China summit
Tianmen Mountain
You can see 212 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 212 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).
- 212 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,376 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
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 in August and from November to December.
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-west62 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest60 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest54 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Aprwest44 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Maywest34 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Junnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Julwest28 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Augwest40 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Sepwest50 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Octwest58 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Novsouth-west62 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Decsouth-west62 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
Tianmen Mountain.
Mountain in People's Republic of China
Tianmen Mountain is a summit in China, 1,376 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 212 km away, looking south.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August and from November to December.
Get there and stay
- 八戒青年旅舍天门山火车站店place to stay · 6.2 km · 36 within 10 km
- Zhangjiajienearest town · 8.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ZhangjiajieBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Zhangjiajie Hehua International Airport (DYG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 7 km in a straight line
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
- 21other viewpoints within 5 km天门洞顶, 扣云关, 凌霄台 and 18 more
- 4named peaks within 5 km天门山, 玉壶峰, 长帽山 and 1 more
- 10cable car and funicular stations within 5 km索道中站, 天门山索道上站, 天门洞快线索道下站 and 7 more
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 4car parks within 3 km
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 36places to stay within 10 km八戒青年旅舍天门山火车站店, 天成酒店, 张家界下一站格调主题客栈 and 33 more
- marked trails within 3 km
- visitor centres 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 Tianmen Mountain, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas6 mountains within 25 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.
Tianmen Mountain
China
- 62Viewyas Score
- 212 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,376 mAltitude
Mount Fanjing
China · 216 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 245 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 2,461 mAltitude
Changsha Ferris Wheel
China · 262 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 141 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 69 mAltitude
Three Gorges
China · 238 km
- 32Viewyas Score
- 24 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 158 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3861073) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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