Kazakhstan canyon rim
Charyn Canyon
You can see 75 km from here, looking 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 75 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).
- 75 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,055 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 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-west24 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Febwest20 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Maynorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Junnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Julnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Augwest14 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Octwest20 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Novsouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Decsouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- 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
Charyn Canyon.
Canyon on the Charyn River in Kazakhstan
Charyn Canyon is a canyon rim in Kazakhstan, 1,055 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 75 km away, looking east.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Eco-Park Charyn Canyon Tourist Complexcampsite · 1.5 km · 4 within 10 km
- Темир Ликplace to stay · 6.4 km · 18 within 10 km
- Karakol International Airport (IKG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 110 km in a straight lineCar hire at ALA airport (Almaty)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 kmВид сверху на каньон, Площадка у реки, вид на каньон Темерлик and 6 more
- 5shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmEco-Park Charyn Canyon Tourist Complex and 3 more
- 18places to stay within 10 kmТемир Лик and 17 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 Charyn Canyon, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 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.
Charyn Canyon
Kazakhstan
- 55Viewyas Score
- 75 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,055 mAltitude
Khan Tengri
China · 156 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 13Peaks in view
- 7,020 mAltitude
Kok Tobe
Kazakhstan · 172 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 192 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 1,108 mAltitude
Jengish Chokusu
Kyrgyzstan · 170 km
- 68Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 7,366 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2231598) · 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 | 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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