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Mount Yasur

You can see 101 km from here, looking north-west.

55Viewyas Score

SummitLong 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 101 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.

55out 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).

  • 101 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
  • 89%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 278 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 2 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.

Mount Tukosmera1,084 m · 7.6 km · south-westNagat, Vanuatu566 m · 90 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 from September to October and in December.

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. Janwest20 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  2. Febwest18 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  3. Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  4. Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  5. Maywest12 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  6. Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  7. Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  8. Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  9. Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  10. Octwest14 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  11. Novwest18 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  12. Decsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  • 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 Yasur.

Mountain (volcano) in Vanuatu

Mount Yasur is a volcano in Vanuatu, 278 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 101 km away, looking north-west.

2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Tukosmera (1,084 m), 8 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 89% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from September to October and in December.

Mount Yasur eruption 2006, Tanna Island, Vanuatu, VAN 0516
Rolf Cosar · CC BY 2.5

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Mount YasurGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mount YasurBooking.comSee prices Car hire at VLI airport (Port Vila)Discover 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 Yasur 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

  • 5other viewpoints within 5 kmMount Yasur caldera, Fish farm gate, Shark Bay and 2 more
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmJungle Oasis, Yasur camping, Volcano view treehouse camping and bungalow and 2 more
  • 6places to stay within 10 kmTanna Tree Top Lodge, Yasur Backpackers - Cabane dans les Arbres, Volcano Front Bungalow and 3 more
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 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 Yasur, and what is near.

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

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Mount Yasur · this placeMount Yasur361 m · volcano · 0.3 kmMount Tukosmera1,084 m · 7.3 kmMount Tukuwasmera · 7.4 kmMount Mareun · 7.9 kmTangen · 22 kmKapielabama · 23 km
Islandyasthe island
Tanna555 km²
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount YasurBortle 1 · this placeTannaBortle 1 · 12 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.

Lava trails at Mount Yasur Volcano, Tanna, Vanuatu (49181693888)
Romain Pontida · CC BY-SA 2.0
Yasur 1
Stefan Heinrich · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Approaching Mt. Yasur across the ash plains, Tanna, Vanuatu, 12 June 2009 - Flickr - PhillipC
Phillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand · CC BY 2.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Yasur

Vanuatu

  • 55Viewyas Score
  • 101 kmFarthest ridge
  • 2Peaks in view
  • 278 mAltitude

Ambrym

Vanuatu · 391 km

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 225 kmFarthest ridge
  • 2Peaks in view
  • 1,195 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q392766) · 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, Islandyas, Darkskyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit