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Darial Gorge

You can see 4 km from here, looking south-east.

7Viewyas 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 4 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.

7out 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).

  • 4 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
  • 47%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 1,319 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 November.

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. Jansouth206 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  2. Febsouth-west206 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  3. Marsouth-west174 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  4. Aprwest170 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  5. Maywest186 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  6. Junwest190 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  7. Julwest188 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  8. Augwest180 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  9. Sepsouth-west162 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  10. Octsouth-west198 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  11. Novsouth210 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  12. Decsouth204 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  • 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

Darial Gorge.

Mountain gorge

Darial Gorge is a canyon rim in Russia, 1,319 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 4 km away, looking south-east.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 47% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from August to November.

Dariali gorge mountain - panoramio
G.N. · 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 Darial GorgeGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Darial GorgeBooking.comSee prices Car hire at TBS airport (Tbilisi)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.

Darial Gorge 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

  • 2other viewpoints within 5 km
  • 3shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 17campsites within 10 kmნევერლენდი, საბერწეს საბანაკე, საბანაკე მეორე ჯვართან and 14 more
  • 100places to stay within 10 kmRed stone guest house, Mari Qishashvili, Grandmother's Guesthouse and 97 more
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés 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 Darial Gorge, and what is near.

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

Peakyas55 mountains within 25 km
Quro4,071 m · 9.8 kmMount Kazbek5,033 m · volcano · 10 kmMount Stepan Bandera4,272 m · 12 kmMount Shani4,451 m · 13 kmShino4,048 m · 13 kmMount Dzhimara4,780 m · 17 kmSakharismagali3,906 m · 20 kmMount Khabarjina3,136 m · volcano · 20 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Darial GorgeBortle 2 · this placeMount KazbekBortle 2 · 10 kmMount ShaniBortle 2 · 13 kmMount DzhimaraBortle 2 · 17 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 km
Darial Gorge · this placeDarial Gorge · 3.0 kmKarmadon Gorge · 17 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Cave of Bethlehem · 9.8 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Furtoug Waterfall · 12 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Terek623 km · 305 m³/sKistinka (river)17 kmArmkhi

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.

Darial Gorge, Terek River 2, Georgia
Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0
Darial Gorge, Terek Valley, Georgia
Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0
Dariali Gorge at the Georgian border checkpoint (Verkhny Lars) to Russia
Jelger Groeneveld · CC BY 2.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Darial Gorge

Russia

  • 7Viewyas Score
  • 4 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 1,319 mAltitude

Mount Kazbek

Russia · 10 km

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 64Peaks in view
  • 4,991 mAltitude

See the guide

Shkhara

Georgia · 126 km

  • 81Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 111Peaks in view
  • 5,090 mAltitude

See the guide

Dykh-Tau

Russia · 126 km

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 95Peaks in view
  • 4,996 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1165879) · 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, Cavernyas, Cascadyas, 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