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Zilie Kalni

You can see 55 km from here, looking 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 55 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.

60out of 100

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).

  • 55 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
  • 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 44%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 78 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 May to June.

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.

  1. Jansouth-west58 min before the sea-level sunset11%
  2. Febsouth-west50 min before the sea-level sunset14%
  3. Marwest26 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  4. Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  5. Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  6. Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  7. Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  8. Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  9. Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  10. Octsouth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  11. Novsouth-west54 min before the sea-level sunset12%
  12. Decsouth-west66 min before the sea-level sunset12%
  • 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

Zilie Kalni.

Cliff in Dundaga Parish, Latvia

Zilie Kalni is a cliff in Latvia, 78 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 55 km away, looking east.

The sea fills 44% of the horizon.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from May to June.

Zilie Kalni seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

Get there and stay

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.

Zilie Kalni seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1named peaks within 5 kmDižkalns
  • 3campsites within 10 kmKalēji, Jūrmalnieki, Pītagi
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmPītagi
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • car parks within 3 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 Zilie Kalni, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Svētmeitu kambari · 9.3 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q22917660) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesCavernyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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