United Arab Emirates scenic viewpoint
At the Top Burj Khalifa
You can see 135 km from here, looking north-east.
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 north-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 28%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 47Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 28 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 47 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 June and from September to October.
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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset70%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset73%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset77%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset78%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset66%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- 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
At the Top Burj Khalifa.
Burj Khalifa observation deck
At the Top Burj Khalifa is a scenic viewpoint in United Arab Emirates, 28 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 135 km away, looking north-east.
The sea fills 28% of the horizon.
47 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Jabal Al Harim (2,087 m), 129 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in June and from September to October.
Get there and stay
- مخيم القوزcampsite · 5.5 km · 9 within 10 km
- Armani Hotelplace to stay · 0.4 km · 665 within 10 km
- Downtown Dubainearest town · 0.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Downtown DubaiBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Dubai International Airport (DXB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at DXB airport (Dubai)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
- 9other viewpoints within 5 kmWildlife Sanctuary (Flamingo Lagoon), Fountain Watching Hill, Bridge and 6 more
- 118shelters and huts within 5 km
- 162car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmIslamic Information Center, Boxpark Office
- 367restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmمخيم القوز, Dubai Nad Al Sheeba Ladies Centre, Habtoor camp alqouz and 6 more
- 665places to stay within 10 kmArmani Hotel, Holiday Inn Express Dubai Jumeirah, Arabian Dreams and 662 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 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 At the Top Burj Khalifa, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
At the Top Burj Khalifa
United Arab Emirates
- 92Viewyas Score
- 135 kmFarthest ridge
- 47Peaks in view
- 28 mAltitude
Ain Dubai
United Arab Emirates · 20 km
- 94Viewyas Score
- 156 kmFarthest ridge
- 45Peaks in view
- 0 mAltitude
Jabal Al Fayah
United Arab Emirates · 57 km
- 93Viewyas Score
- 239 kmFarthest ridge
- 34Peaks in view
- 397 mAltitude
Jebel Jais
Oman · 124 km
- 96Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 16Peaks in view
- 1,912 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q16471100) · 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, Coastya, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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