Palestine summit
Mount Gerizim
You can see 204 km from here, looking north.
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 204 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).
- 204 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 25%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 55Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 876 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 55 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 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-westsets on an open horizon43%
- Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon52%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon56%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon68%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset86%
- Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset88%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon87%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon85%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon60%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon48%
- 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 Gerizim.
Mountain in Judea and Samaria Area, Palestine
Mount Gerizim is a summit in Palestine, 876 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 204 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 25% of the horizon.
55 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hermon (2,814 m), 144 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- ابو الوفا. منزلcampsite · 1.3 km · 6 within 10 km
- بيت الضيافة الفلسطينيplace to stay · 0.9 km · 93 within 10 km
- Kafr Qallīlnearest town · 1.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Kafr QallīlBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 42 km in a straight lineCar hire at TLV airport (Tel Aviv)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 kmJoseph Lookout Point, תצפית מהר גריזים, غرفة تجارة وصناعة نابلس and 7 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmהר עיבל, הר גריזים
- 4shelters and huts within 5 kmمنزل محمد رفعت خلفة and 3 more
- 15car parks within 3 km
- 61restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmابو الوفا. منزل, البيت, آلِ هارون and 3 more
- 93places to stay within 10 kmبيت الضيافة الفلسطيني, Hotel Crestal motel كريستال موتيل, Al Istiklal and 90 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails 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 Mount Gerizim, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas136 mountains within 25 km
Cavernyas2 caves 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.
Mount Gerizim
Palestine
- 96Viewyas Score
- 204 kmFarthest ridge
- 55Peaks in view
- 876 mAltitude
Mount Ebal
Palestine · 4 km
- 96Viewyas Score
- 200 kmFarthest ridge
- 92Peaks in view
- 937 mAltitude
Yehonatan Deutsch Lookout
Israel · 34 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 168 kmFarthest ridge
- 68Peaks in view
- 455 mAltitude
Dov and Eran Shamir lookout
Israel · 33 km
- 85Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 47Peaks in view
- 412 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1288751) · 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, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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