Georgia canyon rim
Borjomi Gorge
You can see 13 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 13 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).
- 13 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 74%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 840 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1 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 August 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-west18 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Febwest30 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest40 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Aprwest80 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Maywest112 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Junwest130 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julwest120 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augwest94 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Sepwest56 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Octwest24 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Novsouth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Decsouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- 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
Borjomi Gorge.
Canyon in Georgia
Borjomi Gorge is a canyon rim in Georgia, 840 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 13 km away, looking west.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kodiani (2,688 m), 15 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 74% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from August to September.
Get there and stay
- საჯომარდო ბანაკი - ექსტრემალებიcampsite · 11 km · 13 within 10 km
- Erekle 17place to stay · 1.9 km · 110 within 10 km
- Borjominearest town · 1.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BorjomiBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- David the Builder Kutaisi International Airport (KUT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 85 km in a straight lineCar hire at KUT airport (Kopitnari)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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmCross 1 and 12 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmპლატოს სადგური, ქვედა სადგური
- 2marked trails within 3 kmTrail 1: 19th c., Cross Mountain
- 16shelters and huts within 5 km
- 15car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmბორჯომ-ხარაგაულის ეროვნული პარკის ვიზიტორთა ცენტრი
- 33restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 13campsites within 10 kmსაჯომარდო ბანაკი - ექსტრემალები and 12 more
- 110places to stay within 10 kmErekle 17, ბორჯომის ხეობა, Lilu and 107 more
- named peaks 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 Borjomi Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Borjomi Gorge
Georgia
- 26Viewyas Score
- 13 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 840 mAltitude
Shkhara
Georgia · 130 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 111Peaks in view
- 5,090 mAltitude
Mount Kazbek
Russia · 131 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 64Peaks in view
- 4,991 mAltitude
Dykh-Tau
Russia · 136 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 95Peaks in view
- 4,996 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2395989) · 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, Darkskyas, 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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