France scenic viewpoint
La Flégère
You can see 31 km from here, looking south-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 31 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).
- 31 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 80%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 76Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,964 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 76 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-west48 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febsouth-west62 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest88 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Aprwest88 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Maywest114 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Junwest128 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julwest120 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Augwest100 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwest102 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octsouth-west70 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west52 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west42 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
La Flégère.
Mountain in France
La Flégère is a scenic viewpoint in France, 1,964 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 31 km away, looking south-west.
76 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mont Blanc (4,806 m), 14 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 80% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Bivouac Chéseryscampsite · 2.4 km · 30 within 10 km
- La Flégèreplace to stay · 0.2 km · 131 within 10 km
- Chamonix-Mont-Blancnearest town · 4.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Chamonix-Mont-BlancBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Annecy Meythet airport (NCY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 61 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
- 23other viewpoints within 5 kmSignal Forbes, Les Sources de l'Arveyron, Point de vue sur la Mer de Glace and 20 more
- 42named peaks within 5 kmSignal Forbes, Triangle de l'Herse, Aiguille du Belvédère and 39 more
- 79cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmBrévent, Aiguille du Midi 1, Plan Joran and 76 more
- 102marked trails within 3 kmSentier des Gardes, Rocher des Mottets - Montenvers, Chalet du Chapeau and 99 more
- 20shelters and huts within 5 kmChalets de la Pendant and 19 more
- 31car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmOffice de Tourisme, Office du Tourisme, Club Alpin Français de Chamonix and 2 more
- 17restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 30campsites within 10 kmBivouac Chéserys, Mer de Glace, Camping du Glacier D'Argentiere and 27 more
- 131places to stay within 10 kmLa Flégère, Hôtel Eden, Gite le Belvedere and 128 more
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 La Flégère, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas403 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas10 waterfalls 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.
La Flégère
France
- 44Viewyas Score
- 31 kmFarthest ridge
- 76Peaks in view
- 1,964 mAltitude
Chaîne des Fiz
France · 8 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 236 kmFarthest ridge
- 778Peaks in view
- 2,694 mAltitude
Mont Blanc
France · 14 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,263Peaks in view
- 4,791 mAltitude
Grandes Jorasses
Italy · 13 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,298Peaks in view
- 4,128 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3209029) · 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, Lakeyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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