Latvia summit
Gaiziņkalns
You can see 86 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 86 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).
- 86 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 4Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 316 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 4 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 April to May.
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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Febsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- 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
Gaiziņkalns.
Highest hill of Latvia
Gaiziņkalns is a summit in Latvia, 316 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 86 km away, looking east.
4 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Suur Munamägi (317 m), 115 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Hotel Cafe Gaizinstarsplace to stay · 1.6 km · 6 within 10 km
- Madonanearest town · 16 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MadonaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Riga International Airport (RIX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 121 km in a straight lineCar hire at RIX airport (Riga)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
- 1other viewpoints within 5 kmGaiziņkalns
- 23named peaks within 5 kmGaiziņkalns, Dravēnu kalns, Sirdskalns and 20 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmGaiziņkalna taka
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 6car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6places to stay within 10 kmHotel Cafe Gaizinstars, Vestienas pamatskolas kopmītnes, Kučuru dzirnavas and 3 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- campsites within 10 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 Gaiziņkalns, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas9 lakes within 15 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.
Gaiziņkalns
Latvia
- 60Viewyas Score
- 86 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 316 mAltitude
Suur Munamägi
Estonia · 115 km
- 68Viewyas Score
- 96 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 315 mAltitude
Suur Munamägi Tower
Estonia · 115 km
- 67Viewyas Score
- 95 kmFarthest ridge
- 15Peaks in view
- 272 mAltitude
Veczemju Cliffs
Latvia · 125 km
- 53Viewyas Score
- 13 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 8 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1122342) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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