Czechia observation tower
Babí lom
You can see 193 km from here, looking south.
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 193 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).
- 193 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 812Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 519 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 812 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 August 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west4 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
Babí lom.
Observation tower
Babí lom is an observation tower in Czechia, 519 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 193 km away, looking south.
812 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Velká Deštná (1,116 m), 112 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Camp Oása Chudčicecampsite · 9.0 km · 6 within 10 km
- Na Gruntěplace to stay · 2.4 km · 68 within 10 km
- Lelekovicenearest town · 1.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in LelekoviceBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Brno-Tuřany Airport (BRQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 19 km in a straight lineCar hire at BRQ airport (Brno)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
- 8other viewpoints within 5 km
- 23named peaks within 5 kmBabí lom (jižní vrchol), Horka, Velká baba and 20 more
- 21marked trails within 3 km[M] Brno-Medlánky (MHD) - Pod Ronovem, [Z] Soběšice - U Jelínka, [Č] Luleč - Macocha - Brno Mokrá Hora (MHD) and 18 more
- 42shelters and huts within 5 kmPod Hradem and 41 more
- 92car parks within 3 km
- 11restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmCamp Oása Chudčice, Obora, Camping Hana and 3 more
- 68places to stay within 10 kmNa Gruntě, Vranov, Penzion Gallus and 65 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 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 Babí lom, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas212 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas17 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Babí lom
Czechia
- 77Viewyas Score
- 193 kmFarthest ridge
- 812Peaks in view
- 519 mAltitude
Alexandrova rozhledna
Czechia · 7 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 219 kmFarthest ridge
- 594Peaks in view
- 482 mAltitude
Akátová věž
Czechia · 30 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 193 kmFarthest ridge
- 775Peaks in view
- 349 mAltitude
Rozhledna Holedná
Czechia · 10 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 91 kmFarthest ridge
- 66Peaks in view
- 318 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q10859700) · 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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