Israel canyon rim
Ein Avdat
You can see 89 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 89 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).
- 89 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 507 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 3 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 June 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-west14 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Febwest14 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Maywest6 min before the sea-level sunset68%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset88%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset90%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset89%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset86%
- Octwest14 min before the sea-level sunset74%
- Novsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- 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
Ein Avdat.
Geographical object
Ein Avdat is a canyon rim in Israel, 507 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 89 km away, looking east.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hor (4,780 m), 83 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- חאן השיירותcampsite · 1.5 km · 16 within 10 km
- בי"ס שדה 'שדה בוקר'place to stay · 3.1 km · 7 within 10 km
- Midreshet Ben-Gurionnearest town · 3.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Midreshet Ben-GurionBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- El Arish International Airport (AAC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 93 km in a straight lineCar hire at ETM airport (Eilat)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
- 19other viewpoints within 5 kmהר ערקוב, מפל פרסה, מפל עין מעריף and 16 more
- 4named peaks within 5 kmמחיה, הר רתמים, הר ערקוב and 1 more
- 25marked trails within 3 kmבורות רמליה, נחל קרקש and 23 more
- 12car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmמרכז צפרות רמת הנגב
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 16campsites within 10 kmחאן השיירות, חוות נחל חוורים, יאללה קמפ and 13 more
- 7places to stay within 10 kmבי"ס שדה 'שדה בוקר', שרמנ׳ס, GavanRomi Desert Home and 4 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts 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 Ein Avdat, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas25 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Ein Avdat
Israel
- 68Viewyas Score
- 89 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 507 mAltitude
Assaf Siboni lookout
Israel · 79 km
- 85Viewyas Score
- 101 kmFarthest ridge
- 54Peaks in view
- 120 mAltitude
Arthur Rubinstein lookout
Israel · 108 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 163 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 821 mAltitude
Mount of Olives
Israel · 115 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 192 kmFarthest ridge
- 15Peaks in view
- 812 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1339871) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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