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Devil's Appendix

You can see 148 km from here, looking east.

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 148 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.

67out 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).

  • 148 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
  • 88%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 20Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 708 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 20 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.

  1. Jansouth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  2. Febsouth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  3. Marwest52 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  4. Aprwest62 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  5. Maywest74 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  6. Junnorth-west94 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  7. Julwest86 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  8. Augwest66 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  9. Sepwest58 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  10. Octsouth-west50 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  11. Novsouth-west44 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  12. Decsouth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  • 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

Devil's Appendix.

Waterfall in Gwynedd, Wales, UK

Devil's Appendix is a cliff in United Kingdom, 708 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 148 km away, looking east.

20 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Snowdon (1,085 m), 5 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 88% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from April to May.

Cwm Idwal and Llyn Idwal
Mick Knapton at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

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.

Devil's Appendix 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 kmTwll Du and 5 more
  • 32named peaks within 5 kmTryfan, Glyder Fawr, Glyder Fach and 29 more
  • 6marked trails within 3 kmWelsh Three Thousands, Llanberis Path, Llwybr Llechi Eryri and 3 more
  • 2shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 24car parks within 3 km
  • 2visitor centres within 5 kmHafod Eryri Summit Visitor Centre
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 25campsites within 10 kmPritchard's Campsite, Gwern Gof Uchaf Campsite, Gwern Gôf Isaf Campsite & Bunkhouses and 22 more
  • 79places to stay within 10 kmSnowdonia Mountain Lodge, Y Gwynedd, Dol a Fon and 76 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Devil's Appendix, and what is near.

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

Peakyas337 mountains within 25 km
Glyder Fawr1,001 m · 1.0 kmTryfan917 m · 2.6 kmCrib Goch923 m · 4.0 kmSnowdon Massif1,085 m · 4.5 kmCarnedd Ugain1,065 m · 4.7 kmCarnedd Dafydd1,044 m · 4.8 kmSnowdon1,085 m · 5.3 kmCarnedd Llewelyn1,062 m · 7.1 km
Lakeyas12 lakes within 15 km
Llyn Ogwen0.3 km² · 3.0 kmLlyn Peris0.3 km² · 4.8 kmLlyn Llydaw0.3 km² · 4.9 kmLlyn Padarn0.8 km² · 6.1 kmLlyn Gwynant0.4 km² · 6.8 kmLlyn Cwellyn0.8 km² · 8.6 kmLlyn Cowlyd0.9 km² · 9.2 kmLlyn Dinas0.2 km² · 9.3 km
Cascadyas13 waterfalls within 15 km
Devil's Appendix · this placeTwll Du · 0.1 kmRhaeadr y Benglog · 1.9 kmCeunant Mawr · 6.0 kmRhaeadr Bach · 11 kmAber Falls · 12 kmSwallow Falls · 13 kmFairy Falls · 14 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.

Devil's Kitchen..a tight spot for cooking - panoramio
bobbyclegg · CC BY 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Devil's Appendix

United Kingdom

  • 67Viewyas Score
  • 148 kmFarthest ridge
  • 20Peaks in view
  • 708 mAltitude

Snowdon

United Kingdom · 5 km

  • 84Viewyas Score
  • 213 kmFarthest ridge
  • 556Peaks in view
  • 1,051 mAltitude

See the guide

Clogwyn Du'r Arddu

United Kingdom · 5 km

  • 80Viewyas Score
  • 192 kmFarthest ridge
  • 83Peaks in view
  • 752 mAltitude

See the guide

Snowdonia

United Kingdom · 26 km

  • 75Viewyas Score
  • 177 kmFarthest ridge
  • 204Peaks in view
  • 604 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5242595) · 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

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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