Montenegro / Albania summit
Zla Kolata
You can see 197 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 197 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).
- 197 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 231Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,476 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 231 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-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon28%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon28%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon28%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon39%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon49%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon38%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- 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
Zla Kolata.
Peak in the Rodi e Kollatës massif, Prokletije range, Dinaric Alps, Montenegro and Albania
Zla Kolata is a summit in Montenegro, 2,476 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 197 km away, looking east.
231 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Korab (2,764 m), 94 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Campingcampsite · 4.1 km · 49 within 10 km
- Vila Diniplace to stay · 3.1 km · 115 within 10 km
- Valbonënearest town · 3.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ValbonëBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Podgorica Airport / Podgorica Golubovci Airbase (TGD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 55 km in a straight lineCar hire at TGD airport (Podgorica)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
- 7other viewpoints within 5 km
- 28named peaks within 5 kmMaja e Rosit / Rosni vrh, Kunj i Kadis, Pukli krš and 25 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmPeaks of the Balkans, Zla Kolata, Dragobi-Valbonë and 4 more
- 5shelters and huts within 5 km
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 49campsites within 10 kmCamping, Kamping Imer Selimaj, Valbona Eco Camping and 46 more
- 115places to stay within 10 kmVila Dini, Guesthouse Arben Selimaj, Quku i Valbones Residenca and 112 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Zla Kolata, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas257 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Zla Kolata
Montenegro
- 79Viewyas Score
- 197 kmFarthest ridge
- 231Peaks in view
- 2,476 mAltitude
Jezercë
Albania · 8 km
- 85Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 395Peaks in view
- 2,653 mAltitude
Gjeravica
Kosovo · 21 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 401Peaks in view
- 2,630 mAltitude
Lovćen
Montenegro · 88 km
- 92Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 307Peaks in view
- 1,733 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2720697) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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