Sri Lanka cliff
World's End
You can see 176 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 176 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).
- 176 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,110 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 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 February to March.
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.
- Janwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Maywest18 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Junnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Julwest16 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Novwest6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west6 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
World's End.
Sheer precipice with a 1050 m drop in the highlands of Sri Lanka
World's End is a cliff in Sri Lanka, 2,110 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 176 km away, looking south.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kirigalpoththa (2,395 m), 4 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from February to March.
Get there and stay
- Horton Plains Campsite 2campsite · 1.6 km · 5 within 10 km
- Nagrak Holiday Bungalowplace to stay · 2.3 km · 56 within 10 km
- Haputalenearest town · 18 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in HaputaleBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 66 km in a straight lineCar hire at CMB airport (Colombo)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 kmWorld's End (Plate 1), Mini World's End, World's End (Plate 2) and 3 more
- 5named peaks within 5 kmDikthalawa, Agrabopath, Gommolli Kanda and 2 more
- 2marked trails within 3 kmPekoe Trail - Stage 10 - Dayagama To Horton Plains, Pekoe Trail - Stage 11 - Horton Plains to Udaweriya
- 4car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmHorton Plains Visitor Center
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmHorton Plains Campsite 2, Horton Plains Campsite 3, Horton Plains Campsite 1 and 2 more
- 56places to stay within 10 kmNagrak Holiday Bungalow, Bambarakanda Holiday Resort, Ginihiriya Wildlife Bungalow and 53 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts 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 World's End, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas32 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Cascadyas6 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.
World's End
Sri Lanka
- 67Viewyas Score
- 176 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 2,110 mAltitude
Adam's Peak
Sri Lanka · 33 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 200 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 2,163 mAltitude
Pidurutalagala
Sri Lanka · 24 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 202 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 2,500 mAltitude
Arthur's Seat, Kandy
Sri Lanka · 59 km
- 51Viewyas Score
- 66 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 616 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q16903749) · 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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