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Independence Monument, Ashgabat

You can see 75 km from here, looking north-east.

61Viewyas Score

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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.

61out 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).

  • 75 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 348 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 July 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.

  1. Jansouth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  2. Febwest34 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  3. Marwest18 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  4. Aprwest16 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  5. Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  6. Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset78%
  7. Julnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset81%
  8. Augwest14 min before the sea-level sunset87%
  9. Sepwest14 min before the sea-level sunset86%
  10. Octwest28 min before the sea-level sunset72%
  11. Novsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  12. Decsouth-west44 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  • 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

Independence Monument, Ashgabat.

Monument in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Independence Monument, Ashgabat is an observation tower in Turkmenistan, 348 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 75 km away, looking north-east.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to September.

10000 manat. Türkmenistan, 2003 b
Central Bank of Turkmenistan · Public domain

Get there and stay

  • Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
  • INTECplace to stay · 3.0 km · 108 within 10 km
  • Ashgabatnearest town · 7.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AshgabatBooking.com · sponsored link
  • Ashgabat International Airport (ASB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Independence Monument, AshgabatGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Independence Monument, AshgabatBooking.comSee prices Car hire in TurkmenistanDiscover 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.

Independence Monument, Ashgabat 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

  • 12shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 228car parks within 3 km
  • 53restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 108places to stay within 10 kmINTEC, HILTI Turkmenistan, LEICA Turkmenistan and 105 more
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • visitor centres 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 Independence Monument, Ashgabat, and what is near.

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

Peakyas29 mountains within 25 km
Gora Pursaki · 16 kmGora Khalats · 17 kmKhrebet Saandak · 20 kmGora Urta-Tepe · 21 kmGora Mirza-Bagir-Chil' · 22 kmGolūl · 24 kmKhrebet Asel'ma · 24 kmGora Gelyul' · 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Ashgabat Botanical Garden · 8.6 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.

Ashgabat - panoramio
Michael Karavanov · CC BY-SA 3.0
10000 manat. Türkmenistan, 2005 b
Central Bank of Turkmenistan · Public domain
Gorkut Ata Statue at Independence Monument (27506806397)
John Pavelka from Austin, TX, USA · CC BY 2.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Independence Monument, Ashgabat

Turkmenistan

  • 61Viewyas Score
  • 75 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 348 mAltitude

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Turkmenistan · 214 km

  • 60Viewyas Score
  • 63 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 299 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3323339) · 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, Forestyas

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

The family

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