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Nepal Nepal canyon rim

Kali Gandaki Gorge

You can see 15 km from here, looking west.

24Viewyas 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 15 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.

24out 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).

  • 15 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
  • 65%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 2,582 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 3 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.

Nilgiri North7,061 m · 9.7 km · eastDhaulagiri8,167 m · 15 km · west

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 November to January.

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-west70 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  2. Febwest64 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  3. Marwest78 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  4. Aprwest92 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  5. Maywest112 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  6. Junwest120 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  7. Julwest120 min before the sea-level sunset9%
  8. Augwest102 min before the sea-level sunset11%
  9. Sepwest86 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  10. Octwest70 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  11. Novsouth-west66 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  12. Decsouth-west68 min before the sea-level sunset45%
  • 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

Kali Gandaki Gorge.

Gorge of the (Kali) Gandaki River in Nepal

Kali Gandaki Gorge is a canyon rim in Nepal, 2,582 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 15 km away, looking west.

3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Dhaulagiri (8,167 m), 15 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 65% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from November to January.

Kaligandaki gorge, Myagdi
Waglebaba · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Kali Gandaki GorgeGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Kali Gandaki GorgeBooking.comSee prices Car hire at KTM airport (Kathmandu)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Kali Gandaki 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

  • 49other viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1marked trails within 3 kmAnnapurna Circuit
  • 2shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmAlu Bari, Holiday Camp and 2 more
  • 93places to stay within 10 kmYak Hotel, River Side Lodge, Lodge and 90 more
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations 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 Kali Gandaki Gorge, and what is near.

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

Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Nilgiri Himal7,061 m · 9.8 kmDhaulagiri8,167 m · 15 kmTilicho Peak7,134 m · 16 kmAnnapurna I8,091 m · 21 kmVaraha Shikhar7,647 m · 21 kmAnnapurna I East7,980 m · 21 kmAnnapurna I Middle8,013 m · 22 kmKangsar Kang7,454 m · 24 km
Darkskyas7 dark-sky places within 30 km
Kali Gandaki GorgeBortle 2 · this placeNilgiri HimalBortle 1 · 10 kmDhaulagiriBortle 1 · 15 kmTilicho PeakBortle 2 · 16 kmTilicho LakeBortle 2 · 21 kmAnnapurna IBortle 1 · 21 kmHiunchuliBortle 2 · 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Kali Gandaki Gorge · this placeKali Gandaki Gorge · 2.2 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Gandaki River630 km · 1,760 m³/s

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.

Kowang, Gandaki River, Nepal
Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0
Kali gandaki gorge
Saddam19 · CC BY-SA 4.0
GandakiPineForest
Arne Hückelheim · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Kali Gandaki Gorge

Nepal

  • 24Viewyas Score
  • 15 kmFarthest ridge
  • 3Peaks in view
  • 2,582 mAltitude

Dhaulagiri

Nepal · 15 km

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 31Peaks in view
  • 8,109 mAltitude

See the guide

Machhapuchhre

Nepal · 38 km

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 34Peaks in view
  • 6,842 mAltitude

See the guide

Manaslu

Nepal · 91 km

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 60Peaks in view
  • 8,035 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5769166) · 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, Riveryas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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