Israel 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 92 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).
- 92 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 780 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 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Maywest10 min before the sea-level sunset68%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset86%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset88%
- Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset87%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset85%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Novwest8 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- 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 Zion.
Hill in Jerusalem
Mount Zion is a summit in Israel, 780 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 92 km away, looking south-east.
6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount of Olives (826 m), 2 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- IVE Campamentocampsite · 7.6 km · 7 within 10 km
- The Maurice M. Dwek Guest Houseplace to stay · 0.4 km · 254 within 10 km
- Giv`at H̱ananyanearest town · 0.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Giv`at H̱ananyaBooking.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
- 52other viewpoints within 5 kmWestern Wall Observation Point, תצפית יהודאי, מצפור תומר and 49 more
- 8named peaks within 5 kmהר הזיתים, הר ציון, הר הרצל and 5 more
- 5marked trails within 3 kmVia Crucis, שביל גולני, Jerusalem Trail and 2 more
- 15shelters and huts within 5 kmShalshelet Shelter, בית חם and 13 more
- 350car parks within 3 km
- 13visitor centres within 5 kmלשכת מידע בעיר העתיקה, Indie Travelers Center, PASSIA and 10 more
- 317restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmIVE Campamento, منزل ومشغل ابو خليل, חניון לילה הקסטל and 4 more
- 254places to stay within 10 kmThe Maurice M. Dwek Guest House, Cassia Hotel, بيت شباب البتراء الجديدة and 251 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Zion, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas132 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas6 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas6 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 Zion
Israel
- 71Viewyas Score
- 92 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 780 mAltitude
Arthur Rubinstein lookout
Israel · 9 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 163 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 821 mAltitude
Mount of Olives
Israel · 2 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 192 kmFarthest ridge
- 15Peaks in view
- 812 mAltitude
Mount Scopus
Israel · 3 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 193 kmFarthest ridge
- 21Peaks in view
- 829 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q332444) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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