Philippines volcano
Taal Volcano
You can see 134 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 134 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).
- 134 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 13Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 268 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 13 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 March to April.
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.
- Janwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Maywest8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Julwest10 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset11%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- 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
Taal Volcano.
Active volcano in the Philippines
Taal Volcano is a volcano in Philippines, 268 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 134 km away, looking south.
13 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Halcon (2,582 m), 84 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from March to April.
Get there and stay
- Splendor Hillscampsite · 10 km · 6 within 10 km
- True Calinisan Beach Resort Positionplace to stay · 5.4 km · 35 within 10 km
- Bugaannearest town · 7.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BugaanBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 55 km in a straight lineCar hire at MNL airport (Manila)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
- 6other viewpoints within 5 kmTaal Crater North Viewpoint 1, Taal Crater North Viewpoint 2, Taal Crater East Viewpoint and 3 more
- 5named peaks within 5 kmMount Pinagulbuan, Mount Tibag, Binintiang Malaki and 2 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmTaal Daang Kastila Trail
- 5shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmSplendor Hills, Hacienda Cascada and 4 more
- 35places to stay within 10 kmTrue Calinisan Beach Resort Position, Villa Taal Gold, Flamingo Lake Resort and 32 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- car parks within 3 km
- visitor centres 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 Taal Volcano, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas29 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes 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.
Taal Volcano
Philippines
- 74Viewyas Score
- 134 kmFarthest ridge
- 13Peaks in view
- 268 mAltitude
Mount Marami
Philippines · 40 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 163 kmFarthest ridge
- 23Peaks in view
- 551 mAltitude
Pinatubo
Philippines · 143 km
- 89Viewyas Score
- 220 kmFarthest ridge
- 22Peaks in view
- 1,432 mAltitude
Mayon Volcano
Philippines · 302 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 2,449 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q818475) · 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, Lakeyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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