Australia canyon rim
Kings Canyon
You can see 18 km from here, looking south-west.
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 18 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).
- 18 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 614 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 June 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.
- Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset63%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset70%
- Maywest6 min before the sea-level sunset71%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset76%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset77%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset83%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset76%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Novwest6 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Decsouth-west4 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
Kings Canyon.
Part of the Watarrka National Park in Northern Territory, Australia
Kings Canyon is a canyon rim in Australia, 614 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 18 km away, looking south-west.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- Reedy Creek Campgroundcampsite · 4.9 km · 3 within 10 km
- Kings Canyon Resortplace to stay · 5.5 km · 23 within 10 km
- Ayers Rock Connellan Airport (AYQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 119 km in a straight lineCar hire at AYQ airport (Yulara)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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmWatarrka Lookout, Reedy Bluff, Garden of Eden and 7 more
- 3marked trails within 3 kmKings Creek Walk, Kings Canyon Rim Walk, Giles Track
- 5shelters and huts within 5 km
- 9car parks within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmReedy Creek Campground, Kings Canyon Resort
- 23places to stay within 10 kmKings Canyon Resort and 22 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Kings Canyon, 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
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 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.
Kings Canyon
Australia
- 49Viewyas Score
- 18 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 614 mAltitude
Kata Tjuta
Australia · 141 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 157 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 1,032 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1742132) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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