Bulgaria canyon rim
Buynovsko Gorge
You can see 8 km from here, looking north.
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 8 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).
- 8 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 75%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,085 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 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-west64 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Febsouth-west62 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest50 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest88 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Maywest114 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Junwest122 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Julwest120 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Augwest100 min before the sea-level sunset63%
- Sepwest64 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Octwest60 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novsouth-west60 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Decsouth-west66 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- 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
Buynovsko Gorge.
Gorge in Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria
Buynovsko Gorge is a canyon rim in Bulgaria, 1,085 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 8 km away, looking north.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 75% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Charmplace to stay · 2.2 km · 39 within 10 km
- Gyovrennearest town · 3.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in GyovrenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Plovdiv International Airport (PDV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 63 km in a straight lineCar hire at PDV airport (Plovdiv)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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmОрлово око, Наблюдателна вишка, Орфеева сълза and 10 more
- 14named peaks within 5 kmБезимен, Дур Дага, Джумабаши and 11 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmЯгодинска пещера – х. Триградски скали – х.Чаирски езера – х. Ледницата, European long distance path E8 - part Bulgaria, Дяволска екопътека - голям кръг and 4 more
- 15shelters and huts within 5 kmЗаслон and 14 more
- 8car parks within 3 km
- 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 39places to stay within 10 kmCharm, Хижа Тешел, Бистро Вилата and 36 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- campsites within 10 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 Buynovsko Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls 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.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Buynovsko Gorge
Bulgaria
- 29Viewyas Score
- 8 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,085 mAltitude
Vihren
Bulgaria · 79 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 167Peaks in view
- 2,893 mAltitude
Musala
Bulgaria · 86 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 218Peaks in view
- 2,908 mAltitude
Botev Peak
Bulgaria · 128 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 238 kmFarthest ridge
- 98Peaks in view
- 2,373 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q12273992) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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