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Mount Tabor

You can see 153 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 153 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).

  • 153 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 4%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 68Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 561 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 June to September.

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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon45%
  3. Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset52%
  4. Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  5. Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon68%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon86%
  7. Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon88%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset87%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset85%
  10. Octwestsets on an open horizon72%
  11. Novwestsets on an open horizon60%
  12. Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon48%
  • 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 Tabor.

Mountain in northern Israel traditionally believed to be the scene of the Transfiguration of Jesus

Mount Tabor is a summit in Israel, 561 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 153 km away, looking south.

68 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hermon (2,814 m), 90 km away.

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

The skies are clearest from June to September.

Monte Tabor 099
Ori~ · Attribution

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.

Mount Tabor 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

  • 4other viewpoints within 5 kmמצפור הר תבור and 3 more
  • 3named peaks within 5 kmתל קשיון, הר דבורה, הר תבור
  • 16marked trails within 3 kmשביל ישראל, שביל הפסגה הר תבור, שביל גולני and 13 more
  • 20car parks within 3 km
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmדרך העץ, חניון לילה הר דבורה, ابو فراس الدهامشه and 2 more
  • 26places to stay within 10 kmבית ספר שדה אלון תבור, פנינת העמק, Abu Rabea's and 23 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Mount Tabor, and what is near.

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

Peakyas79 mountains within 25 km
Mount Tabor · this placeHar Jona573 m · 6.6 kmGivat HaMoreh515 m · 8.3 kmMount Precipice395 m · 8.9 kmHorns of Hattin326 m · volcano · 14 kmMount Arbel282 m · 18 kmMount Atzmon547 m · 19 kmMount Hazon584 m · 24 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Shemurat Alone Qeshet · 6.0 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.

2017 Fiat Tipo Sedan on Mt. Tabor, Israel
ES · CC BY-SA 4.0
An old mount thabor's oak in lower galilee
Avi1111 dr. avishai teicher · CC BY-SA 4.0
Monte Tabor 093
Ori~ · Attribution

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Tabor

Israel

  • 88Viewyas Score
  • 153 kmFarthest ridge
  • 68Peaks in view
  • 561 mAltitude

Meron

Israel · 35 km

  • 95Viewyas Score
  • 216 kmFarthest ridge
  • 81Peaks in view
  • 1,191 mAltitude

See the guide

Noach Kinarty Overlook

Israel · 13 km

  • 85Viewyas Score
  • 179 kmFarthest ridge
  • 38Peaks in view
  • 257 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Ebal

Palestine · 52 km

  • 96Viewyas Score
  • 200 kmFarthest ridge
  • 92Peaks in view
  • 937 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q193785) · 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, Forestyas

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

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