Greece summit
Areopagus
You can see 135 km from here, looking 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 135 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).
- 135 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 6%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 43Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 253 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 43 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 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset73%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset85%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset85%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset68%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- 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
Areopagus.
Rock outcropping in Athens, associated with ancient legislative and judicial bodies
Areopagus is a summit in Greece, 253 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 135 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 6% of the horizon.
43 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Kyllini (2,374 m), 118 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Camping Athinacampsite · 6.1 km · 1 within 10 km
- Phidias Hotelplace to stay · 0.5 km · 530 within 10 km
- Athensnearest town · 1.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AthensBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 20 km in a straight lineCar hire at ATH airport (Spata-Artemida)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
- 32other viewpoints within 5 kmTopcon, Arch of Hadrian, θέα Ακρόπολης and 29 more
- 12named peaks within 5 kmΛυκαβηττός, Λόφος Φιλοπάππου, Άρειος Πάγος and 9 more
- 4cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmΤελεφερίκ Λυκαβηττού and 3 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmΚλασικός Μαραθώνιος Αθηνών
- 43shelters and huts within 5 km
- 368car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmVARVERIS ALEXANDROS, Κέντρο Επισκεπτών ΚΠΙΣΝ
- 2,228restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmCamping Athina
- 530places to stay within 10 kmPhidias Hotel, O&B Athens Boutique Hotel, Acropolis Hill and 527 more
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 Areopagus, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas62 mountains within 25 km
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas8 caves 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.
Areopagus
Greece
- 82Viewyas Score
- 135 kmFarthest ridge
- 43Peaks in view
- 253 mAltitude
Mount Lycabettus
Greece · 2 km
- 82Viewyas Score
- 135 kmFarthest ridge
- 39Peaks in view
- 248 mAltitude
Mount Helicon
Greece · 89 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 240 kmFarthest ridge
- 66Peaks in view
- 1,534 mAltitude
Mount Parnassus
Greece · 115 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 84Peaks in view
- 2,440 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q202487) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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