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Aburaj

You can see 194 km from here, looking north-west.

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 194 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).

  • 194 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 1,401 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 1 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 October to January.

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-westsets on an open horizon83%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon83%
  3. Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset75%
  4. Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset75%
  5. Maywestsets on an open horizon77%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon51%
  7. Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  8. Augwestsets on an open horizon24%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon56%
  10. Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset86%
  11. Novwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset87%
  12. Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset86%
  • 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

Aburaj.

Hill station in Sirohi district of Rajasthan state in western India

Aburaj is a summit in India, 1,401 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 194 km away, looking north-west.

1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Guru Shikhar (1,722 m), 10 km away.

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

The skies are clearest from October to January.

Shooting Point, Mount Abu
Dympies · CC0

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.

Aburaj 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

  • 3other viewpoints within 5 kmSunset Point
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Office
  • 20restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 29places to stay within 10 kmHotel Jaipur House, Lake Palace Hotel, Hotel Saraswati and 26 more
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts 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 Aburaj, 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 km
Aburaj · this placeAburaj1,220 m · 0.3 kmGuru Shikhar1,722 m · 11 kmBandia Gadh · 22 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.

Brahma Kumari foundation Head Quarter at Mount Abu
Susant purohit · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mount Abu in Monsoon
RndmCrs · CC0
Nakki Lake from Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary
CorrectKnowledge · CC BY-SA 3.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q695221) · 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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