South Africa canyon rim
Blyde River Canyon
You can see 7 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 7 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).
- 7 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 73%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 758 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 May 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.
- Janwest60 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Febwest54 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Marwest60 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Aprwest52 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Maynorth-west74 min before the sea-level sunset75%
- Junnorth-west92 min before the sea-level sunset76%
- Julnorth-west92 min before the sea-level sunset76%
- Augwest50 min before the sea-level sunset75%
- Sepwest56 min before the sea-level sunset70%
- Octwest58 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Novwest52 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Decwest68 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- 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
Blyde River Canyon.
South Africa
Blyde River Canyon is a canyon rim in South Africa, 758 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 7 km away, looking north.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 73% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from May to August.
Get there and stay
- Forever resort Swadinicampsite · 4.7 km · 3 within 10 km
- Blyde River Canyon Lodgeplace to stay · 6.4 km · 4 within 10 km
- Ga-Boelangnearest town · 17 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Ga-BoelangBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit (HDS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 33 km in a straight lineCar hire at HDS airport (Hoedspruit)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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmLowveld View, Three Rondavels Viewpoint, Drie Rondawels Lookout and 7 more
- 5named peaks within 5 kmRondawel Magabolle, Rondawel Mogoladikwe, Thabaneng and 2 more
- 4marked trails within 3 kmGuinea-fowl trail, Leopard Trail, Tufa Trail and 1 more
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmBlyde Canyon, A Forever Resort Reception, Information Centre
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmForever resort Swadini, Swadini - Forever Resorts
- 4places to stay within 10 kmBlyde River Canyon Lodge, Amafu Forest Lodge and 2 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts 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 Blyde River Canyon, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas31 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Blyde River Canyon
South Africa
- 32Viewyas Score
- 7 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 758 mAltitude
Emlembe
Eswatini · 154 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 196 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 1,851 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q886892) · 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, Lakeyas, Canyonyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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