Pakistan scenic viewpoint
Daman-e-Koh
You can see 156 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 156 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).
- 156 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 92%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 4Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 745 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 4 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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Marwest22 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Aprwest34 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Maywest38 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Junwest50 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Julwest44 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Augwest38 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Sepwest24 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset75%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- 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
Daman-e-Koh.
Viewing point and hill top garden north of Islamabad, Pakistan
Daman-e-Koh is a scenic viewpoint in Pakistan, 745 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 156 km away, looking south-west.
4 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sunset Peak (4,745 m), 137 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 92% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in October.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: 24/7
- Fortalice Kosharplace to stay · 1.7 km · 314 within 10 km
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- Islamabad International Airport (ISB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 30 km in a straight lineCar hire in IslamabadDiscover 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
- 18other viewpoints within 5 kmDaman-e-Koh, Trail 3 hill top, Mian Amjad H#229, St32, G8-2, Tepo Market ID and 15 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmArgintine Park
- 1marked trails within 3 km
- 9shelters and huts within 5 km
- 61car parks within 3 km
- 130restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 314places to stay within 10 kmFortalice Koshar, Horizon, Hill View Hotel and 311 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 Daman-e-Koh, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Cascadyas1 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.
Daman-e-Koh
Pakistan
- 70Viewyas Score
- 156 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 745 mAltitude
Panjpeer Rocks
Pakistan · 43 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 1,630 mAltitude
Pindi Point
Pakistan · 34 km
- 59Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 1,850 mAltitude
Nanga Parbat
Pakistan · 218 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 68Peaks in view
- 8,065 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5211938) · 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, Lakeyas, 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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