Israel scenic viewpoint
Assaf Siboni lookout
You can see 101 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 101 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).
- 101 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 30%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 54Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 120 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 54 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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset69%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset70%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset70%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset68%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- 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
Assaf Siboni lookout.
Assaf Siboni lookout is a scenic viewpoint in Israel, 120 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 101 km away, looking north-east.
The sea fills 30% of the horizon.
54 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Abu Auda (105 m), 42 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- منزل الاستاذ عدنان رضوانcampsite · 6.5 km · 35 within 10 km
- ديوان عائلة الواديةplace to stay · 8.1 km · 411 within 10 km
- Mefallesimnearest town · 2.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MefallesimBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 63 km in a straight lineCar hire at TLV airport (Tel Aviv)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
- 8other viewpoints within 5 kmמצפור נביה מרעי, תצפית יעקב גברי, תצפית סופפו and 5 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmגבעת נזמית
- 1marked trails within 3 kmשביל גולני
- 11shelters and huts within 5 km
- 50car parks within 3 km
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 35campsites within 10 kmمنزل الاستاذ عدنان رضوان, على محمد ابو بنات 136, عبد الله دردونه 93 and 32 more
- 411places to stay within 10 kmديوان عائلة الوادية, أبوعادل الوادية, منزل ال حنيف and 408 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres 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 Assaf Siboni lookout, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 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.
Assaf Siboni lookout
Israel
- 85Viewyas Score
- 101 kmFarthest ridge
- 54Peaks in view
- 120 mAltitude
Arthur Rubinstein lookout
Israel · 60 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 163 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 821 mAltitude
Mount of Olives
Israel · 71 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 192 kmFarthest ridge
- 15Peaks in view
- 812 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q100253448) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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