Kazakhstan observation tower
Bayterek
You can see 63 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 63 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).
- 63 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 348 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 and from August 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- 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
Bayterek.
Monument in Astana, Kazachstan
Bayterek is an observation tower in Kazakhstan, 348 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 63 km away, looking east.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from May to June and from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Шағынplace to stay · 0.5 km · 149 within 10 km
- Astananearest town · 5.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AstanaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport (NQZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at NQZ airport (Astana)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
- 1other viewpoints within 5 km
- 66shelters and huts within 5 kmТёмная беседка, Беседка Ak Bylak and 64 more
- 566car parks within 3 km
- 226restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 km
- 149places to stay within 10 kmШағын, Jumbaktas, Manhattan Astana Hotel and 146 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 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 Bayterek, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 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.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q804210) · 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 | Lakeyas, Forestyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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