Germany observation tower
Alter Leuchtturm Wangerooge
You can see 38 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 38 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).
- 38 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 67%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 5Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 7 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 5 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 April to May and in July.
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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- 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
Alter Leuchtturm Wangerooge.
Lighthouse in Lower Saxony, Germany
Alter Leuchtturm Wangerooge is an observation tower in Germany.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 38 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 67% of the horizon.
5 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pinneberg (61 m), 44 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May and in July.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Harlesiel Stellplatz an der Molecampsite · 11 km · 5 within 10 km
- Haus Leuchtfeuerplace to stay · 0.0 km · 190 within 10 km
- Nordseeheilbad Wangeroogenearest town · 0.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Nordseeheilbad WangeroogeBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sea-Airport Cuxhaven/Nordholz / Nordholz Naval Airbase (FCN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 50 km in a straight lineCar hire at BRE airport (Bremen)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 kmAussichtsdüne, Jever Plattform
- 1named peaks within 5 kmAussichtsdüne
- 7shelters and huts within 5 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmTouristeninformation Wangerooge
- 24restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmHarlesiel Stellplatz an der Mole, Wohnmobilhafen an der Mole Harlesiel, Campingplatz Harlesiel and 2 more
- 190places to stay within 10 kmHaus Leuchtfeuer, Residenz am Rosengarten, Inselliebe and 187 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- car parks 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 Alter Leuchtturm Wangerooge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Alter Leuchtturm Wangerooge
Germany
- 62Viewyas Score
- 38 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 7 mAltitude
Rotes Kliff
Germany · 132 km
- 57Viewyas Score
- 32 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 27 mAltitude
Wartturm
Germany · 174 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 115 kmFarthest ridge
- 335Peaks in view
- 318 mAltitude
Dörenther Klippen
Germany · 172 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 200Peaks in view
- 145 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q28332814) · 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, Islandyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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