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Rinjani

You can see 249 km from here, looking west.

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.

88out 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).

  • 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 78%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 7Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 3,674 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 7 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 June 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.

  1. Janwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  2. Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  3. Marwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  4. Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  5. Maywest-4 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  6. Junnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  7. Julwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset66%
  8. Augwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset68%
  9. Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset67%
  10. Octwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset58%
  11. Novwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  12. Decsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  • 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

Rinjani.

Active volcano in Lombok, Indonesia

Rinjani is a volcano in Indonesia, 3,674 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking west.

The sea fills 78% of the horizon.

7 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Rinjani (3,726 m), 1 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from June to September.

Gunung Rinjani dari Jalur Sembalun
Giovari max · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

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.

Rinjani 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

  • 1other viewpoints within 5 kmViewpoint on the peak
  • 2named peaks within 5 kmGunung Sanggar, Gunung Waja
  • 2marked trails within 3 kmMount Rinjani (Sembalun BC), Mount Rinjani via Senaru
  • 6shelters and huts within 5 kmPos 3, Pos 4 and 4 more
  • 10campsites within 10 kmRinjani basecamp, Possible Camp Site, camping and 7 more
  • 21places to stay within 10 kmPaer doe 2 homestay, Sembalun Kita Cottage, Sembalun Agro Villa and 18 more
  • cable car and funicular stations 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 Rinjani, and what is near.

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

Peakyas86 mountains within 25 km
Rinjani · this placeRinjani3,726 m · volcano · 0.3 kmGunung Barujari · 4.9 kmMountain Sengkereang · 6.9 kmGunung Kondo · 7.0 kmMountain Layur · 9.1 kmBukit Paok · 11 kmGunung Perigi · 11 kmMountain Nangi · 13 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lake Segara Anak10 km² · 7.6 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 km
Air Terjun Mayungputih · 12 kmTiu Kelep Waterfall · 14 kmAir Terjun Sindanggila · 14 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.

20160317084058 - Gunung Rinjani from the ferry terminal at Gili Meno. Clear summit for once (25550662640)
Felix Dance · CC BY 2.0
Mount Rinjani Panorama
Jaccoob23 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Post 2 Tengengean 1500 m Mt. Rinjani
Midori · CC BY 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Rinjani

Indonesia

  • 88Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 7Peaks in view
  • 3,674 mAltitude

Mount Agung

Indonesia · 106 km

  • 87Viewyas Score
  • 248 kmFarthest ridge
  • 6Peaks in view
  • 2,996 mAltitude

See the guide

Ijen

Indonesia · 248 km

  • 92Viewyas Score
  • 245 kmFarthest ridge
  • 14Peaks in view
  • 2,766 mAltitude

See the guide

Tambora

Indonesia · 169 km

  • 31Viewyas Score
  • 6 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 2,157 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q847323) · 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, Lakeyas, Cascadyas

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

The family

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