Bulgaria canyon rim
Kresna Gorge
You can see 5 km from here, looking north.
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 5 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).
- 5 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 80%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 241 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-west78 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Febsouth-west78 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest88 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest98 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Maywest94 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junwest98 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Julwest96 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Augwest92 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Sepwest94 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Octsouth-west80 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Novsouth-west78 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Decsouth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
Kresna Gorge.
Ravine in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria
Kresna Gorge is a canyon rim in Bulgaria, 241 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 5 km away, looking north.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 80% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Еко селище „Дебели даб“place to stay · 3.0 km · 5 within 10 km
- Kresnanearest town · 3.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KresnaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sofia Airport (SOF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 105 km in a straight lineCar hire at SOF airport (Sofia)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
- 2named peaks within 5 kmМладенчова чука, Шопова тумба
- 2car parks within 3 km
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 km
- 5places to stay within 10 kmЕко селище „Дебели даб“, къща за гости Моника, Хотел Стримон ВВ Кресна and 2 more
- other viewpoints within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- shelters and huts 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 Kresna Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas26 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas3 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.
Kresna Gorge
Bulgaria
- 31Viewyas Score
- 5 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 241 mAltitude
Vihren
Bulgaria · 20 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 167Peaks in view
- 2,893 mAltitude
Musala
Bulgaria · 58 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 218Peaks in view
- 2,908 mAltitude
Vitosha
Bulgaria · 89 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 77Peaks in view
- 2,246 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3110967) · 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, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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