Canada summit
Mount Robson
You can see 210 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 210 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).
- 210 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 146Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 3,892 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 146 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 February and 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 sunset27%
- Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Maynorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Junnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Julnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Augnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Novsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- 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 Robson.
Highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies, in British Columbia
Mount Robson is a summit in Canada, 3,892 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 210 km away, looking north-east.
146 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier (3,516 m), 52 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in February and from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Marmot Campgroundcampsite · 3.6 km · 10 within 10 km
- Cabinplace to stay · 3.7 km · 2 within 10 km
- Williams Lake Airport (YWL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 221 km in a straight lineCar hire at YWL airport (Williams Lake)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
- 6other viewpoints within 5 kmEmperor Falls, White Falls, Falls of the Pool and 3 more
- 7named peaks within 5 kmExtinguisher Tower, Mount Robson, Mount Waffl and 4 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmBerg Lake Trail
- 3shelters and huts within 5 kmHargreaves Cooking Shelter
- 10campsites within 10 kmMarmot Campground, Kinney Lake Campground, Whitehorn Campground and 7 more
- 2places to stay within 10 kmCabin, Robson Pass Hut
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Robson, 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
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas6 waterfalls within 15 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 Robson
Canada
- 76Viewyas Score
- 210 kmFarthest ridge
- 146Peaks in view
- 3,892 mAltitude
Weeping Wall
Canada · 180 km
- 36Viewyas Score
- 44 kmFarthest ridge
- 12Peaks in view
- 1,941 mAltitude
Crevasse Crag
Canada · 394 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 189 kmFarthest ridge
- 72Peaks in view
- 2,454 mAltitude
Dutch Creek Hoodoos
Canada · 384 km
- 55Viewyas Score
- 105 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 942 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1161258) · 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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