Greece canyon rim
Rouvas Municipal Unit
You can see 98 km from here, looking south.
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 98 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).
- 98 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 89%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 11%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 654 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 3 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 August.
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-westsets on an open horizon28%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Maywest24 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Junnorth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset78%
- Julnorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset86%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset85%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset71%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon26%
- 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
Rouvas Municipal Unit.
Subdivision of Gortyna Municipality, Greece
Rouvas Municipal Unit is a canyon rim in Greece, 654 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 98 km away, looking south.
The sea fills 11% of the horizon.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Kedros (1,777 m), 29 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 89% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to August.
Get there and stay
- Flat, gravelcampsite · 4.7 km · 5 within 10 km
- Idiplace to stay · 2.1 km · 15 within 10 km
- Gérgerinearest town · 1.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in GérgeriBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport (HER)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 32 km in a straight lineCar hire at HER airport (Heraklion)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
- 4other viewpoints within 5 km
- 1named peaks within 5 kmΣαμάρι
- 3marked trails within 3 kmEuropean Walking Route E4, Greece, Crete, Agios Efthimios, 1a Monasty Vrondisi
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 16restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmFlat, gravel, Flat, grass, Flat place and 2 more
- 15places to stay within 10 kmIdi, HARIKLEIA RENT ROOMS, ΝΑΝΆ Διαμερίσματα and 12 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Rouvas Municipal Unit, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas66 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas5 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons 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.
Rouvas Municipal Unit
Greece
- 65Viewyas Score
- 98 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 654 mAltitude
Mount Ida
Greece · 18 km
- 92Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 9Peaks in view
- 2,438 mAltitude
Imbros Gorge
Greece · 71 km
- 51Viewyas Score
- 107 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 784 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3562866) · 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, Islandyas, 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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