France summit
Mont Ventoux
You can see 239 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 239 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).
- 239 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 16%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 525Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,893 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 525 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 August.
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-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon38%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon40%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon38%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon38%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon50%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon61%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon57%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon51%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon41%
- Novsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Decsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- 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
Mont Ventoux.
Mountain of the Alps in southern France
Mont Ventoux is a summit in France, 1,893 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 239 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 16% of the horizon.
525 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Barre des Écrins (4,102 m), 119 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Mont Sereincampsite · 2.1 km · 13 within 10 km
- Chalet Ventoux Sereinplace to stay · 2.5 km · 44 within 10 km
- Bédoinnearest town · 9.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BédoinBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Avignon Caumont airport (AVN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 42 km in a straight lineCar hire at MRS airport (Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône)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
- 11other viewpoints within 5 kmBelvédère des Alpes, Belvédère de Provence and 9 more
- 9named peaks within 5 kmMont Ventoux, Tête de la Grave, Mont Serein and 6 more
- 20cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmErmitant, Signal, Crêtes and 17 more
- 74marked trails within 3 km
- 7shelters and huts within 5 kmJas de la Couanche, Maison forestière Le Rat, Chapelle Saint-Roch de Brantes and 4 more
- 23car parks within 3 km
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 13campsites within 10 kmMont Serein, Camping Municipal Aqui Sian Ben, Camping Domaine de Bélézy and 10 more
- 44places to stay within 10 kmChalet Ventoux Serein, La Bergerie des Salamandres, Le Mas des Baux and 41 more
- visitor centres 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 Mont Ventoux, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas34 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 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.
Mont Ventoux
France
- 86Viewyas Score
- 239 kmFarthest ridge
- 525Peaks in view
- 1,893 mAltitude
Crête de Géruen
France · 71 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 231Peaks in view
- 1,856 mAltitude
Phare de la méditerranée
France · 129 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 121Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Col d'Illoire
France · 89 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 128 kmFarthest ridge
- 70Peaks in view
- 1,016 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q209064) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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