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Nabro Volcano

You can see 249 km from here, looking south-west.

77Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°Long view

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.

77out 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 south-west
  • 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 1,852 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 6 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.

Sork Ale1,611 m · 23 km · southNabro Volcano2,218 m · 1.5 km · south-westMallahle1,875 m · 14 km · south-westMount Sarkali1,845 m · 22 km · south-westMount Alayta1,496 m · 135 km · south-westAfdera1,295 m · 98 km · 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 November to December.

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. Janwestsets on an open horizon70%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon71%
  3. Marwestsets on an open horizon60%
  4. Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset58%
  5. Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon38%
  7. Julwestsets on an open horizon27%
  8. Augwestsets on an open horizon30%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon37%
  10. Octwestsets on an open horizon64%
  11. Novwestsets on an open horizon76%
  12. Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon83%
  • 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

Nabro Volcano.

Mountain

Nabro Volcano is a summit in Eritrea, 1,852 m above the sea.

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

6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Nabro Volcano (2,218 m), 2 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from November to December.

Nabro Volcano Before 2011 Eruption
NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain

Get there and stay

  • Mekele Alula Aba Nega Airport (MQX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 235 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Nabro VolcanoGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Nabro VolcanoBooking.comSee prices Car hire in EritreaDiscover 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.

Nabro Volcano 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

    • other viewpoints within 5 km
    • named peaks 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
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay 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 Nabro Volcano, and what is near.

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

    Peakyas9 mountains within 25 km
    Nabro Volcano · this placeNabro Volcano2,218 m · 0.3 kmRamlo · 3.9 kmMallahle1,875 m · volcano · 12 kmDubbi Alto · 18 kmMount Sarkali1,845 m · 20 kmSork Ale1,611 m · 21 kmDubbi Basso · 22 kmAssairo · 22 km
    Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
    Nabro VolcanoBortle 1 · this placeDubbi VolcanoBortle 1 · 26 km

    Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

    Other viewpoints nearby.

    Nabro Volcano

    Eritrea

    • 77Viewyas Score
    • 249 kmFarthest ridge
    • 6Peaks in view
    • 1,852 mAltitude

    Hanish Islands

    Yemen · 121 km

    • 90Viewyas Score
    • 238 kmFarthest ridge
    • 8Peaks in view
    • 254 mAltitude

    See the guide

    Mousa Ali

    Eritrea · 126 km

    • 91Viewyas Score
    • 249 kmFarthest ridge
    • 19Peaks in view
    • 1,992 mAltitude

    See the guide

    Erta Ale

    Ethiopia · 115 km

    • 82Viewyas Score
    • 151 kmFarthest ridge
    • 16Peaks in view
    • 578 mAltitude

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q596806) · 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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