Bulgaria canyon rim
Trigrad Gorge
You can see 32 km from here, looking north-west.
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 32 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).
- 32 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 79%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,326 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 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.
- Jansouth-west124 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Febsouth-west86 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest84 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest70 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Maywest46 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Junnorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Julnorth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Augwest60 min before the sea-level sunset63%
- Sepwest80 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Octsouth-west82 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novsouth-west112 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Decsouth-west124 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- 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
Trigrad Gorge.
Gorge in Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria
Trigrad Gorge is a canyon rim in Bulgaria, 1,326 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 32 km away, looking north-west.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 79% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.

Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Villa 1-4place to stay · 0.7 km · 30 within 10 km
- Gyovrennearest town · 5.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in GyovrenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Plovdiv International Airport (PDV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 64 km in a straight lineCar hire at PDV airport (Plovdiv)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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmОрлово око, Вълчи камък, Орфеева сълза and 7 more
- 17named peaks within 5 kmБезимен, Дур Дага, TT-9432;Кара Кая and 14 more
- 6marked trails within 3 kmТрансродопски маршрут за планински пешеходен и велотуризъм, Ягодинска пещера – х. Триградски скали – х.Чаирски езера – х. Ледницата, European long distance path E8 - part Bulgaria and 3 more
- 15shelters and huts within 5 kmАджиларска река, Заслон and 13 more
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 30places to stay within 10 kmVilla 1-4, х.Триградски скали, Trigrad and 27 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- campsites 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 Trigrad Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
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.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3110994) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
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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