United Kingdom cliff
Cliffs of Magho
You can see 121 km from here, looking 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 121 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).
- 121 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 8%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 22Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 304 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 22 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 April to May.
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-west28 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Febsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Augnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Novsouth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Decsouth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- 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
Cliffs of Magho.
Cliff in the United Kingdom
Cliffs of Magho is a cliff in United Kingdom, 304 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 121 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 8% of the horizon.
22 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Errigal (749 m), 64 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Edgewater Holiday Park & Marinacampsite · 12 km · 2 within 10 km
- Irvinestownnearest town · 18 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in IrvinestownBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Donegal Airport (CFN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 70 km in a straight lineCar hire at CFN airport (Donegal)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
- 5other viewpoints within 5 kmCliffs of Magho, Carrick Lough Viewpoint, Aghameelan Viewpoint and 2 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmLegg
- 4marked trails within 3 kmUlster Way, Blackslee Waterfall Walk, Lough Navar Lakes Walk and 1 more
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 9car parks within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmEdgewater Holiday Park & Marina
- 24places to stay within 10 km
- 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 Cliffs of Magho, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas32 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas10 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Cliffs of Magho
United Kingdom
- 71Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 22Peaks in view
- 304 mAltitude
Croagh Patrick
Ireland · 139 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 53Peaks in view
- 755 mAltitude
Belfast Wheel
United Kingdom · 128 km
- 63Viewyas Score
- 81 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 10 mAltitude
Wheel of Dublin
Ireland · 166 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 95 kmFarthest ridge
- 70Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5133099) · 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, Lakeyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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