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Mount Heha

You can see 226 km from here, looking south.

78Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°Long viewMany peaks

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 226 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.

78out of 100

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).

  • 226 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 101Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 2,668 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 101 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.

Mikiko2,337 m · 72 km · northMugongo2,433 m · 23 km · northNyenzi1,735 m · 78 km · north-eastMugarure1,838 m · 65 km · north-eastMubungere1,691 m · 78 km · north-eastBorne Kiriba1,951 m · 56 km · north-eastMuhurure1,682 m · 146 km · north-eastBusamaza1,690 m · 140 km · north-eastKanisha1,583 m · 99 km · eastRutarengana1,860 m · 103 km · eastAkimpama1,514 m · 109 km · eastCankarama1,737 m · 75 km · eastRwinguge1,657 m · 76 km · eastGitwaro1,651 m · 76 km · eastKwitaba1,881 m · 77 km · eastNyarukona1,976 m · 76 km · eastKigari1,888 m · 76 km · southGasagamba1,652 m · 96 km · southSevyanda1,777 m · 59 km · southMont Mohi3,475 m · 107 km · north-westNtsindo1,919 m · 109 km · northBigugu2,954 m · 132 km · northMushabarara2,433 m · 121 km · northRubaribari2,475 m · 84 km · north

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 July.

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.

  1. Janwest2 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  2. Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  3. Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  4. Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset16%
  5. Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  6. Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  7. Julwest2 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  8. Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  10. Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  11. Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  • 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 Heha.

Mountain

Mount Heha is a summit in Burundi, 2,668 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 226 km away, looking south.

101 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mont Mohi (3,475 m), 107 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in July.

Mont Heha Cropped
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Mount HehaGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mount HehaBooking.comSee prices Car hire in BurundiDiscover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Mount Heha seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1named peaks within 5 kmumusozi Heha
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • campsites within 10 km
  • places to stay 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 Heha, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Mount Heha · this placeMount Heha2,684 m · this placeMusinzira2,500 m · 5.3 kmGatwe2,142 m · 5.3 kmNyaruyaga2,145 m · 9.6 kmBatoza2,205 m · 12 kmKigabiro1,988 m · 17 kmMugongo2,433 m · 23 kmGisase2,214 m · 24 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount HehaBortle 2 · this place

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Mont Heha
Abkev · CC BY-SA 4.0
Commune-Mukike
Abkev · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Heha

Burundi

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 226 kmFarthest ridge
  • 101Peaks in view
  • 2,668 mAltitude

Mount Karisimbi

Rwanda · 234 km

  • 75Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 31Peaks in view
  • 4,483 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Nyiragongo

DR Congo · 234 km

  • 73Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 14Peaks in view
  • 3,402 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Sabyinyo

Uganda · 245 km

  • 74Viewyas Score
  • 238 kmFarthest ridge
  • 31Peaks in view
  • 3,568 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1649074) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Darkskyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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