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Romania Romania canyon rim

Bicaz Canyon

You can see 3 km from here, looking west.

22Viewyas Score

Canyon rim

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 3 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.

22out 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).

  • 3 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
  • 70%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 908 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 in 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.

  1. Jansouth278 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  2. Febsouth324 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  3. Marwest66 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  4. Aprwest58 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  5. Maywest76 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  6. Junwest82 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  7. Julwest82 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  8. Augwest62 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  9. Sepwest76 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  10. Octsouth-west78 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  11. Novsouth266 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  12. Decsouth250 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  • 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

Bicaz Canyon.

Geographical object

Bicaz Canyon is a canyon rim in Romania, 908 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 3 km away, looking west.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 70% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in August.

Bicaz Garganta
Mihai mad · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Bicaz CanyonGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Bicaz CanyonBooking.comSee prices Car hire at BCM airport (Bacău)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Bicaz Canyon 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

  • 25other viewpoints within 5 kmBalconul de Piatră, Pridvorul ladului, Peștera Bardócz and 22 more
  • 26named peaks within 5 kmMunticelu, Lunaș, Piatra Ucigașului and 23 more
  • 21marked trails within 3 kmLacu Roșu - Păstrăvărie - Lacu Roșu, Lacu Roșu – Șaua Țifrea – Cheile Bicazului (yellow triangle), Lacu Roșu – Belvedere Piatra Ghilcoș (red triangle) and 18 more
  • 8shelters and huts within 5 kmCabină Panoramică (acces cu programare) and 7 more
  • 23car parks within 3 km
  • 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Lacu Roșu
  • 62places to stay within 10 kmVila Veresko (grup), Raza Soarelui, Vila Gal and 59 more
  • cable car and funicular stations 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 Bicaz Canyon, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Hășmaș Mountains1,792 m · 8.6 kmCeahlău Massif1,907 m · 18 kmOcolașul Mare1,907 m · 18 kmMuntele Măgura · 20 kmToaca1,900 m · 21 kmCeahlău · 21 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Bicaz CanyonBortle 2 · this placeCeahlău MassifBortle 2 · 19 kmLake Izvorul MunteluiBortle 2 · 29 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Bicaz Canyon · this placeBicaz Canyon · 2.9 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Bicaz River42 km · 9.5 m³/s

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.

Békás-szoros
Pear Blossom · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chei Bicaz 044
No machine-readable author provided. Laurap assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
Chei Bicaz 047
No machine-readable author provided. Laurap assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain

Other viewpoints nearby.

Bicaz Canyon

Romania

  • 22Viewyas Score
  • 3 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 908 mAltitude

Moldoveanu Peak

Romania · 158 km

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 243 kmFarthest ridge
  • 145Peaks in view
  • 2,501 mAltitude

See the guide

Negoiu Peak

Romania · 167 km

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 151Peaks in view
  • 2,495 mAltitude

See the guide

Hoverla

Ukraine · 180 km

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 232 kmFarthest ridge
  • 77Peaks in view
  • 2,042 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q854055) · 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, Canyonyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit