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Mount Afadja

You can see 153 km from here, looking south-west.

78Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°Long view

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 153 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.

78out 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).

  • 153 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
  • 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 8Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 793 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 8 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.

Mount Dzebobo876 m · 145 km · northLeklata907 m · 2.4 km · eastMount Agou986 m · 26 km · south-eastDadi Mountain570 m · 41 km · southMount Afadja885 m · 1.8 km · south-westAkwawa788 m · 128 km · south-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 December 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. Janwest2 min before the sea-level sunset75%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon59%
  3. Marwestsets on an open horizon39%
  4. Aprwestsets on an open horizon34%
  5. Maywestsets on an open horizon33%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon33%
  7. Julwestsets on an open horizon28%
  8. Augwestsets on an open horizon27%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon28%
  10. Octwestsets on an open horizon41%
  11. Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset64%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset77%
  • 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

Mount Afadja.

Mountain in Ghana

Mount Afadja is a summit in Ghana, 793 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 153 km away, looking south-west.

8 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Agou (986 m), 26 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from December to January.

Mountain Afadja
Blaq dynamite · 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 Mount AfadjaGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mount AfadjaBooking.comSee prices Car hire at LFW airport (Lomé)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.

Mount Afadja 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

  • 2named peaks within 5 kmMount Afadja, Mount Aduadu
  • 1visitor centres within 5 km
  • 22places to stay within 10 kmHome of Afadjato and Tagbo Falls, Tagbo Falls Lodge, Campement de Kloto and 19 more
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Mount Afadja, and what is near.

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

Peakyas26 mountains within 25 km
Mount Afadja · this placeMount Afadja885 m · 0.3 kmAduadu746 m · 0.6 kmLeklata907 m · 4.2 kmGbotsoko452 m · 6.3 kmMont Kloto · 7.6 kmWoliliga · 8.2 kmTongulo · 12 kmTokplolo · 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Forêt de Missahoé · 7.7 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount AgouBortle 2 · 27 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 km
Cascade de Kouma Tokpli · 5.1 kmKamalo Falls · 8.5 kmKpimé Waterfall · 8.9 kmWli waterfalls80 m · 10 kmYipka Waterfalls100 m · 10 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.

A trip to Mountain Afajato
Kwameghana(Bright Kwame Ayisi) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ascending Afadjato
Blaq dynamite · CC BY-SA 4.0
View from Mount Afadjato
Miya Adiv · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Afadja

Ghana

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 153 kmFarthest ridge
  • 8Peaks in view
  • 793 mAltitude

Mount Agou

Togo · 27 km

  • 84Viewyas Score
  • 164 kmFarthest ridge
  • 10Peaks in view
  • 983 mAltitude

See the guide

Mont Sokbaro

Benin · 273 km

  • 75Viewyas Score
  • 107 kmFarthest ridge
  • 23Peaks in view
  • 654 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q635179) · 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, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

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

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