Greece canyon rim
Vikos Gorge
You can see 34 km from here, looking north-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 34 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).
- 34 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 52%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 679 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 3 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.
- Jansouth292 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Febsouth268 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Marsouth-west218 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest178 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maywest56 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Junnorth-west46 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Julwest50 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Augwest132 min before the sea-level sunset71%
- Sepsouth-west194 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Octsouth-west240 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Novsouth284 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Decsouth274 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- 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
Vikos Gorge.
Canyon in Greece
Vikos Gorge is a canyon rim in Greece, 679 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 34 km away, looking north-west.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Nemërçkë (2,485 m), 37 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 52% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Camping RV Parkingcampsite · 8.2 km · 9 within 10 km
- Vikos Viewplace to stay · 3.8 km · 66 within 10 km
- Kalpákinearest town · 11 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KalpákiBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Ioannina King Pyrrhus National Airport (IOA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 27 km in a straight lineCar hire at IOA airport (Ioannina)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
- 29other viewpoints within 5 kmΘέση Μπελόη, Οξιά, Θέα Φαραγγιού and 26 more
- 14named peaks within 5 kmΑστράκα, Ψαροβότανο, Καλόγερος and 11 more
- 9marked trails within 3 kmΕθνικό μονοπάτι O3, Monodendri Oxia Trail, Monodendri Vikos Trail and 6 more
- 3shelters and huts within 5 km
- 4car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmΚεντρο Ενημέρωσης Εθνικού Πάρκου Β.Πίνδου and 3 more
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmCamping RV Parking and 8 more
- 66places to stay within 10 kmVikos View, Ηρω Δωματια, Astraka Guesthouse I and 63 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 Vikos Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas34 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas5 caves within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Vikos Gorge
Greece
- 21Viewyas Score
- 34 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 679 mAltitude
Smolikas
Greece · 24 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 228 kmFarthest ridge
- 134Peaks in view
- 2,609 mAltitude
Kaiser's Throne
Greece · 87 km
- 82Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 30Peaks in view
- 251 mAltitude
Mount Olympus
Greece · 138 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 82Peaks in view
- 2,871 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q15061872) · 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, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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