Australia scenic viewpoint
Echo Point
You can see 120 km from here, looking south-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 120 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).
- 120 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 0%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 10Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 967 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 10 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 May and from July to September.
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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novwest10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- 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
Echo Point.
Panoramic view in New South Wales, Australia
Echo Point is a scenic viewpoint in Australia, 967 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 120 km away, looking south-east.
10 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Kembla (534 m), 91 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in May and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Ruined Castle campsitecampsite · 3.6 km · 26 within 10 km
- Motel Echo Pointplace to stay · 0.4 km · 126 within 10 km
- Katoombanearest town · 1.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KatoombaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Bathurst Airport (BHS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 71 km in a straight lineCar hire at SYD airport (Sydney)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
- 132other viewpoints within 5 kmEcho Point Lookout, Eagle Hawk Lookout, Landslide Lookout and 129 more
- 8named peaks within 5 kmThe Ruined Castle, Castle Cliff Trig (986 m), Wimlah and 5 more
- 5cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmSkyway East Station, Cableway Bottom Station, Scenic Railway and 2 more
- 4marked trails within 3 kmSix Foot Track, Prince Henry Cliff Walk, Leura Cascades Fern Bower Circuit and 1 more
- 109shelters and huts within 5 kmDash's Cave and 108 more
- 225car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmKatoomba Civic Visitor Information Centre, Katoomba Tourist Information Centre
- 80restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 26campsites within 10 kmRuined Castle campsite, Old Ford Reserve, Blackheath Glen Reserve and 23 more
- 126places to stay within 10 kmMotel Echo Point, Lilianfels Hotel, Echoes Boutique Hotel & Restaurant and 123 more
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 Echo Point, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas122 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas7 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.
Echo Point
Australia
- 72Viewyas Score
- 120 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 967 mAltitude
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- 72Viewyas Score
- 72 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 66 mAltitude
Mount Kosciuszko
Australia · 356 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 23Peaks in view
- 2,221 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2470303) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas, 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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