North Korea summit
Mount Kumgang
You can see 249 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 249 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).
- 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 29%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 96Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,605 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 96 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 January, from March to April and in October.
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-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon41%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon43%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon34%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon46%
- Novsouth-westsets on an open horizon42%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon42%
- 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
Mount Kumgang.
Mountain range in North Korea
Mount Kumgang is a summit in North Korea, 1,605 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 29% of the horizon.
96 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Seoraksan (1,708 m), 68 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in January, from March to April and in October.
Get there and stay
- 내금강휴계소place to stay · 6.3 km · 4 within 10 km
- Wonsan Kalma Airport (WOS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 78 km in a straight lineCar hire at GMP airport (Seoul)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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 km
- 3named peaks within 5 km금강산 비로봉, 세존봉, 금강산
- 1marked trails within 3 km구룡연산도
- 2car parks within 3 km
- 4places to stay within 10 km내금강휴계소, 금강산호텔, 외금강호텔 and 1 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- campsites within 10 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 Mount Kumgang, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas2 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.
Mount Kumgang
North Korea
- 89Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 96Peaks in view
- 1,605 mAltitude
Seoraksan
South Korea · 68 km
- 89Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 137Peaks in view
- 1,693 mAltitude
Daedong Sky Park
South Korea · 265 km
- 60Viewyas Score
- 58 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 113 mAltitude
Baekdu Mountain
China · 276 km
- 62Viewyas Score
- 117 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 1,460 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q495501) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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