China summit
Mount Tai
You can see 160 km from here, looking south-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 160 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).
- 160 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 5Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,512 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 5 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 October to January.
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-westsets on an open horizon50%
- Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon32%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon36%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon41%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon54%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon55%
- 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 Tai.
Mountain in Shandong, China
Mount Tai is a summit in China, 1,512 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 160 km away, looking south-east.
5 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Tai (1,545 m), 1 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from October to January.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- 电台宾馆place to stay · 1.1 km · 54 within 10 km
- Tai’annearest town · 9.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Tai’anBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport (TNA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 66 km in a straight line
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
- 54other viewpoints within 5 km北天门, 风化岩体, 白云亭(台阶7031) and 51 more
- 27named peaks within 5 km玉皇顶, 大观峰, 天烛峰 and 24 more
- 3cable car and funicular stations within 5 km中天门索道站, 后石坞索道上站, 月觀峰索道站
- 1marked trails within 3 km泰山红门登山道
- 12shelters and huts within 5 km声声亭, 慈恩亭 and 10 more
- 5car parks within 3 km
- 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km
- 54places to stay within 10 km电台宾馆, 神憩宾馆, 气象宾馆 and 51 more
- visitor centres within 5 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 Tai, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas3 mountains within 25 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 Tai
China
- 74Viewyas Score
- 160 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 1,512 mAltitude
Zhengzhou Ferris Wheel
China · 350 km
- 70Viewyas Score
- 150 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 100 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q216059) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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