China summit
Mount Emei
You can see 249 km from here, looking 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 249 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).
- 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 3,043 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 in 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Maywest6 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset11%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset8%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset9%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- 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
Mount Emei.
Mountain in Sichuan, China
Mount Emei is a summit in China, 3,043 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking east.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Gongga (7,556 m), 141 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in January and in August.
Get there and stay
- Suishannearest town · 18 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SuishanBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Leshan Airport (LSG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 41 km in a straight line
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
- 3other viewpoints within 5 km
- 7named peaks within 5 km金顶, 千佛顶, 华宝山 and 4 more
- 4cable car and funicular stations within 5 km金顶索道下站, 金顶索道上站 and 2 more
- 4marked trails within 3 km峨眉山登顶路（经万年寺）, 峨眉山登顶路（经一线天）, 万佛顶 and 1 more
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 5places to stay within 10 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- campsites within 10 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 Mount Emei, 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 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.
Mount Emei
China
- 63Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 3,043 mAltitude
Mount Gongga
China · 141 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 7,433 mAltitude
West Pearl Tower
China · 147 km
- 67Viewyas Score
- 245 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 497 mAltitude
Mount Qingcheng
China · 167 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 228 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 1,132 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q134927) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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