Cyprus canyon rim
Avakas Gorge
You can see 52 km from here, looking south-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 52 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).
- 52 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 93%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 34%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 181 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 June 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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset63%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset82%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset85%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset84%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset79%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- 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
Avakas Gorge.
Avakas Gorge is a canyon rim in Cyprus, 181 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 52 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 34% of the horizon.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 93% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- Green Turtleplace to stay · 2.8 km · 55 within 10 km
- Pégeianearest town · 5.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PégeiaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Paphos International Airport (PFO)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 26 km in a straight lineCar hire at PFO airport (Paphos)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
- 16other viewpoints within 5 kmSea Caves, Cape Drepanum, Cape Drepanp Sunset and 13 more
- 5marked trails within 3 kmEuropean Walking Route E4, Cyprus, Main Route, Avakas Gorge Nature Trail, Matsikorido Nature Trail and 2 more
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 14car parks within 3 km
- 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 55places to stay within 10 kmGreen Turtle, Simila Cyprus Villa Callista, Peyia Aniforo and 52 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres 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 Avakas Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Avakas Gorge
Cyprus
- 64Viewyas Score
- 52 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 181 mAltitude
Mount Olympus
Cyprus · 47 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 1,946 mAltitude
Petra tou Romiou
Cyprus · 39 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 66 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 290 mAltitude
Qurnat as Sawda'
Lebanon · 352 km
- 95Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 3,080 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q17310418) · 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, Lakeyas, Canyonyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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