Greece canyon rim
Agia Eirini Gorge
You can see 5 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 5 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).
- 5 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 77%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 455 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 August.
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-west82 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Febsouth-west78 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Marwest76 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Aprwest74 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Maywest74 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Junwest76 min before the sea-level sunset79%
- Julwest74 min before the sea-level sunset90%
- Augwest72 min before the sea-level sunset90%
- Sepwest74 min before the sea-level sunset75%
- Octwest78 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Novsouth-west82 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Decsouth-west82 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- 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
Agia Eirini Gorge.
Canyon in Greece
Agia Eirini Gorge is a canyon rim in Greece, 455 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 5 km away, looking north.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 77% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Άγρια κατασκήνωσηcampsite · 5.9 km · 5 within 10 km
- Porofaragoplace to stay · 3.4 km · 30 within 10 km
- Palaióchoranearest town · 16 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PalaióchoraBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Chania International Airport (CHQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 39 km in a straight lineCar hire at CHQ airport (Souda)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
- 1other viewpoints within 5 km
- 7named peaks within 5 kmPsilafi, Τούμπα, Ωχρο and 4 more
- 4marked trails within 3 kmEuropean Walking Route E4, Greece, Crete, Koustogerako - Polyphimos cave - Sougia, Archaeological route of Kantanos-Selino - Day 2 and 1 more
- 2car parks within 3 km
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmΆγρια κατασκήνωση, Sougia and 3 more
- 30places to stay within 10 kmPorofarago, ΙΑΚΟΒΟΣ, El Greco and 27 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- 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 Agia Eirini Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas103 mountains within 25 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Canyonyas4 canyons within 20 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.
Agia Eirini Gorge
Greece
- 35Viewyas Score
- 5 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 455 mAltitude
Mount Ida
Greece · 85 km
- 92Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 9Peaks in view
- 2,438 mAltitude
Imbros Gorge
Greece · 31 km
- 51Viewyas Score
- 107 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 784 mAltitude
Rouvas Municipal Unit
Greece · 102 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 98 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 654 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2131255) · 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, Coastya, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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