Switzerland canyon rim
Viamala
You can see 22 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 22 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).
- 22 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 66%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 22Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,162 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 22 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 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.
- Jansouth-west116 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Febsouth-west128 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marsouth-west138 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest130 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Maywest136 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Junwest142 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Julwest138 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest132 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest136 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Octsouth-west134 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west120 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Decsouth-west108 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- 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
Viamala.
Gorge and pathway in Grisons, Switzerland
Viamala is a canyon rim in Switzerland, 1,162 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 22 km away, looking south.
22 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Piz Timun (3,209 m), 22 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 66% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Raniacampsite · 1.3 km · 13 within 10 km
- Juan Jionplace to stay · 3.1 km · 79 within 10 km
- Thusisnearest town · 4.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ThusisBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Lugano Airport (LUG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 84 km in a straight lineCar hire at ACH airport (St. Gallen)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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmFoto-Spot Viamala-Schlucht, Aussichtspunkt Crap Carschenna, Aussichtspunkt Känzeli Thusis and 7 more
- 12named peaks within 5 kmMuttner Höhi, Wiss-Chöpf, Stürvisser Tschuggen and 9 more
- 3cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 12marked trails within 3 kmRongellen-Viamala-Schlucht, Via Spluga, Thusis-Rongellen and 9 more
- 4shelters and huts within 5 km
- 20car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmGästeinformation Thusis
- 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 13campsites within 10 kmRania, Stellplatz Muntsulej Mathon, Stellplatz TCS Camping Thusis and 10 more
- 79places to stay within 10 kmJuan Jion, Weiss Kreuz, Gasthaus Alpina and 76 more
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 Viamala, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas356 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas16 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas4 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas1 caves 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.
Viamala
Switzerland
- 31Viewyas Score
- 22 kmFarthest ridge
- 22Peaks in view
- 1,162 mAltitude
Grauspitz
Switzerland · 45 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 204 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,254Peaks in view
- 2,493 mAltitude
Piz Bernina
Switzerland · 47 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 2,328Peaks in view
- 3,960 mAltitude
Drei Schwestern
Liechtenstein · 58 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 794Peaks in view
- 2,010 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q666865) · 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, Lakeyas, 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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