamakani Paio, Kulanaokuaiki Campground
- 10places to stay within 10 kmVolcano House, Volcano Forest Inn, B&B at Volcano and 7 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 Kīlauea, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas22 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees 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.
Kīlauea
United States
- 77Viewyas Score
- 135 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 1,238 mAltitude
Mauna Loa
United States · 34 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 4,149 mAltitude
Mauna Kea
United States · 48 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 4,186 mAltitude
Haleakalā
United States · 176 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 207 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 2,954 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q188698) · 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, Forestyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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