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Georgia Georgia canyon rim

Pankisi Gorge

You can see 30 km from here, looking north-east.

41Viewyas 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 30 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.

41out 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).

  • 30 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 91%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 583 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 2 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.

Didgverdi3,334 m · 22 km · north-eastOrtsveri2,988 m · 20 km · north-east

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 August to November.

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. Jansouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  2. Febwest18 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  3. Marwest24 min before the sea-level sunset16%
  4. Aprwest38 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  5. Maywest42 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  6. Junnorth-west46 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  7. Julnorth-west44 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  8. Augwest38 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  9. Sepwest30 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  10. Octwest18 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  11. Novsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  12. Decsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  • 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

Pankisi Gorge.

Gorge in Georgia

Pankisi Gorge is a canyon rim in Georgia, 583 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 30 km away, looking north-east.

2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Didgverdi (3,334 m), 22 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 91% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from August to November.

Pankisi Gorge and Alazani Plain as seen from Tbatani
Aleksey Muhranoff · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Pankisi GorgeGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Pankisi GorgeBooking.comSee prices Car hire at TBS airport (Tbilisi)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.

Pankisi 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

  • 2named peaks within 5 kmდიდ-ასკილიანი, გორისთავი
  • 1shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 km
  • 9places to stay within 10 kmMelissa Guest House, Leyla's Guesthouse, Nazy’s Guesthouse and 6 more
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • car parks 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 Pankisi Gorge, and what is near.

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

Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Khemaghali1,483 m · 17 kmStori1,726 m · 18 kmTbatana2,300 m · 20 kmOrtsveri2,988 m · 20 kmLartusho · 21 kmChiauri2,018 m · 22 kmDidgverdi3,334 m · 22 kmGora Satibe · 23 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Pankisi GorgeBortle 2 · this place
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Pankisi Gorge · this placePankisi Gorge · 3.0 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Ilto43 km · 6.5 m³/s

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.

Pankisi Valley, Georgia
Aleksey Muhranoff · CC BY-SA 3.0
Khadori Waterfall
Yasuhiro Kojima · CC BY-SA 4.0
A guidepost in Duisi, Pankisi Valley
Ivan Ruggiero · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Pankisi Gorge

Georgia

  • 41Viewyas Score
  • 30 kmFarthest ridge
  • 2Peaks in view
  • 583 mAltitude

Mount Kazbek

Russia · 89 km

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 64Peaks in view
  • 4,991 mAltitude

See the guide

Shkhara

Georgia · 202 km

  • 81Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 111Peaks in view
  • 5,090 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Aragats

Armenia · 199 km

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 109Peaks in view
  • 4,052 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q627095) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Riveryas

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

The family

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

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