Saint Kitts and Nevis summit
Nevis Peak
You can see 239 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 239 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).
- 239 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 84%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 53Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 961 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 53 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 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.
- Janwestsets on an open horizon64%
- Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset66%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Maywestsets on an open horizon44%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon44%
- Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon47%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon49%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon60%
- 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
Nevis Peak.
Mountain in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Nevis Peak is a summit in Saint Kitts and Nevis, 961 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 239 km away, looking south-east.
The sea fills 84% of the horizon.
53 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Liamuiga (1,156 m), 34 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from December to March.
Get there and stay
- Golden Rock Plantation Innplace to stay · 2.0 km · 47 within 10 km
- Market Shopnearest town · 2.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Market ShopBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Vance W. Amory International Airport (NEV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at SXM airport (Sint Maarten)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
- 1other viewpoints within 5 km
- 5named peaks within 5 kmSaddle Hill, Mount Lily, Mt Lily and 2 more
- 6shelters and huts within 5 kmNevis Disaster Management Department and 5 more
- 6car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmNevis Tourism Authority
- 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 47places to stay within 10 kmGolden Rock Plantation Inn, Tranquility Annex Guest Apartments, Banyan Tree Bed & Breakfast and 44 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- campsites 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 Nevis Peak, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
Coastya9 beaches within 10 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.
Nevis Peak
Saint Kitts and Nevis
- 92Viewyas Score
- 239 kmFarthest ridge
- 53Peaks in view
- 961 mAltitude
Red Cliff
Saint Kitts and Nevis · 6 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 73 kmFarthest ridge
- 20Peaks in view
- 8 mAltitude
Mount Liamuiga
Saint Kitts and Nevis · 33 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 194 kmFarthest ridge
- 44Peaks in view
- 1,042 mAltitude
Soufrière Hills
United Kingdom · 64 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 238 kmFarthest ridge
- 34Peaks in view
- 1,028 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1982346) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Lakeyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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