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Byrsa

You can see 109 km from here, looking south-west.

78Viewyas Score

SummitSunsetSea view360°Long view

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 109 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.

78out of 100

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).

  • 109 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 12%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 9Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 58 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 9 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.

Jabal Douela235 m · 23 km · eastDjebel Hammamet320 m · 52 km · south-eastJebel Boukornine576 m · 18 km · southDjebel Ressas795 m · 28 km · southDjebel Zaghouan1,295 m · 59 km · southDjebel Bargou1,266 m · 109 km · south-westJebel Gorra (Beja)930 m · 118 km · westJebel Ichkeul511 m · 67 km · north-west

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.

  1. Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  2. Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  3. Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  4. Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  5. Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  6. Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset69%
  7. Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset79%
  8. Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset76%
  9. Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset55%
  10. Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  11. Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  12. Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  • 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

Byrsa.

Hill in Tunisia

Byrsa is a summit in Tunisia, 58 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 109 km away, looking south-west.

The sea fills 12% of the horizon.

9 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Jebel Boukornine (576 m), 18 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Carthage Byrsa 2
Noomen9 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for ByrsaGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near ByrsaBooking.comSee prices Car hire at TUN airport (Tunis)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Byrsa seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 6other viewpoints within 5 km
  • 3shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 125car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmمعلومات سياحية
  • 144restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 95places to stay within 10 kmفيلا ديدون, 37, منزلي and 92 more
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 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 Byrsa, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas23 mountains within 25 km
Byrsa · this placeByrsa · 0.1 kmJebel el Ayari · 16 kmJebel Boukornine576 m · 18 kmEd Dourat · 22 kmEl Arka · 22 kmJebel Bou Goufda · 22 kmJabal Douela235 m · 23 kmHamada Majet · 23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Sebkha Ariana34 km² · 12 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Botanical garden of Tunis · 12 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Lake of Tunis142 species · 7.7 kmSebkha Séjoumi153 species · 18 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Maison punique byrsa
Pradigue · CC BY-SA 3.0
Byrsa roman foundations
damian entwistle · CC BY-SA 2.0
Byrsa
Dave Minogue · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Byrsa

Tunisia

  • 78Viewyas Score
  • 109 kmFarthest ridge
  • 9Peaks in view
  • 58 mAltitude

Jebel ech Chambi

Tunisia · 235 km

  • 82Viewyas Score
  • 161 kmFarthest ridge
  • 11Peaks in view
  • 1,532 mAltitude

See the guide

Ta' Dmejrek

Malta · 381 km

  • 92Viewyas Score
  • 219 kmFarthest ridge
  • 12Peaks in view
  • 249 mAltitude

See the guide

Dingli Cliffs

Malta · 380 km

  • 64Viewyas Score
  • 58 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 230 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1018648) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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