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Mount Kenya

You can see 249 km from here, looking north.

71Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°Long view

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.

71out 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).

  • 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 94%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 4Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 2,991 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 4 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.

Batian5,199 m · 11 km · eastMount Kinangop3,906 m · 80 km · south-westMount Satima4,001 m · 72 km · westMount Kenya5,199 m · 2.5 km · north-west

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 January to February and in 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.

  1. Janwest4 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  2. Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset61%
  3. Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset52%
  4. Aprwestsets on an open horizon36%
  5. Maywestsets on an open horizon52%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon55%
  7. Julwestsets on an open horizon51%
  8. Augwestsets on an open horizon56%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset63%
  10. Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  11. Novwest6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  12. Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  • 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 Kenya.

African stratovolcano

Mount Kenya is a summit in Kenya, 2,991 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking north.

4 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Kenya (5,199 m), 2 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 94% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from January to February and in September.

Batian Nelion and pt Slade in the foreground Mt Kenya
User:Chris 73 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Mount KenyaGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mount KenyaBooking.comSee prices Car hire at NBO airport (Nairobi)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Mount Kenya 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

  • 4campsites within 10 kmMet Station Campsite, Kisoi Munyao Public Campsite (Mt. Kenya NP), Moses Rock and 1 more
  • 6places to stay within 10 kmMet Station, Mount Kenya Safari Club, Old Moses Camp and 3 more
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • named peaks 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

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 Kenya, and what is near.

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

Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Mount Kenya · this placeMount Kenya5,199 m · 0.3 kmPoint Pigott · 12 kmBatian5,199 m · 13 kmSendeyo · 13 kmShiptons Peak · 13 kmThompson Flake · 14 kmTilman Peak · 15 kmSommerfelt Peak · 16 km

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.

View into the Mackinder Valley 3900m
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
200812 kenya-54 (3211255670)
Franco Pecchio from Milano, Italy · CC BY 2.0
Cape Hyrax Mt Kenya 1
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Kenya

Kenya

  • 71Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 4Peaks in view
  • 2,991 mAltitude

Mount Longonot

Kenya · 123 km

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 10Peaks in view
  • 2,723 mAltitude

See the guide

Ol Doinyo Lengai

Tanzania · 329 km

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 11Peaks in view
  • 2,923 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Meru

Tanzania · 353 km

  • 81Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 14Peaks in view
  • 4,523 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q172070) · 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

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

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