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Samariá Gorge National Park

You can see 7 km from here, looking north.

28Viewyas 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 7 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.

28out 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).

  • 7 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 66%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 657 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 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.

  1. Jansouth-west172 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  2. Febsouth-west172 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  3. Marsouth-west184 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  4. Aprwest156 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  5. Maywest160 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  6. Junwest158 min before the sea-level sunset79%
  7. Julwest158 min before the sea-level sunset90%
  8. Augwest164 min before the sea-level sunset90%
  9. Sepsouth-west176 min before the sea-level sunset75%
  10. Octsouth-west182 min before the sea-level sunset57%
  11. Novsouth-west172 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  12. Decsouth-west168 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  • 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

Samariá Gorge National Park.

National park in Crete, Greece

Samariá Gorge National Park is a canyon rim in Greece, 657 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 7 km away, looking north.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 66% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Samaria2r
No machine-readable author provided. Pibwl assumed (based on copyright claims). · 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 Samariá Gorge National ParkGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Samariá Gorge National ParkBooking.comSee prices Car hire at CHQ airport (Souda)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.

Samariá Gorge National Park 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

  • 7other viewpoints within 5 km
  • 17named peaks within 5 kmΒολακιάς, Γινγιλος, Ζαχαροκέφαλα and 14 more
  • 3marked trails within 3 kmEuropean Walking Route E4, Greece, Crete, Samaria Gorge Trail, Papoures
  • 2shelters and huts within 5 kmPotamos Mitato
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmCamping Agia Roumeli and 8 more
  • 40places to stay within 10 kmΠάχνες, ΚΑΣΤΡΟ, ΛΙΒΙΚΟΝ and 37 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Samariá Gorge National Park, and what is near.

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

Peakyas113 mountains within 25 km
Pachnes2,453 m · 6.8 kmAmarandos1,155 m · 8.4 kmMalotira1,701 m · 10 kmFoundana1,025 m · 13 kmAnginares1,239 m · 13 kmLangada1,620 m · 16 kmKako Kastelli1,335 m · 16 kmKefali1,074 m · 19 km
Islandyasthe island
Crete8,336 km²
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Paralia Ayías Roúmelis · 4.7 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Ethnikos Drymos Samarias - Farangi Trypitis - Psilafi - Koustogerako · 4.1 kmAgia lake176 species · 23 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Agia Eirini GorgeBortle 2 · 12 km
Canyonyas5 canyons within 20 km
Samariá Gorge National Park · this placeSamariá Gorge National Park · 2.7 kmElygias Gorge · 6.3 kmTripiti Canyon · 8.7 kmAgia Eirini Gorge · 13 kmImbros Gorge · 19 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Gourgouthakas · 13 km

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.

Walkers in the Samariá Gorge - 2022-07-25
Bretwa · CC BY-SA 4.0
Entry Samaria gorge
Joehawkins · CC BY-SA 4.0
Gorge of Samaria Biosphere Reserve, Crete, Greece (2)
Sebastian Mierzwa · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Samariá Gorge National Park

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  • 657 mAltitude

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  • 9Peaks in view
  • 2,438 mAltitude

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Imbros Gorge

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  • 51Viewyas Score
  • 107 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 784 mAltitude

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Rouvas Municipal Unit

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  • 65Viewyas Score
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  • 3Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1128366) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas

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.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit