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Grand Canyon Skywalk

You can see 88 km from here, looking south-east.

53Viewyas Score

Viewpoint

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 88 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.

53out 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).

  • 88 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
  • 86%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 1,415 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 September to October.

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. Jansouth-west142 min before the sea-level sunset55%
  2. Febsouth-west122 min before the sea-level sunset52%
  3. Marwest112 min before the sea-level sunset55%
  4. Aprwest108 min before the sea-level sunset61%
  5. Maywest110 min before the sea-level sunset67%
  6. Junwest114 min before the sea-level sunset77%
  7. Julwest112 min before the sea-level sunset58%
  8. Augwest108 min before the sea-level sunset64%
  9. Sepwest110 min before the sea-level sunset76%
  10. Octsouth-west118 min before the sea-level sunset70%
  11. Novsouth-west136 min before the sea-level sunset63%
  12. Decsouth-west150 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  • 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

Grand Canyon Skywalk.

Footbridge

Grand Canyon Skywalk is a scenic viewpoint in United States, 1,415 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 88 km away, looking south-east.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 86% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in June and from September to October.

Skywalk, Arizona, USA (9536805526)
l0da_ralta · CC BY 2.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Grand Canyon SkywalkGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Grand Canyon SkywalkBooking.comSee prices Car hire at SGU airport (St George)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.

Grand Canyon Skywalk 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

  • 3other viewpoints within 5 kmGuano Point, Grand Canyon Skywalk, Eagle Point
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 km
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • places to stay 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 Grand Canyon Skywalk, and what is near.

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

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Burnt Canyon Point · 13 kmTincanebitts Point · 13 kmGrapevine Mesa · 23 km

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.

Grand Canyon Skywalk - aerial
[email protected] (Werner Keulen, labete) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Grandcanyon skywalk hd
Jonas.tesch · CC BY-SA 3.0
Grand Canyon West Rim Eagle Point Skywalk Colorado River
Laslovarga · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1542550) · 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

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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