South Africa cliff
Waterfall Bluff
You can see 36 km from here, looking south-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 36 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).
- 36 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 49%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 33 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 sunset, month by month.
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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Marwest22 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Aprwest30 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Maynorth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Junnorth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Julnorth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Augwest32 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Sepwest26 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Novwest8 min before the sea-level sunset—
- Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset—
- 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
Waterfall Bluff.
Cliff in South Africa
Waterfall Bluff is a cliff in South Africa, 33 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 36 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 49% of the horizon.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
Get there and stay
- Mbotyi Camp Sitecampsite · 10 km · 2 within 10 km
- Lambazi Bayplace to stay · 9.3 km · 36 within 10 km
- Margate Airport (MGH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 80 km in a straight lineCar hire at MGH airport (Margate)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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 kmCathedral Rock, Waterfall Bluff
- 2campsites within 10 kmMbotyi Camp Site, Community Campsite
- 36places to stay within 10 kmLambazi Bay, Mbotyi River Lodge and 34 more
- named peaks within 5 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
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 Waterfall Bluff, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Waterfall Bluff
South Africa
- 59Viewyas Score
- 36 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 33 mAltitude
Thabana Ntlenyana
Lesotho · 225 km
- 82Viewyas Score
- 164 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 3,472 mAltitude
Njesuthi
Lesotho · 252 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 229 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 3,446 mAltitude
Mont-Aux-Sources
Lesotho · 311 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 203 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 3,261 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3566674) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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