Pakistan summit
Rakaposhi
You can see 249 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 249 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).
- 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 71Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 7,640 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 71 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 October.
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-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Maynorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Julnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west-4 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
Rakaposhi.
Mountain in Pakistan
Rakaposhi is a summit in Pakistan, 7,640 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking south-east.
71 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Nanga Parbat (8,126 m), 101 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Rakaposhi Base Campcampsite · 8.5 km · 3 within 10 km
- Bangdas Hamletplace to stay · 10 km · 1 within 10 km
- Aliabadnearest town · 22 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AliabadBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Gilgit Airport (GIL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 29 km in a straight lineCar hire in IslamabadDiscover 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
- 3named peaks within 5 kmRakaposhi, Chiring Chish, Monk's Head
- 3campsites within 10 kmRakaposhi Base Camp, Hapakun
- 1places to stay within 10 kmBangdas Hamlet
- other viewpoints within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- car parks within 3 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 Rakaposhi, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Rakaposhi
Pakistan
- 75Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 71Peaks in view
- 7,640 mAltitude
Nanga Parbat
Pakistan · 101 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 68Peaks in view
- 8,065 mAltitude
Trango Towers
Pakistan · 160 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 164 kmFarthest ridge
- 70Peaks in view
- 6,042 mAltitude
Masherbrum
Pakistan · 173 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 91Peaks in view
- 7,734 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q933778) · 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, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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