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Titlis

You can see 216 km from here, looking north.

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 216 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.

77out 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).

  • 216 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 1,707Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 3,167 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 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.

  1. Jansouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  2. Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  3. Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  4. Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  5. Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  6. Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  7. Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  8. Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  9. Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  10. Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  11. Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  12. Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  • 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

Titlis.

Swiss mountain of the Urner Alps

Titlis is a summit in Switzerland, 3,167 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 216 km away, looking north.

1,707 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Finsteraarhorn (4,274 m), 35 km away.

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

The skies are clearest from July to September.

Engelberg-Titlis cableway wallpaper
Natan Flayer · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Titlis 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

  • 11other viewpoints within 5 kmHundschuft, Klein Titlis, Stotzig Egg and 8 more
  • 48named peaks within 5 kmTitlis, Wendenhorn, Rotstöckli and 45 more
  • 67cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmTrübsee, Station Seite Jochpass (Trübsee Hopper), Talstation Sessellift Jochstock-Xpress and 64 more
  • 6marked trails within 3 kmHerrenrütiboden - Alpenrösli, Guferplatten - Chli Sustli, Sustenbrüggli - Sustlihütte (Leiternweg) and 3 more
  • 7shelters and huts within 5 kmForsthütte Horbisblick, Biwak am Grassen, Salon-Alp and 4 more
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Eienwäldli, Camping Gadmen, Stellplatz Truft, Gadmen
  • 46places to stay within 10 kmSustlihütte SAC, Eienwäldli, Berggasthaus Hospiz Sustenpass and 43 more
  • 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 Titlis, and what is near.

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

Peakyas619 mountains within 25 km
Titlis · this placeTitlis3,238 m · 0.2 kmSustenhorn3,503 m · 8.2 kmHinter Tierberg3,445 m · 10 kmEggstock3,555 m · 13 kmSchneestock3,608 m · 14 kmDammastock3,630 m · 14 kmTiefenstock3,515 m · 16 kmGalenstock3,586 m · 18 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Trüebsee0.2 km² · 4.2 kmEngstlensee0.3 km² · 6.1 kmMelchsee0.3 km² · 12 kmGöscheneralpsee0.8 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas11 dark-sky places within 30 km
TieralplistockBortle 3 · 16 kmGalenstockBortle 2 · 18 kmAare GorgeBortle 3 · 18 kmPizzo CentraleBortle 3 · 25 kmPizzo LucendroBortle 3 · 27 kmWitenwasserenstockBortle 3 · 27 kmEwigschneehornBortle 3 · 28 kmPizzo RotondoBortle 3 · 28 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Schöllenen Gorge · 16 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.

.00 1069 Engelberg - Titlis und Fürenalb
W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Titlis, Kleintitlis und Sustenhorn von Pilatus
Paradise Chronicle · CC BY-SA 4.0
Titlis Rotair
Björn Söderqvist · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Titlis

Switzerland

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 216 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1,707Peaks in view
  • 3,167 mAltitude

Mount Pilatus

Switzerland · 27 km

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 189 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1,372Peaks in view
  • 2,065 mAltitude

See the guide

Schreckhorn

Switzerland · 32 km

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1,630Peaks in view
  • 3,919 mAltitude

See the guide

Finsteraarhorn

Switzerland · 35 km

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1,962Peaks in view
  • 4,065 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q15138) · 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.