China canyon rim
Tiger Leaping Gorge
You can see 26 km from here, looking north-east.
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 26 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).
- 26 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 54%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,910 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 November to January.
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-west72 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Febsouth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Marwest98 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Aprwest114 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maywest122 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Junwest132 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Julwest128 min before the sea-level sunset6%
- Augwest116 min before the sea-level sunset11%
- Sepwest100 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- Octwest84 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Novsouth-west74 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Decsouth-west70 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- 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
Tiger Leaping Gorge.
River canyon in China
Tiger Leaping Gorge is a canyon rim in China, 1,910 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 26 km away, looking north-east.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 54% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from November to January.
Get there and stay
- 老谷牧场campsite · 9.6 km · 2 within 10 km
- 下一栈客栈place to stay · 1.2 km · 57 within 10 km
- Lijiang Sanyi International Airport (LJG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 62 km in a straight line
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
- 19other viewpoints within 5 km中虎跳石, Flag viewpoint and 17 more
- 2marked trails within 3 km虎跳峡徒步, 中虎跳徒步线
- 13shelters and huts within 5 km岩石庇护, 棚屋 and 11 more
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 km老谷牧场, 漫阳山海营地
- 57places to stay within 10 km下一栈客栈, 中途客栈, 张老师客栈 and 54 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- car parks within 3 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 Tiger Leaping Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Tiger Leaping Gorge
China
- 19Viewyas Score
- 26 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,910 mAltitude
Hkakabo Razi
Myanmar · 290 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 5,495 mAltitude
Mount Gongga
China · 313 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 7,433 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1460797) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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