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Korab

You can see 246 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 246 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.

80out 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).

  • 246 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 5%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 299Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 2,709 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.

  1. Jansouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  2. Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  3. Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  4. Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  5. Maynorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon39%
  7. Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset49%
  8. Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset52%
  9. Sepwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  10. Octwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  11. Novsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  12. Decsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  • 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

Korab.

Mountain in North Macedonia and Albania

Korab is a summit in Albania, 2,709 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 246 km away, looking east.

The sea fills 5% of the horizon.

299 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Jezercë (2,694 m), 94 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Velky Korab 2011
Pavouk · 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.

Korab 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 kmГолем Кораб and 5 more
  • 21named peaks within 5 kmБоази, Голем Кораб, Maja e Gurit të Kuq and 18 more
  • 5marked trails within 3 kmStrezimir-Golem Korab, Mount Korab (9), Mount Korab (9/1) and 2 more
  • 9campsites within 10 kmKorabi Mountain Camping and 8 more
  • 5places to stay within 10 kmHotel Restaurant Korabi, Hotel Radomire, Bujtina Musaj Cajë and 2 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Korab, and what is near.

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

Peakyas104 mountains within 25 km
Korab · this placeKorab2,764 m · 0.1 kmSmall Korab2,683 m · 0.1 kmMali Korab2,524 m · 2.5 kmMali i Gramës2,345 m · 8.0 kmDeshat2,375 m · 17 kmSmall Vraca2,536 m · 19 kmBig Vraca2,582 m · 21 kmVelika Rudoka2,658 m · 24 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.

Korab 02
Don macedone · CC BY-SA 3.0
Korab 04
Don macedone · CC BY-SA 3.0
Korab 10
Anunnakey · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Korab

Albania

  • 80Viewyas Score
  • 246 kmFarthest ridge
  • 299Peaks in view
  • 2,709 mAltitude

Mount Dajti

Albania · 70 km

  • 90Viewyas Score
  • 230 kmFarthest ridge
  • 181Peaks in view
  • 1,592 mAltitude

See the guide

Ljuboten

Kosovo · 66 km

  • 80Viewyas Score
  • 219 kmFarthest ridge
  • 388Peaks in view
  • 2,476 mAltitude

See the guide

Jakupica

North Macedonia · 72 km

  • 81Viewyas Score
  • 239 kmFarthest ridge
  • 284Peaks in view
  • 2,522 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q912579) · 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, 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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