Saint Lucia summit
Pitons
You can see 196 km from here, looking south.
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 196 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).
- 196 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 79%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 15Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 722 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 15 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 horizon61%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon62%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon57%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon48%
- Maywestsets on an open horizon44%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon38%
- Julwestsets on an open horizon47%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon53%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon47%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon45%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon54%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon59%
- 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
Pitons.
Volcanic spires in Saint Lucia
Pitons is a summit in Saint Lucia, 722 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 196 km away, looking south.
The sea fills 79% of the horizon.
15 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Pelée (1,397 m), 112 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
- Tet Rouge Resortplace to stay · 1.6 km · 66 within 10 km
- Choiseulnearest town · 4.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ChoiseulBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Hewanorra International Airport (UVF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 km in a straight lineCar hire at UVF airport (Vieux Fort)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
- 16other viewpoints within 5 kmSugar Beach, Soufriere, Gros Piton Viewpoint and 13 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmGros Piton, Petit Piton
- 2marked trails within 3 kmGros Piton Nature Trail, Petit Piton Trail
- 5shelters and huts within 5 km
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmGros Piton Nature Trail Interpretation Centre
- 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 66places to stay within 10 kmTet Rouge Resort, Kaye Mango, Rabot Hotel from Hotel Chocolat and 63 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Pitons, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas37 mountains within 25 km
Coastya4 beaches within 10 km
Cascadyas19 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.
Pitons
Saint Lucia
- 92Viewyas Score
- 196 kmFarthest ridge
- 15Peaks in view
- 722 mAltitude
Mount Gimie
Saint Lucia · 9 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 189 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 892 mAltitude
La Soufrière
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · 54 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 240 kmFarthest ridge
- 23Peaks in view
- 1,192 mAltitude
Dennery Lookout
Saint Lucia · 22 km
- 60Viewyas Score
- 42 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 117 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q639487) · 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, Forestyas, 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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