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Mount Shahdagh

You can see 249 km from here, looking north.

88Viewyas Score

SummitSunsetSea view360°Long viewMany peaks

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.

88out 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).

  • 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 31%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 26Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 4,242 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 26 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.

Tufandağ4,191 m · 45 km · south-eastQaradağ3,623 m · 30 km · south-eastGora Asad3,471 m · 31 km · south-eastXınalıq Dağı3,713 m · 18 km · south-eastMount Bazardüzü4,466 m · 13 km · south-westCharundag4,019 m · 24 km · westMalkamud3,855 m · 32 km · westGora Tiklalibash3,506 m · 42 km · westGora Chkhoturmas3,561 m · 59 km · westGora Seytyurt3,588 m · 63 km · westYarudağ4,116 m · 6.6 km · westShalbuzdag4,142 m · 18 km · westGora Akhvay3,481 m · 83 km · north-westTinovroso3,367 m · 148 km · north-westGuton3,572 m · 123 km · north-westMount Dyultydag4,127 m · 118 km · north-westSamursky khrebet3,849 m · 43 km · north-west

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 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon28%
  3. Marwestsets on an open horizon26%
  4. Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  5. Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon32%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon39%
  7. Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  8. Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon38%
  10. Octwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  11. Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  • 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 Shahdagh.

Mountain in Azerbaijan

Mount Shahdagh is a summit in Azerbaijan, 4,242 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking north.

The sea fills 31% of the horizon.

26 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Bazardüzü (4,466 m), 13 km away.

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

The skies are clearest from June to August.

Şahdağ Mountain, Qusar, 2013
Murad Ahmadzade · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Mount ShahdaghGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mount ShahdaghBooking.comSee prices Car hire at GBB airport (Gabala)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Mount Shahdagh 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

  • 2named peaks within 5 kmŞahdağ, İlham zirvəsi
  • 3campsites within 10 kmCamp 1, Camping zone, Camp 2
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmSuvar Resort
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 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 Mount Shahdagh, and what is near.

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

Peakyas51 mountains within 25 km
Mount Shahdagh · this placeMount Shahdagh4,243 m · 0.3 kmYarudağ4,116 m · 6.4 kmRepublic (peek)3,740 m · 8.4 kmMount Bazardüzü4,466 m · 14 kmGora Neser3,797 m · 18 kmShalbuzdag4,142 m · 18 kmRagdan4,020 m · 23 kmCharundag4,019 m · 24 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount ShahdaghBortle 2 · this placeMount BazardüzüBortle 2 · 14 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.

Shakhdag
Kupr31 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Shahdag - Shahdag8390
lumoplank · CC0
Az girl in Mount Shahdagh e-citizen
Moonsun1981 · Attribution

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Shahdagh

Azerbaijan

  • 88Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 26Peaks in view
  • 4,242 mAltitude

Mount Bazardüzü

Azerbaijan · 14 km

  • 88Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 47Peaks in view
  • 4,452 mAltitude

See the guide

Porak

Azerbaijan · 234 km

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 229 kmFarthest ridge
  • 77Peaks in view
  • 3,061 mAltitude

See the guide

Baku Ferris Wheel

Azerbaijan · 185 km

  • 54Viewyas Score
  • 24 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • -28 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q260554) · 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

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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