Kazakhstan scenic viewpoint
Kok Tobe
You can see 192 km from here, looking north-east.
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 192 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).
- 192 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,108 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 6 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.
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 August 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-west16 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Decsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- 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
Kok Tobe.
Mountain in Kazakhstan
Kok Tobe is a scenic viewpoint in Kazakhstan, 1,108 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 192 km away, looking north-east.
6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Talgar peak (4,979 m), 32 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Вертолёткаcampsite · 6.8 km · 12 within 10 km
- Almaty Backpackersplace to stay · 1.1 km · 219 within 10 km
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- Almaty International Airport (ALA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 km in a straight lineCar hire at ALA airport (Almaty)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
- 23other viewpoints within 5 kmАлматы қаласының көрінісі, Замартас, 1 000 and 20 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmКөк-Төбе
- 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmЖоғарғы аспалы жол бекеті, Көк-төбеге апаратын аспалы жол, Сұңқар төменгі and 3 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmТропа здоровья
- 74shelters and huts within 5 km
- 467car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Information Center Visit Almaty, Паника, Visit Almaty and 2 more
- 383restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 kmВертолётка, "Тарелка" поляна, Ranch and 9 more
- 219places to stay within 10 kmAlmaty Backpackers, Hotel Iris, Хан and 216 more
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 Kok Tobe, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas17 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Kok Tobe
Kazakhstan
- 71Viewyas Score
- 192 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 1,108 mAltitude
Charyn Canyon
Kazakhstan · 172 km
- 55Viewyas Score
- 75 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,055 mAltitude
Boom Gorge
Kyrgyzstan · 120 km
- 22Viewyas Score
- 26 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,740 mAltitude
Khan Tengri
China · 285 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 13Peaks in view
- 7,020 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1795699) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, 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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