Italy volcano
Mount Etna
You can see 222 km from here, looking north-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 222 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).
- 222 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 57%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 14Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 3,277 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 14 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-4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Aprwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Maynorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Junnorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Julnorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset76%
- Augwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Octwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Novwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Decsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- 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 Etna.
Active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy
Mount Etna is a volcano in Italy, 3,277 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 222 km away, looking north-east.
The sea fills 57% of the horizon.
14 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Montalto (1,955 m), 93 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
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Rifugio Giovannino Sapienzaplace to stay · 5.6 km · 33 within 10 km
- Zafferana Etneanearest town · 13 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Zafferana EtneaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 32 km in a straight lineCar hire at CTA airport (Catania)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 kmValle del Bove, Vista Selina and 11 more
- 34named peaks within 5 kmMonte Frumento delle Concazze, Monte Zappinazzo, Monti Conconi and 31 more
- 17cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmMontagnola, Piano dell'Omino, Piccolo Rifugio and 14 more
- 3marked trails within 3 kmPista ai Crateri Sommitali, Tagara del Leone
- 7shelters and huts within 5 kmRifugio della Galvarina, Rifugio di Monte Palestra, Rifugio Monte Scavo and 4 more
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km
- 33places to stay within 10 kmRifugio Giovannino Sapienza, Hotel Corsaro, Residence Serra la Nave and 30 more
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Etna, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas12 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees within 15 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.
Mount Etna
Italy
- 92Viewyas Score
- 222 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 3,277 mAltitude
Belvedere dello Stretto
Italy · 80 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 138 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
Ta' Dmejrek
Malta · 218 km
- 92Viewyas Score
- 219 kmFarthest ridge
- 12Peaks in view
- 249 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q16990) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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