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In Alien: Covenant (2017), the crew approaches a seemingly inhabited planet, and decides to go explore it.

Once they are on the planet,

David leads them to an abandoned city in ruins in which he lives. It seems to be only minutes of walk from where the ship has landed.

Is it explained in the film why they didn't see this before landing?

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The storms didn't let them explore that much. We also don't know how long they traveled to the necropolis.

They didn't explore that much, from what we could see. They rushed through the storm and landed in a place suitable for landing, close to the origin of the signal.

They were not that concerned with exploring the overall terrain (they could do so later), but more on where the signal was coming from.

Finally, after David rescued them, they might have moved for a long time (possible hours) before reaching the necropolis. That would imply a large distance (some miles) which may have hidden the city from the landing craft (due to the surrounding mountain range).

You can also consider this a plot hole...

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    In fact they made it pretty much a point that they dived rather head-first into this whole thing, throwing decades of planning out the window for a planet they didn't know anything about. They just didn't bother with studying the whole planet too much at all.
    – Napoleon Wilson
    Commented May 29, 2017 at 19:26

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