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Vermilion Cliffs

You can see 96 km from here, looking west.

66Viewyas Score

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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 96 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.

66out 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).

  • 96 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
  • 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 4Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 1,746 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 4 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.

Brian Head3,448 m · 84 km · northMormon Peak2,260 m · 148 km · westSignal Peak3,160 m · 73 km · north-westThree Patriarchs3,138 m · 36 km · north

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 June and in 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-west12 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  2. Febwest14 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  3. Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  4. Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  5. Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset65%
  6. Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset78%
  7. Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  8. Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset70%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset77%
  10. Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset70%
  11. Novsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  12. Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset49%
  • 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

Vermilion Cliffs.

Cliff in Utah and Arizona in the United States

Vermilion Cliffs is a cliff in United States, 1,746 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 96 km away, looking west.

4 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Signal Peak (3,160 m), 73 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in June and in September.

Close Up View Of The Vermilion Cliffs In Arizona
Ray Redstone · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Vermilion CliffsGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Vermilion CliffsBooking.comSee prices Car hire at SGU airport (St George)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Vermilion Cliffs 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

  • 2named peaks within 5 kmLone Butte, Moccasin Mountains
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCamp Land Beyond Zion, Kaibab Paiute Tribe RV Park & Campground
  • 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
  • places to stay 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 Vermilion Cliffs, and what is near.

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

Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
Lone Butte · 3.7 kmBlue Knolls · 12 kmIndian Knoll · 13 kmPoint Rock · 16 kmCedar Knoll · 21 kmBlack Knolls · 22 kmSouth Mountain · 24 kmDe Mille Peak · 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Pipe Spring National MonumentBortle 2 · 12 kmKaibab Band of Paiute IndiansBortle 2 · 15 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.

2016-03-20 13 50 24 View north along the west end of the Vermillion Cliffs from U.S. Route 89 Altnernate in Coconino County, Arizona
Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0
2016-03-20 13 50 31 View south along U.S. Route 89A near the west end of the Vermilion Cliffs about 44.1 miles north of U.S. Route 89 in Coconino County, Arizona
Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cathedral Rock, AZ, Vermilion Cliffs
evelynquek · CC BY 2.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Vermilion Cliffs

United States

  • 66Viewyas Score
  • 96 kmFarthest ridge
  • 4Peaks in view
  • 1,746 mAltitude

Big Springs Lookout Tower

United States · 58 km

  • 83Viewyas Score
  • 193 kmFarthest ridge
  • 39Peaks in view
  • 2,414 mAltitude

See the guide

Observation Point

United States · 40 km

  • 73Viewyas Score
  • 124 kmFarthest ridge
  • 15Peaks in view
  • 1,959 mAltitude

See the guide

Desert View Watchtower

United States · 134 km

  • 83Viewyas Score
  • 228 kmFarthest ridge
  • 17Peaks in view
  • 2,265 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3555922) · 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, Darkskyas

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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