Bulgaria summit
Vitosha
You can see 216 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 216 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).
- 216 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 77Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,246 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 77 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 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-west50 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Febsouth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon32%
- Maynorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Octwest28 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Novsouth-west44 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Decsouth-west58 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
Vitosha.
Mountain massif in Bulgaria
Vitosha is a summit in Bulgaria, 2,246 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 216 km away, looking north-west.
77 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Musala (2,925 m), 50 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Танчовицаcampsite · 5.9 km · 2 within 10 km
- х. Физкултурникplace to stay · 3.5 km · 130 within 10 km
- Sofianearest town · 15 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SofiaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sofia Airport (SOF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 km in a straight lineCar hire at SOF airport (Sofia)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
- 15other viewpoints within 5 kmПанорамна алея "Галунка" Бистрица-Железница, 3 крайна спирка (информационни табели), Скалата над торфите and 12 more
- 30named peaks within 5 kmЧерни връх, Скопарника, Купена and 27 more
- 21cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 11marked trails within 3 kmВладая - Черни Връх, Бистрица - Алеко (Янчовска река), Симеоново - Алеко and 8 more
- 36shelters and huts within 5 kmзаслон Меча чешма, Синята стрела нов, Синята стрела стар and 33 more
- 4car parks within 3 km
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmТанчовица
- 130places to stay within 10 kmх. Физкултурник, х.Северина, Каменно здание and 127 more
- 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 Vitosha, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas26 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 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.
Vitosha
Bulgaria
- 77Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 77Peaks in view
- 2,246 mAltitude
Musala
Bulgaria · 50 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 218Peaks in view
- 2,908 mAltitude
Vihren
Bulgaria · 90 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 167Peaks in view
- 2,893 mAltitude
Midžor
Serbia · 104 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 212Peaks in view
- 2,155 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q378943) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, 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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