Morocco canyon rim
Dadès Gorges
You can see 23 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 23 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).
- 23 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 84%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,966 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 June and from December to February.
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-west32 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Febwest46 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Marwest60 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Aprwest74 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Maywest76 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Junwest84 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Julwest80 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Augwest74 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Sepwest66 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Octwest52 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Novsouth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Decsouth-west32 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- 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
Dadès Gorges.
Series of wadi gorges in Morocco
Dadès Gorges is a canyon rim in Morocco, 1,966 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 23 km away, looking south-west.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 84% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in June and from December to February.
Get there and stay
- Camp Hôtel Berbère de la Montagnecampsite · 3.0 km · 7 within 10 km
- Aunom De La Roseplace to stay · 2.8 km · 32 within 10 km
- Boumalne Dadesnearest town · 24 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Boumalne DadesBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Beni Mellal Airport (BEM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 99 km in a straight lineCar hire at RAK airport (Marrakesh)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
- 3other viewpoints within 5 km
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmCamp Hôtel Berbère de la Montagne, Taghia, La Gazelle du Dades and 4 more
- 32places to stay within 10 kmAunom De La Rose, Berbère de la Montagne, La Source du Dades and 29 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- car parks within 3 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 Dadès Gorges, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas43 mountains within 25 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.
Dadès Gorges
Morocco
- 39Viewyas Score
- 23 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,966 mAltitude
Todgha Gorge
Morocco · 29 km
- 37Viewyas Score
- 42 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,748 mAltitude
Jbel Toubkal
Morocco · 200 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 4,149 mAltitude
Ouanoukrim
Morocco · 204 km
- 82Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 4,078 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q901124) · 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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