Israel scenic viewpoint
Ochberg Lookout
You can see 115 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 115 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).
- 115 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 21%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 66Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 264 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 66 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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon52%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset68%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset86%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset88%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset87%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset85%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon72%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Decsouth-west2 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
Ochberg Lookout.
Ochberg Lookout is a scenic viewpoint in Israel, 264 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 115 km away, looking north-east.
The sea fills 21% of the horizon.
66 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hermon (2,814 m), 113 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
- חניון לילה הר גחרcampsite · 3.2 km · 5 within 10 km
- זהר בדשאplace to stay · 2.2 km · 6 within 10 km
- Ramat HaShofetnearest town · 1.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Ramat HaShofetBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Uri Michaeli Haifa International Airport (HFA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 24 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
- 18other viewpoints within 5 kmפינת רמי יפה, גבעת קיפוד, האיגלו and 15 more
- 12named peaks within 5 kmגבעת משעול, גבעת קיפוד, גבעת מועלם and 9 more
- 16marked trails within 3 kmשביל מגידו, דרך הפארק - רמת מנשה, סובב דליה and 13 more
- 16shelters and huts within 5 kmהאיגלו, 1, יד 2 and 13 more
- 36car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmמערת הפלמ"ח
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmחניון לילה הר גחר, חניון לילה גבעת קאת, חניון אלת הטל and 2 more
- 6places to stay within 10 kmזהר בדשא, פרי התשוקה, בצל הפסיפלורה and 3 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 Ochberg Lookout, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas52 mountains within 25 km
Cavernyas7 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.
Ochberg Lookout
Israel
- 88Viewyas Score
- 115 kmFarthest ridge
- 66Peaks in view
- 264 mAltitude
Galit Overlook
Israel · 20 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 160 kmFarthest ridge
- 48Peaks in view
- 381 mAltitude
Mount Ebal
Palestine · 44 km
- 96Viewyas Score
- 200 kmFarthest ridge
- 92Peaks in view
- 937 mAltitude
Mount Gerizim
Palestine · 48 km
- 96Viewyas Score
- 204 kmFarthest ridge
- 55Peaks in view
- 876 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q25490599) · 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, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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