Israel scenic viewpoint
Ran Overlook
You can see 73 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 73 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).
- 73 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 88%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 20Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 285 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 20 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-west78 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Febsouth-west88 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Marwest94 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Aprwest96 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Maywest94 min before the sea-level sunset66%
- Junwest94 min before the sea-level sunset82%
- Julwest94 min before the sea-level sunset83%
- Augwest94 min before the sea-level sunset80%
- Sepwest96 min before the sea-level sunset78%
- Octsouth-west90 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Novsouth-west82 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Decsouth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- 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
Ran Overlook.
Ran Overlook is a scenic viewpoint in Israel, 285 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 73 km away, looking north.
20 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hermon (2,814 m), 42 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 88% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- חניון נחל קדש (תחתון)campsite · 1.6 km · 4 within 10 km
- אלומה בכפרplace to stay · 1.0 km · 39 within 10 km
- Yesud HaMa‘alanearest town · 6.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Yesud HaMa‘alaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Uri Michaeli Haifa International Airport (HFA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 59 km in a straight lineCar hire at BEY airport (Beirut)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
- 14other viewpoints within 5 kmמצפור עופות המים, מצפור העגורים, מצפור הפילבוקס and 11 more
- 5named peaks within 5 kmהר גרשום, קרן נפתלי, הר יחמור and 2 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmשביל ישראל, מעלה ישע, מצוק רמות נפתלי and 4 more
- 11car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmחניון נחל קדש (תחתון), חניון האלה, חניון נופש גשר להבות and 1 more
- 39places to stay within 10 kmאלומה בכפר, מלון מטיילים מלכיה, על הגבעה and 36 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts 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 Ran Overlook, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas164 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 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.
Ran Overlook
Israel
- 64Viewyas Score
- 73 kmFarthest ridge
- 20Peaks in view
- 285 mAltitude
Mount Tabor
Israel · 49 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 153 kmFarthest ridge
- 68Peaks in view
- 561 mAltitude
Galit Overlook
Israel · 63 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 160 kmFarthest ridge
- 48Peaks in view
- 381 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q16133284) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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