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Algeria Algeria summit

Mount Tahat

You can see 238 km from here, looking west.

77Viewyas 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 238 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.

77out 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).

  • 238 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 2,860 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 3 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.

Assekrem2,180 m · 141 km · eastHoggar Mountains2,908 m · 33 km · south-eastTaourirt ta-n-Afella2,079 m · 100 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 December to March.

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. Janwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset75%
  2. Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset74%
  3. Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset77%
  4. Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset73%
  5. Maywest-2 min before the sea-level sunset67%
  6. Junnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset61%
  7. Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset68%
  8. Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset58%
  9. Sepwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  10. Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset72%
  11. Novwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset74%
  12. Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset75%
  • 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 Tahat.

Tallest mountain in Algeria

Mount Tahat is a summit in Algeria, 2,860 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 238 km away, looking west.

3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hoggar Mountains (2,908 m), 33 km away.

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

The skies are clearest from December to March.

Mount Tahat seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Mount TahatGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mount TahatBooking.comSee prices Car hire in AlgiersDiscover 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 Tahat 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

  • 3named peaks within 5 kmIlamane, Serdjat, Tâlek
  • 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 Tahat, 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
Mount Tahat · this placeMount Tahat2,908 m · this placeTahart2,084 m · 3.6 kmIlâmane2,739 m · 4.3 kmTiderghîne-en-Tamettant · 6.7 kmTeguit · 12 kmTi-n-Ahou · 14 kmTidjemaîne · 16 kmTessarte · 22 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount TahatBortle 1 · this place

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

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Tahat

Algeria

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 238 kmFarthest ridge
  • 3Peaks in view
  • 2,860 mAltitude

Hoggar Mountains

Algeria · 34 km

  • 69Viewyas Score
  • 124 kmFarthest ridge
  • 2Peaks in view
  • 2,198 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q822326) · 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.

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