United States canyon rim
Waimea Canyon State Park
You can see 115 km from here, looking south-east.
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 115 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).
- 115 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 33%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 900 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 June 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.
- Janwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon36%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon31%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maywest8 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon50%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon41%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon37%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon39%
- 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
Waimea Canyon State Park.
Protected area of Kauai County, Hawaii, United States
Waimea Canyon State Park is a canyon rim in United States, 900 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 115 km away, looking south-east.
The sea fills 33% of the horizon.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Wiliwili Campcampsite · 2.5 km · 13 within 10 km
- The Cabins at Kokee Parkplace to stay · 8.0 km · 1 within 10 km
- Kekaha-Waimeanearest town · 9.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Kekaha-WaimeaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Lihue Airport (LIH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 35 km in a straight lineCar hire at LIH airport (Lihue, Kauai)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
- 6other viewpoints within 5 kmWaimea Canyon Lookout, Great overview over Canyon, Lookout and 3 more
- 14named peaks within 5 kmKāhililoa, Ka'aha, Po'okaeha and 11 more
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 13campsites within 10 kmWiliwili Camp, Kaluahaulu, Hipalau and 10 more
- 1places to stay within 10 kmThe Cabins at Kokee Park
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- 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 Waimea Canyon State Park, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas117 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas1 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.
Waimea Canyon State Park
United States
- 71Viewyas Score
- 115 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 900 mAltitude
Aloha Tower
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- 84Viewyas Score
- 180 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Haleakalā
United States · 384 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 207 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 2,954 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q7960119) · 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, 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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