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The Gap

You can see 16 km from here, looking north-east.

55Viewyas Score

CliffSea view360°

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 16 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.

55out 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).

  • 16 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 31%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 16 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 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.

  1. Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  2. Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  3. Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  4. Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  5. Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset48%
  6. Junnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  7. Julnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  8. Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  9. Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  10. Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset45%
  11. Novwest8 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  12. Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  • 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

The Gap.

Ocean cliff on the South head of Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia

The Gap is a cliff in Australia.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 16 km away, looking north-east.

The sea fills 31% of the horizon.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to September.

WatsonsBay0131
Adam.J.W.C. · 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 The GapGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near The GapBooking.comSee prices Car hire at SYD airport (Sydney)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

The Gap 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

  • 112other viewpoints within 5 kmBurragula Lookout and 111 more
  • 1named peaks within 5 kmMount Trefle
  • 4cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • 2marked trails within 3 kmHermitage Foreshore Walk, Bondi to Manly Walk
  • 112shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 62car parks within 3 km
  • 7visitor centres within 5 kmNorth Fort Tours, Luggage Store Visitor Centre, Tourist Information Office and 4 more
  • 48restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 307places to stay within 10 kmNoah's Backpackers, Harbour View Hotel, Oakes Hotel and 304 more
  • campsites within 10 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 The Gap, and what is near.

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

Peakyas26 mountains within 25 km
Manly Rock · 5.8 kmMount Steele · 8.7 kmBeacon Hill · 11 kmDavidson Park · 15 kmFoleys Hill · 18 kmBotany Cone · 23 kmConnell Hill · 23 kmHole-in-the-Wall · 24 km
Coastya60 beaches within 10 km
Gibsons Beach · 0.4 kmLady Martins Beach · 3.7 kmEdwards Beach · 4.0 kmShelly Beach · 4.9 kmCorner Beach · 5.2 kmBondi Beach · 5.4 kmNorth Curl Curl Beach · 8.6 kmCoogee Beach · 8.9 km
Forestyas3 forests and trees within 15 km
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney · 6.5 kmStony Range Flora Reserve · 9.5 kmJacaranda, University of Sydney · 10 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Towra Point Nature Reserve374 species · 21 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Sydney ObservatoryBortle 8 · 7.6 kmAustralian Astronomical ObservatoryBortle 8 · 14 kmGreen Point ObservatoryBortle 7 · 26 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Tipperary Falls · 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.

The Gap looking north
Ajayvius ( talk ) · Public domain
The Gap looking south
Ajayvius ( talk ) · Public domain
Watsons bay, New South Wales 2.1
Adam.J.W.C. · CC BY-SA 2.5

Other viewpoints nearby.

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  • —Peaks in view
  • 16 mAltitude

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  • 66 mAltitude

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Echo Point

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  • 10Peaks in view
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Mount Kosciuszko

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  • 79Viewyas Score
  • 183 kmFarthest ridge
  • 23Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q17004967) · 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, Coastya, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

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