Slovenia canyon rim
Vintgar Gorge
You can see 21 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 21 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).
- 21 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 80%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 38Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 731 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 38 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-west36 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Febwest28 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest34 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest30 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maywest46 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west54 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Julnorth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest38 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Sepwest40 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest30 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Novsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- 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
Vintgar Gorge.
Slot canyon in the municipalities of Bled, Gorje and Jesenice in Slovenia
Vintgar Gorge is a canyon rim in Slovenia, 731 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 21 km away, looking west.
38 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Triglav (2,864 m), 20 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 80% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Apr 19-May 26: Mo-Su 09:00-17:00; May 27-Jun 23: Mo-Su 08:00-18:00; Ju · ticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Camping Perun Lipcecampsite · 2.6 km · 17 within 10 km
- Turistična Kmetija "Pri Biscu"place to stay · 1.6 km · 190 within 10 km
- Zasipnearest town · 1.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ZasipBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Klagenfurt Airport (KLU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 34 km in a straight lineCar hire at KLU airport (Klagenfurt am Wörthersee)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
- 48other viewpoints within 5 kmMala Osojnica, Ajdna nad Potoki and 46 more
- 75named peaks within 5 kmOjstrica, Velika Osojnica, Hom and 72 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmStraža
- 13marked trails within 3 kmSlovenska geološka pot, Juliana Trail, Blejska Dobrava-Zg. Radovna-Mojstrana and 10 more
- 16shelters and huts within 5 kmMali vrh – vpisna knjiga, Bivak Stebrasta skala, Dolgo Brdo and 13 more
- 73car parks within 3 km
- 6visitor centres within 5 kmTuristično Društvo Bled, Infocenter Triglavska roža Bled, Soteska Vintgar and 3 more
- 38restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 17campsites within 10 kmCamping Perun Lipce, PZA Bled, Camping Bled and 14 more
- 190places to stay within 10 kmTuristična Kmetija "Pri Biscu", Kurej, Apartmaji Prešeren and 187 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 Vintgar Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas172 mountains within 25 km
Canyonyas3 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas3 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.
Vintgar Gorge
Slovenia
- 42Viewyas Score
- 21 kmFarthest ridge
- 38Peaks in view
- 731 mAltitude
Stol / Hochstuhl
Slovenia · 8 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,326Peaks in view
- 2,193 mAltitude
Triglav
Slovenia · 19 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,687Peaks in view
- 2,794 mAltitude
Pyramidenkogel Tower
Austria · 24 km
- 68Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 309Peaks in view
- 846 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q671860) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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