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Niagara Gorge

You can see 3 km from here, looking north-east.

23Viewyas Score

Canyon rim

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 3 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.

23out 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).

  • 3 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 73%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 100 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 July 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.

  1. Jansouth290 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  2. Febsouth260 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  3. Marsouth-west206 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  4. Aprwest180 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  5. Maywest172 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  6. Junwest152 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  7. Julwest162 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  8. Augwest176 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  9. Sepsouth-west190 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  10. Octsouth-west240 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  11. Novsouth276 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  12. Decsouth264 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  • 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

Niagara Gorge.

Gorge of the Niagara River on the boundary of Canada and the United States

Niagara Gorge is a canyon rim in United States, 100 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 3 km away, looking north-east.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 73% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to September.

Niagara Gorge at Niagara Glen Nature Reserve
Mhsheikholeslami · 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 Niagara GorgeGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Niagara GorgeBooking.comSee prices Car hire at IAG airport (Niagara Falls)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.

Niagara Gorge 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

  • 62other viewpoints within 5 kmSkylon Tower, Terrapin Point, lookout of falls and 59 more
  • 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmWhirlpool Aero Car, Falls Incline Railway, Hornblower Niagara Funicular and 3 more
  • 3marked trails within 3 kmBruce Trail - Niagara section, Olympic Torch Run Legacy Trail, Laura Secord Legacy Trail
  • 35shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 383car parks within 3 km
  • 6visitor centres within 5 kmNiagara Falls Welcome Center, Table Rock Welcome Centre, Ontario Travel Information and 3 more
  • 37restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmNiagara Falls KOA Holiday Campground, Scotts Tent & Trailer Park, Campark Resorts Camping and 4 more
  • 216places to stay within 10 kmSuper 8, HI Niagara Falls, The Falls Hotel and 213 more
  • named peaks 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 Niagara Gorge, 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
Sanitorium Hill · 12 kmPalatine Hill · 15 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Niagara Gorge · this placeNiagara Gorge · 2.6 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 km
American Falls34 m · 4.0 kmBridal Veil Falls · 4.2 kmNiagara Falls57 m · 4.5 kmHorseshoe Falls51 m · 4.9 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Niagara River53 km · 5.8 m³/sGananoque RiverSaint Pierre River

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.

Niagara Gorge at Niagara Glen
The Cosmonaut · CC BY-SA 2.5 ca
Niagara Gorge at Niagara Glen1
The Cosmonaut · CC BY-SA 2.5 ca
Niagara Gorge Trail
Wilson44691 · CC0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Niagara Gorge

United States

  • 23Viewyas Score
  • 3 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 100 mAltitude

Niagara SkyWheel

Canada · 3 km

  • 60Viewyas Score
  • 108 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 184 mAltitude

See the guide

Konica Minolta Tower Centre

Canada · 5 km

  • 60Viewyas Score
  • 108 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 200 mAltitude

See the guide

Skylon Tower

Canada · 4 km

  • 58Viewyas Score
  • 92 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 196 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3111018) · 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, Canyonyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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