United Kingdom cliff
White Cliffs of Dover
You can see 68 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 68 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).
- 68 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 29%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 18Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 104 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 18 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 in April and 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.
- Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest18 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augwest22 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwest14 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west4 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
White Cliffs of Dover.
Chalk cliff coastline in Kent, UK
White Cliffs of Dover is a cliff in United Kingdom, 104 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 68 km away, looking south.
The sea fills 29% of the horizon.
18 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kemmelberg (154 m), 110 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- St Margarets Bay Holiday Parkcampsite · 1.9 km · 27 within 10 km
- East Cliff Hotelplace to stay · 2.3 km · 174 within 10 km
- Dovernearest town · 3.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in DoverBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- London Southend Airport (SEN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 67 km in a straight lineCar hire at LCY airport (London)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
- 11other viewpoints within 5 km
- 12marked trails within 3 kmNorth Downs Way (Eastern), Saxon Shore Way, Via Francigena - 01 part Great Britain and 9 more
- 8shelters and huts within 5 km
- 66car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmDover Tourist Information Centre, South Foreland Lighthouse
- 25restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 27campsites within 10 kmSt Margarets Bay Holiday Park, Hawthorn Farm (Keat farm), Kingsdown International Camping Centre and 24 more
- 174places to stay within 10 kmEast Cliff Hotel, White Cliff Hotel, Bell Rose Guest House and 171 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations 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 White Cliffs of Dover, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas3 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.
White Cliffs of Dover
United Kingdom
- 71Viewyas Score
- 68 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 104 mAltitude
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- 71Viewyas Score
- 67 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 65 mAltitude
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- 9Peaks in view
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- 7Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q754785) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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