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Ta' Dmejrek

You can see 219 km from here, looking north.

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 219 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.

92out 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).

  • 219 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 78%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 12Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 249 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 12 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.

Monte Arcibessi906 m · 135 km · northMonte Lauro987 m · 148 km · northMount Alveria122 m · 133 km · north-eastĠebel San Pietru147 m · 10 km · north-eastTa' Dbieġi177 m · 28 km · north-westIl-Gelmus133 m · 27 km · north-westNadur238 m · 6.5 km · northMellieħa Ridge145 m · 13 km · north

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 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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  2. Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  3. Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  4. Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  5. Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset55%
  6. Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset68%
  7. Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset76%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset74%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  10. Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  11. Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  • 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

Ta' Dmejrek.

Highest elevation point of Malta

Ta' Dmejrek is a summit in Malta, 249 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 219 km away, looking north.

The sea fills 78% of the horizon.

12 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Monte Lauro (987 m), 148 km away.

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

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Dingli Cliffs 2009
Felix König · CC BY 3.0

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.

Ta' Dmejrek 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

  • 11other viewpoints within 5 kmDingli Cliffs Viewpoint, Bastion Square, Mdina Gate „View of the view“ and 8 more
  • 3named peaks within 5 kmLaferla, Ta’ Dmejrek, Tal-Merħla
  • 6marked trails within 3 kmMMV Tour 1, MMV Tour 2, MMV Tour 3 and 3 more
  • 6shelters and huts within 5 kmDingli Old Radar Station and 5 more
  • 22car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Information Office
  • 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmwild camping, L-Iscouts taż-Żurrieq, Mosta Scout Campsite & Activity Centre and 3 more
  • 155places to stay within 10 kmThe Xara Palace Relais & Chateaux, Corinthia Palace Hotel, NSTS Hostel and 152 more
  • cable car and funicular stations 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 Ta' Dmejrek, and what is near.

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

Peakyas12 mountains within 25 km
Ta' Dmejrek · this placeTa' Baldu186 m · 4.2 kmIl-Qolla183 m · 6.1 kmNadur238 m · 6.5 kmIl-Ħotba ta' San Martin133 m · 9.6 kmĠebel Għawżara117 m · 9.6 kmĠebel San Pietru147 m · 10 kmMellieħa Ridge145 m · 13 km
Coastya10 beaches within 10 km
Buxiħ · 0.4 kmIx-Xwieki · 1.8 kmIx-Xaqqa · 2.1 kmGħar Lapsi · 3.3 kmIl-Mitqub · 4.1 kmL-Ilsna · 4.3 kmMiġra Ferħa · 6.0 kmId-Daħla · 6.8 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Flarestar ObservatoryBortle 8 · 9.9 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.

Ta' Dmejrek (21 March 2025) (1)
Olos88 · CC0
Ta' Dmejrek (21 March 2025) (10)
Olos88 · CC0
Ta' Dmejrek-IMG 1501
C T Johansson · CC BY 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Ta' Dmejrek

Malta

  • 92Viewyas Score
  • 219 kmFarthest ridge
  • 12Peaks in view
  • 249 mAltitude

Dingli Cliffs

Malta · 2 km

  • 64Viewyas Score
  • 58 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 230 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Etna

Italy · 218 km

  • 92Viewyas Score
  • 222 kmFarthest ridge
  • 14Peaks in view
  • 3,277 mAltitude

See the guide

Vulcano

Italy · 289 km

  • 89Viewyas Score
  • 217 kmFarthest ridge
  • 28Peaks in view
  • 377 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1850604) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas

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

The family

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