Czechia observation tower
Bára
You can see 109 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 109 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).
- 109 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 534Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 346 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 534 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-west18 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- 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
Bára.
Observation tower
Bára is an observation tower in Czechia, 346 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 109 km away, looking north.
534 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sněžka (1,603 m), 91 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upfree entryOfficial site↗
- Autokempink Konopáčcampsite · 9.8 km · 8 within 10 km
- Bonetplace to stay · 2.7 km · 19 within 10 km
- Slatiňanynearest town · 2.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SlatiňanyBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Pardubice Airport (PED)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 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
- 5other viewpoints within 5 kmRozhledna Bára and 4 more
- 8named peaks within 5 kmPodhůra, Hůra, Na Chlumu and 5 more
- 12marked trails within 3 km[M] Vlastivědná stezka krajem Chrudimky, [Č] Chrudim - Vápenný Podol - Peklo u Hedvikova, [Ž] Chrudim - Podhůra - Rabštejnská Lhota - Sobětuchy and 9 more
- 57shelters and huts within 5 km
- 100car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmTuristické Informační Centrum, Zámek Slatiňany
- 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 8campsites within 10 kmAutokempink Konopáč, Autokemp U Letadla - recepce, Dětský tábor Jiskra and 5 more
- 19places to stay within 10 kmBonet, Penzion U Náhonu, Žižka I. and 16 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 Bára, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas22 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas9 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 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.
Bára
Czechia
- 69Viewyas Score
- 109 kmFarthest ridge
- 534Peaks in view
- 346 mAltitude
Devil's Table
Czechia · 23 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 91 kmFarthest ridge
- 84Peaks in view
- 564 mAltitude
Masaryk Tower of Independence
Czechia · 52 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 419Peaks in view
- 405 mAltitude
Králický Sněžník
Czechia · 83 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 181 kmFarthest ridge
- 585Peaks in view
- 1,421 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1390657) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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