Israel cliff
Amram Columns
You can see 117 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 117 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).
- 117 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 86%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 451 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 6 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 June 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.
- Jansouth-west80 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Febsouth-west86 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Marwest88 min before the sea-level sunset70%
- Aprwest92 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Maywest96 min before the sea-level sunset77%
- Junwest98 min before the sea-level sunset93%
- Julwest100 min before the sea-level sunset93%
- Augwest94 min before the sea-level sunset93%
- Sepwest88 min before the sea-level sunset91%
- Octwest84 min before the sea-level sunset82%
- Novsouth-west82 min before the sea-level sunset73%
- Decsouth-west78 min before the sea-level sunset70%
- 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
Amram Columns.
Cliff in Israel
Amram Columns is a cliff in Israel, 451 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 117 km away, looking south.
6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Jabal al-Lawz (2,580 m), 117 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 86% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- חניון לילה גבעת יוכבדcampsite · 1.2 km · 12 within 10 km
- איילות אירוח בקיבוץplace to stay · 8.6 km · 7 within 10 km
- Be’er Oranearest town · 8.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Be’er OraBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- King Hussein International Airport (AQJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 9 km in a straight lineCar hire at AQJ airport (Aqaba)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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmתצפית לעמק הנעלם, מצפה עמרם and 8 more
- 11named peaks within 5 kmהר עוזיהו, הר שחורת, הר אמיר and 8 more
- 18marked trails within 3 kmשביל ישראל, שביל נחל צפונות and 16 more
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 kmחניון לילה גבעת יוכבד, חניון לילה שחורת, חניון לילה קניון שחורת מערבי and 9 more
- 7places to stay within 10 kmאיילות אירוח בקיבוץ, פתאל and 5 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Amram Columns, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas33 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
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.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Amram Columns
Israel
- 67Viewyas Score
- 117 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 451 mAltitude
Jabal Umm ad Dami
Jordan · 61 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 181 kmFarthest ridge
- 7Peaks in view
- 1,800 mAltitude
Solomon's Pillars
Israel · 13 km
- 63Viewyas Score
- 92 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 308 mAltitude
Coloured Canyon
Egypt · 65 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 88 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 518 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q26764571) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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