Germany observation tower
Aussichtsturm
You can see 80 km from here, looking north.
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 80 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).
- 80 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 332Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 360 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 332 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 in April and from July to September.
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 sunset18%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- 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
Aussichtsturm.
Cultural heritage monument D-6-63-000-19 (0) in Würzburg, Bavaria
Aussichtsturm is an observation tower in Germany, 360 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 80 km away, looking north.
332 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Wasserkuppe (950 m), 80 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Apr-Sep 08:00-19:00; Oct-Mar 09:00-13:00 · ticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Kanu-Clubcampsite · 1.6 km · 13 within 10 km
- Jugendherberge Würzburgplace to stay · 1.5 km · 131 within 10 km
- Höchbergnearest town · 1.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in HöchbergBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Nuremberg Airport (NUE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 90 km in a straight lineCar hire at NUE airport (Nuremberg)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
- 42other viewpoints within 5 kmBastion St. Carl, Bastion St. Johann Nepomuk, Hoch3 Skylounge and 39 more
- 9named peaks within 5 kmNikolausberg, Unglücksberg, Büchelberg and 6 more
- 41marked trails within 3 kmJakobsweg Würzburg-Rothenburg o.d. Tauber, Blau: Wü-Steinbachtal - Reichenberg, Schwarz: Wü-Steinbachtal - Reichenberg and 38 more
- 171shelters and huts within 5 kmSteinbachtalhütte, Helferich Hütte and 169 more
- 750car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Information Falkenhaus, Uniklinik - Pforte, DB Information and 2 more
- 265restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 13campsites within 10 kmKanu-Club, An der Friedensbrücke Würzburg, Alter Hafen Außengelände and 10 more
- 131places to stay within 10 kmJugendherberge Würzburg, Zum Walfisch, Hotel Lamm and 128 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Aussichtsturm, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas213 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Aussichtsturm
Germany
- 65Viewyas Score
- 80 kmFarthest ridge
- 332Peaks in view
- 360 mAltitude
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Germany · 44 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 91 kmFarthest ridge
- 300Peaks in view
- 397 mAltitude
Balthasar Neumann Haus
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- 51Viewyas Score
- 48 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 181 mAltitude
Ludwigs-Tower
Germany · 48 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 78 kmFarthest ridge
- 247Peaks in view
- 397 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q780376) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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