Israel scenic viewpoint
Nimrod Lookout
You can see 122 km from here, looking south-east.
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 122 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).
- 122 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 90%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 20Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 536 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 20 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 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.
- Jansouth-west80 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Febsouth-west74 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Marwest68 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Aprwest60 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Maywest76 min before the sea-level sunset66%
- Junwest86 min before the sea-level sunset82%
- Julwest80 min before the sea-level sunset83%
- Augwest66 min before the sea-level sunset80%
- Sepwest66 min before the sea-level sunset78%
- Octwest72 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Novsouth-west78 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Decsouth-west84 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- 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
Nimrod Lookout.
Nimrod Lookout is a scenic viewpoint in Israel, 536 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 122 km away, looking south-east.
20 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hermon (2,814 m), 56 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 90% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- פארק עין זיתיםcampsite · 6.3 km · 7 within 10 km
- אחוזת המאיריplace to stay · 0.1 km · 77 within 10 km
- Rosh Pinnanearest town · 0.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Rosh PinnaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Uri Michaeli Haifa International Airport (HFA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 49 km in a straight lineCar hire at BEY airport (Beirut)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
- 31other viewpoints within 5 kmמצפור טום וסשה וייס, הר נועזים, מצפה נמרוד and 28 more
- 7named peaks within 5 kmהר שמחון, הר כנען, הר נועזים and 4 more
- 13marked trails within 3 kmשביל נחל ראש פינה, דרך נוף יער עמוקה, שביל נחל עכברה and 10 more
- 5shelters and huts within 5 km
- 50car parks within 3 km
- 34restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmפארק עין זיתים, חניון לילה שמורת טבע נחל עמוד, חניון לילה נחל עמוד תחתון and 4 more
- 77places to stay within 10 kmאחוזת המאירי, אל גיא אוני, חוויה בנוף and 74 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Nimrod Lookout, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas132 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas1 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.
Nimrod Lookout
Israel
- 73Viewyas Score
- 122 kmFarthest ridge
- 20Peaks in view
- 536 mAltitude
Mount Tabor
Israel · 34 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 153 kmFarthest ridge
- 68Peaks in view
- 561 mAltitude
Galit Overlook
Israel · 53 km
- 91Viewyas Score
- 160 kmFarthest ridge
- 48Peaks in view
- 381 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q25489823) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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