France scenic viewpoint
Puy de Dôme
You can see 186 km from here, looking north-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 186 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).
- 186 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 136Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,456 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 136 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 July to September.
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 horizon24%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon35%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon34%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon30%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon44%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon43%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon43%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon34%
- Novsouth-westsets on an open horizon27%
- Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- 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
Puy de Dôme.
Volcano in France
Puy de Dôme is a scenic viewpoint in France, 1,456 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 186 km away, looking north-east.
136 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Puy de Sancy (1,885 m), 30 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Aire de service de camping car d'Orcinescampsite · 4.1 km · 9 within 10 km
- Archipel Volcansplace to stay · 3.0 km · 46 within 10 km
- Orcinesnearest town · 4.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in OrcinesBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airport (CFE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 16 km in a straight lineCar hire at CFE airport (Clermont-Ferrand)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
- 18other viewpoints within 5 km
- 2named peaks within 5 kmPuy de Manson, Puy de Montrodeix
- 10marked trails within 3 kmBoucle des Dômes, Le Puy de Montrodeix, Tour du Puy de Dôme and 7 more
- 5shelters and huts within 5 km
- 13car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmMaison du site
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmAire de service de camping car d'Orcines, Aire de campings-cars de vulcania, Huttopia Royat and 6 more
- 46places to stay within 10 kmArchipel Volcans, Espace Volcan, Hôtel Athéna and 43 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Puy de Dôme, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas104 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 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.
Puy de Dôme
France
- 78Viewyas Score
- 186 kmFarthest ridge
- 136Peaks in view
- 1,456 mAltitude
Puy de Sancy
France · 29 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 223 kmFarthest ridge
- 151Peaks in view
- 1,858 mAltitude
Puy Griou
France · 79 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 186 kmFarthest ridge
- 39Peaks in view
- 1,651 mAltitude
Phare de la méditerranée
France · 261 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 121Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q607372) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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