Taiwan cliff
Chingshui Cliff
You can see 124 km from here, looking south-west.
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 124 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).
- 124 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 76%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 37%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 47Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 190 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 47 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 in October.
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-west68 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Febsouth-west82 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest104 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Aprwest128 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Maywest130 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Junwest142 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Julwest140 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest130 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwest116 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Octwest94 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Novsouth-west70 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- 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
Chingshui Cliff.
Coastal cliffs in Xiulin Township, Hualien County, Taiwan
Chingshui Cliff is a cliff in Taiwan, 190 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 124 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 37% of the horizon.
47 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sinkang Mountain (3,331 m), 116 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 76% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in October.
Get there and stay
- Monacampsite · 8.0 km · 4 within 10 km
- 椰果的家place to stay · 6.4 km · 14 within 10 km
- Xiulinnearest town · 13 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in XiulinBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Hualien Chiashan Airport (HUN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 23 km in a straight lineCar hire in TaipeiDiscover 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
- 11other viewpoints within 5 km觀景平台, 清水斷崖 and 9 more
- 4named peaks within 5 km清水大山, 右岸山, 金雁山 and 1 more
- 1marked trails within 3 km千里步道宜蘭鐵路
- 8shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmMona, 崇德 瑩農場, 聽海戶外休閒 and 1 more
- 14places to stay within 10 km椰果的家, 張家莊, 達道的家 and 11 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 Chingshui Cliff, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas76 mountains within 25 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.
Chingshui Cliff
Taiwan
- 66Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 47Peaks in view
- 190 mAltitude
Xueshan
Taiwan · 50 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 219Peaks in view
- 3,864 mAltitude
Yushan Main Peak
Taiwan · 112 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 217Peaks in view
- 3,910 mAltitude
Sky Dream
Taiwan · 102 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 197Peaks in view
- 248 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5101041) · 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, Islandyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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