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Sulak Canyon

You can see 6 km from here, looking north-west.

22Viewyas Score

Canyon rim

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 6 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.

22out 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).

  • 6 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
  • 67%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 290 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 July 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-west112 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  2. Febsouth-west70 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  3. Marwest54 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  4. Aprwest78 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  5. Maywest64 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  6. Junnorth-west60 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  7. Julwest60 min before the sea-level sunset49%
  8. Augwest64 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  9. Sepwest64 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  10. Octwest66 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  11. Novsouth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  12. Decsouth-west124 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  • 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

Sulak Canyon.

Canyon in Dagestan, Russia

Sulak Canyon is a canyon rim in Russia, 290 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 6 km away, looking north-west.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 67% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to September.

Сулакский каньон
Sobolev Alexander · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Sulak CanyonGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Sulak CanyonBooking.comSee prices Car hire at TBS airport (Tbilisi)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.

Sulak Canyon 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

  • 22other viewpoints within 5 kmСмотровая площадка, Вид на Чиркейскую ГЭС, Вид на каньон со скалы and 19 more
  • 1shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 14campsites within 10 kmflat area for tent, Дубовая роща, 5 tents and 11 more
  • 11places to stay within 10 kmГостевой дом Юсупа, Ласточка, Гостевой дом and 8 more
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 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 Sulak Canyon, and what is near.

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

Peakyas34 mountains within 25 km
Gora Buragashop · 10 kmGora Sunt · 18 kmGebek Kala · 19 kmGora Baarkhadykbak · 19 kmGora Bergush · 23 kmAymante · 24 kmGora Rogdomeer · 24 kmTsanta2,294 m · 24 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Chirkey Reservoir30 km² · 8.3 kmChiryurtsk Reservoir2.8 km² · 14 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Sulak Canyon · this placeSulak Canyon · 1.3 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Sulak169 km · 176 m³/sAktash156 km · 2.6 m³/s

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.

Вид на каньон и реку Сулак у поселка Дубки
Александр Байдуков · CC BY-SA 4.0
DSC 1561 Сулакский каньон
AnnaAAkimova · CC BY-SA 4.0
Г. Г. Абдурахманов "Вид на Сулаксий каньон"
Gazikhan Abdurakhmanov · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Sulak Canyon

Russia

  • 22Viewyas Score
  • 6 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 290 mAltitude

Mount Bazardüzü

Azerbaijan · 216 km

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

See the guide

Mount Shahdagh

Azerbaijan · 216 km

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

See the guide

Mount Kazbek

Russia · 191 km

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 64Peaks in view
  • 4,991 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q48945066) · 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, Lakeyas, Canyonyas, Riveryas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit