Mongolia canyon rim
Yolyn Am
You can see 127 km from here, looking north-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 127 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).
- 127 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 84%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2,398 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 in October.
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.
- Jansouth288 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Febwest16 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Aprwest38 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Maywest58 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Junwest76 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Julwest68 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest46 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Sepwest22 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Octwest14 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Novsouth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Decsouth264 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- 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
Yolyn Am.
Ravine in Mongolia
Yolyn Am is a canyon rim in Mongolia, 2,398 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 127 km away, looking north-east.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 84% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in October.
Get there and stay
- Мухар шивэртcampsite · 3.1 km · 7 within 10 km
- Mongolian ger campplace to stay · 7.5 km · 4 within 10 km
- Tsoohornearest town · 21 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in TsoohorBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Dalanzadgad Airport (DLZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 26 km in a straight line
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
- 8other viewpoints within 5 kmOvoo, Ёлын ам and 6 more
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmМухар шивэрт, Dungenee Camp, yolin museum and 4 more
- 4places to stay within 10 kmMongolian ger camp, Yoliin Ger camp, Erdenebileg ba Oyuna egch ger camp and 1 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 Yolyn Am, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 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.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q8054822) · 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 | Darkskyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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