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Verdon Gorge

You can see 4 km from here, looking west.

21Viewyas 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 4 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.

21out 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).

  • 4 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
  • 64%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 753 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. Jansouth288 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  2. Febsouth328 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  3. Marwest52 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  4. Aprwest44 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  5. Maywest62 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  6. Junwest74 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  7. Julwest68 min before the sea-level sunset66%
  8. Augwest46 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  9. Sepwest48 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  10. Octsouth316 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  11. Novsouth274 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  12. Decsouth262 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  • 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

Verdon Gorge.

River canyon in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Verdon Gorge is a canyon rim in France, 753 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 4 km away, looking west.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 64% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Verdon Gorge 1
kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Verdon GorgeGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Verdon GorgeBooking.comSee prices Car hire at CEQ airport (Cannes)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.

Verdon Gorge 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

  • 38other viewpoints within 5 kmBalcon de la Mescla, Belvédère de la Gorge de Guègues, La Mescla and 35 more
  • 8named peaks within 5 kmSommet du Chastillon, Cime de Barbin, Collet Barris and 5 more
  • 4marked trails within 3 kmSentier de l'Imbut, Sentier Blanc-Martel and 2 more
  • 3shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 32car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmBureau d'Information Touristique de la Palud-sur-Verdon
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 13campsites within 10 kmBio Verdon, La Maison d’Adèle, Camping municipal le Grand Canyon and 10 more
  • 30places to stay within 10 kmGîte d'étape de la Ferme des Cavaliers, Chalet de la Maline, La Commanderie de Saint Maymes and 27 more
  • cable car and funicular stations 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 Verdon Gorge, and what is near.

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

Peakyas46 mountains within 25 km
Cime de Barbin1,561 m · 6.3 kmGrand Margès1,576 m · 7.1 kmMourre de Chanier1,930 m · 12 kmMont Chiran1,905 m · 15 kmMontagne de Vibres1,383 m · 18 kmCoulet de Calasse1,475 m · 20 kmMontagne de Teillon1,375 m · 22 kmmontagne de Lachens1,712 m · 24 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Verdon Gorge · this placeVerdon Gorge700 m · 0.3 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Baume · 9.4 kmGrottes troglodytiques de Villecroze · 19 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Artuby54 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.

Belvédère du Tilleul-Route des Crêtes-Gorges du Verdon
Tobi 87 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gorges Verdon Barrage Sainte Croix
Benh LIEU SONG · CC BY-SA 3.0
Verdon Gorge 5
kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Verdon Gorge

France

  • 21Viewyas Score
  • 4 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 753 mAltitude

Col d'Illoire

France · 9 km

  • 69Viewyas Score
  • 128 kmFarthest ridge
  • 70Peaks in view
  • 1,016 mAltitude

See the guide

Crête de Géruen

France · 56 km

  • 79Viewyas Score
  • 183 kmFarthest ridge
  • 231Peaks in view
  • 1,856 mAltitude

See the guide

Mont Agel

Monaco · 85 km

  • 86Viewyas Score
  • 246 kmFarthest ridge
  • 135Peaks in view
  • 1,128 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q687057) · 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, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas

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.

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