Switzerland canyon rim
Aare Gorge
You can see 21 km from here, looking west.
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 21 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).
- 21 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 73%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 35Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 778 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 35 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 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.
- Jansouth210 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Febsouth-west82 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest88 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest22 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Maynorth-west32 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Junnorth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Julnorth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest26 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest74 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Octsouth-west80 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west178 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Decsouth216 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
Aare Gorge.
Canyon in Switzerland
Aare Gorge is a canyon rim in Switzerland, 778 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 21 km away, looking west.
35 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Brienzer Rothorn (2,349 m), 15 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 73% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Camping Aareschluchtcampsite · 0.9 km · 11 within 10 km
- Familienhotel Touristplace to stay · 1.8 km · 66 within 10 km
- Meiringennearest town · 2.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MeiringenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Bern Airport (BRN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 59 km in a straight lineCar hire at BRN airport (Bern)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
- 19other viewpoints within 5 kmKaverne, Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty, Mühlefluh and 16 more
- 28named peaks within 5 kmGlogghüs, Planplatten, Chlys Engelhorn and 25 more
- 45cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmMeiringen, Reuti (Mägisalp), Mägisalp (Reuti) and 42 more
- 48marked trails within 3 kmÄppigen-Wylerli, Alpbachschlucht, Via Sbrinz and 45 more
- 6shelters and huts within 5 kmWartesaal and 5 more
- 104car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmHaslital Berner Oberland, Info Center Innertkirchen
- 32restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 11campsites within 10 kmCamping Aareschlucht, Grimselblick, Camping Grund and 8 more
- 66places to stay within 10 kmFamilienhotel Tourist, Hotel Hof und Post, Sherlock Holmes and 63 more
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 Aare Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas12 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.
Aare Gorge
Switzerland
- 36Viewyas Score
- 21 kmFarthest ridge
- 35Peaks in view
- 778 mAltitude
Titlis
Switzerland · 18 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,707Peaks in view
- 3,167 mAltitude
Schreckhorn
Switzerland · 16 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,630Peaks in view
- 3,919 mAltitude
Finsteraarhorn
Switzerland · 21 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,962Peaks in view
- 4,065 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q301191) · 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, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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