Greece canyon rim
Imbros Gorge
You can see 107 km from here, looking south.
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 107 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).
- 107 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 76%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 784 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
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 July to August.
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-west106 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Febsouth-west118 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Marwest128 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Aprwest136 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Maywest140 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Junwest142 min before the sea-level sunset76%
- Julwest142 min before the sea-level sunset86%
- Augwest138 min before the sea-level sunset84%
- Sepwest132 min before the sea-level sunset68%
- Octsouth-west122 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Novsouth-west110 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Decsouth-west102 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- 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
Imbros Gorge.
Canyon in Crete, Greece
Imbros Gorge is a canyon rim in Greece, 784 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 107 km away, looking south.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 76% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Wild camping possible in the whole gorge. No water (April 2026)campsite · 2.5 km · 12 within 10 km
- Tsapakisplace to stay · 0.9 km · 78 within 10 km
- Chóra Sfakíonnearest town · 5.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Chóra SfakíonBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Chania International Airport (CHQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 32 km in a straight lineCar hire at CHQ airport (Souda)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
- 7other viewpoints within 5 kmExit Imbros Gorge, Imbros gorge and 5 more
- 9named peaks within 5 kmΣκούτσιο, Σέλι, Κεφάλα and 6 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmEuropean Walking Route E4, Greece, Crete, Askyfou-Anopoli, Imbros-Trikoukia and 4 more
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 5car parks within 3 km
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 kmWild camping possible in the whole gorge. No water (April 2026), Nice camping spot. 2 tents. No water, Wild camping spots and 9 more
- 78places to stay within 10 kmTsapakis, Samaria, Hotel Alkyon and 75 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres 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 Imbros Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas114 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Canyonyas3 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 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.
Imbros Gorge
Greece
- 51Viewyas Score
- 107 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 784 mAltitude
Mount Ida
Greece · 55 km
- 92Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 9Peaks in view
- 2,438 mAltitude
Rouvas Municipal Unit
Greece · 71 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 98 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 654 mAltitude
Agia Eirini Gorge
Greece · 31 km
- 35Viewyas Score
- 5 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 455 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1415745) · 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, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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