France observation tower
Lorient (La Perrière) lighthouse
You can see 54 km from here, looking south.
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 54 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).
- 54 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 10%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 15 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 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- 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
Lorient (La Perrière) lighthouse.
Lighthouse in Morbihan, France
Lorient (La Perrière) lighthouse is an observation tower in France.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 54 km away, looking south.
The sea fills 10% of the horizon.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Roc'h Toullaëron (318 m), 52 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Aire de la Côte Rougecampsite · 4.1 km · 24 within 10 km
- Le Cercle du Quai des Indesplace to stay · 0.2 km · 63 within 10 km
- Lorientnearest town · 1.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in LorientBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Brest Bretagne airport (BES)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 111 km in a straight lineCar hire at BES airport (Brest)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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmObservatoire oiseaux, Le Rocher du Diable, Pont du Bonhomme and 10 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmCircuit de St Jean, Circuit du cimetière de bateaux de Kerhervy, Circuit du marais de la Goden and 4 more
- 94shelters and huts within 5 km
- 591car parks within 3 km
- 6visitor centres within 5 kmOffice du tourisme, Office de tourisme, Office de toursime and 3 more
- 181restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 24campsites within 10 kmAire de la Côte Rouge, Aire Port-Louis, Prairie, Camping de la Fontaine and 21 more
- 63places to stay within 10 kmLe Cercle du Quai des Indes, Les pêcheurs, Le Victor Hugo and 60 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 Lorient (La Perrière) lighthouse, 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
Coastya7 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Lorient (La Perrière) lighthouse
France
- 58Viewyas Score
- 54 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 15 mAltitude
Pointe du Hoc
France · 253 km
- 62Viewyas Score
- 50 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 22 mAltitude
Gad Cliff
United Kingdom · 331 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 28Peaks in view
- 128 mAltitude
Swyre Head
United Kingdom · 329 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 115 kmFarthest ridge
- 22Peaks in view
- 91 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2446458) · 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, Coastya, Forestyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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