Bulgaria summit
Vihren
You can see 246 km from here, looking west.
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 246 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).
- 246 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 167Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,893 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 167 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 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.
- Jansouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon29%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon32%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon31%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon42%
- Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon46%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Novsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
Vihren.
Highest point of Pirin mountain
Vihren is a summit in Bulgaria, 2,893 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 246 km away, looking west.
167 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Musala (2,925 m), 48 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Бивакcampsite · 1.5 km · 6 within 10 km
- з. Спано поле (Shelter Spano Pole)place to stay · 6.1 km · 161 within 10 km
- Banskonearest town · 11 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BanskoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sofia Airport (SOF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 103 km in a straight lineCar hire at SOF airport (Sofia)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
- 4other viewpoints within 5 kmВихрен and 3 more
- 37named peaks within 5 kmВихрен, Възела, Дончови караули 4 and 34 more
- 15cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 8marked trails within 3 kmх. Вихрен - х. Демяница, Банско - х. Яне Сандански, х. Вихрен - х. Синаница and 5 more
- 3shelters and huts within 5 kmз.Казана, заслон Кончето
- 7car parks within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmБивак, Wild camp, Between the Mountains and 3 more
- 161places to stay within 10 kmз. Спано поле (Shelter Spano Pole), хижа Загаза, Хотел "Сънрайз Парк енд СПА" and 158 more
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés 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 Vihren, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas33 mountains within 25 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 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.
Vihren
Bulgaria
- 79Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 167Peaks in view
- 2,893 mAltitude
Musala
Bulgaria · 48 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 218Peaks in view
- 2,908 mAltitude
Vitosha
Bulgaria · 90 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 77Peaks in view
- 2,246 mAltitude
Jakupica
North Macedonia · 166 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 239 kmFarthest ridge
- 284Peaks in view
- 2,522 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1140684) · 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, Forestyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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