Skip to content
viewyas
EN

Russia Russia canyon rim

Valley of Geysers

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

31Viewyas 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.

31out 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-east
  • 85%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 541 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 September to October.

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-west100 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  2. Febsouth-west78 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  3. Marwest32 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  4. Aprwest62 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  5. Maynorth-west60 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  6. Junnorth-west60 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  7. Julnorth-west60 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  8. Augwest64 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  9. Sepwest52 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  10. Octsouth-west66 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  11. Novsouth-west92 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  12. Decsouth-west116 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  • 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

Valley of Geysers.

Canyon in Russia

Valley of Geysers is a canyon rim in Russia, 541 m above the sea.

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

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 85% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from September to October.

Valley of the Geysers
Robert Nunn from London, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0

Get there and stay

  • Yelizovo Airport (PKC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 179 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Valley of GeysersGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Valley of GeysersBooking.comSee prices Car hire in RussiaDiscover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Valley of Geysers 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

  • 5other viewpoints within 5 kmВид на Большой and 4 more
  • 3named peaks within 5 kmОстанец, Гейзерная сопка, соп. Красная
  • 2campsites within 10 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
  • 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 Valley of Geysers, 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
Kikhpinych1,552 m · 9.3 kmBurlyaschy1,016 m · volcano · 16 kmBolshoy Semyachik1,720 m · volcano · 18 kmEastern Baraniy · 20 kmKrasheninnikov1,856 m · volcano · 20 kmWestern Baraniy · 21 kmCentral Semyachik979 m · volcano · 24 kmTaunshits2,353 m · volcano · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Tsentralnoe1.0 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Valley of GeysersBortle 1 · this placeKikhpinychBortle 1 · 9.3 kmKrasheninnikovBortle 1 · 20 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Valley of Geysers · this placeValley of Geysers · 2.9 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Shumnaya38 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.

Долина гейзеров (2018)
Malupasic · CC BY-SA 4.0
Schlammloch im Tal der Geysire
BohunkaNika · CC BY-SA 4.0
Valley of Geysers (Kamchatka, 2020)-1
Rubin16 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Valley of Geysers

Russia

  • 31Viewyas Score
  • 6 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 541 mAltitude

Avachinsky

Russia · 156 km

  • 86Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 14Peaks in view
  • 2,716 mAltitude

See the guide

Koryaksky

Russia · 156 km

  • 85Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 11Peaks in view
  • 3,419 mAltitude

See the guide

Klyuchevskaya Sopka

Russia · 185 km

  • 86Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 14Peaks in view
  • 4,824 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1235610) · 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, Darkskyas, 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