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Këlcyrë Gorge

You can see 10 km from here, looking east.

22Viewyas 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 10 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.

22out 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).

  • 10 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
  • 62%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 225 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 August.

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. Jansouth296 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  2. Febsouth-west84 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  3. Marwest42 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  4. Aprwest40 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  5. Maywest64 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  6. Junwest78 min before the sea-level sunset58%
  7. Julwest72 min before the sea-level sunset72%
  8. Augwest48 min before the sea-level sunset71%
  9. Sepwest34 min before the sea-level sunset52%
  10. Octwest62 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  11. Novsouth222 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  12. Decsouth274 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  • 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

Këlcyrë Gorge.

Gorge in Albania

Këlcyrë Gorge is a canyon rim in Albania, 225 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 10 km away, looking east.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 62% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Tepelenë District, Albania - panoramio (4) (cropped)
Thanas Todhe (Guri Q… · CC BY 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Këlcyrë GorgeGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Këlcyrë GorgeBooking.comSee prices Car hire at CFU airport (Kerkyra)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.

Këlcyrë 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

  • 6named peaks within 5 kmMaja Qesenikut, Maja Sheshi Malit, Maja Golikut and 3 more
  • 1marked trails within 3 kmPeshtan - Përmet
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmVjosa, Good place to camp
  • 9places to stay within 10 kmHotel Bar Restorant River, Klissura, Hotel Mandi and 6 more
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 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 Këlcyrë Gorge, and what is near.

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

Peakyas56 mountains within 25 km
Mount Trebeshinë1,923 m · 7.1 kmMal Trebeshine1,853 m · 8.8 kmMal Skafed1,689 m · 14 kmMali i Kuzozajt1,938 m · 17 kmMount Dhëmbel2,050 m · 17 kmMali i Lunxhërisë2,155 m · 19 kmMaja e Lalucit2,082 m · 20 kmMaja e Policanit2,117 m · 22 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Këlcyrë GorgeBortle 2 · this placeOsum CanyonBortle 2 · 21 kmLengariceBortle 2 · 24 kmMount NemërçkëBortle 2 · 27 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Këlcyrë Gorge · this placeKëlcyrë Gorge · 2.9 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Vjosa280 kmBënça

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.

Këlcyrë Gorge, Albania - panoramio (2)
Thanas Todhe (Guri Q… · CC BY 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Këlcyrë Gorge

Albania

  • 22Viewyas Score
  • 10 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 225 mAltitude

Smolikas

Greece · 69 km

  • 83Viewyas Score
  • 228 kmFarthest ridge
  • 134Peaks in view
  • 2,609 mAltitude

See the guide

Kaiser's Throne

Greece · 83 km

  • 82Viewyas Score
  • 108 kmFarthest ridge
  • 30Peaks in view
  • 251 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Dajti

Albania · 120 km

  • 90Viewyas Score
  • 230 kmFarthest ridge
  • 181Peaks in view
  • 1,592 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3302452) · 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

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