Germany summit
Brocken
You can see 225 km from here, looking south-east.
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 225 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).
- 225 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 737Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,138 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 737 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 in 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-westsets on an open horizon20%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon25%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon30%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon38%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon32%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon31%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon32%
- Augnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon35%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon29%
- Novsouth-westsets on an open horizon22%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon19%
- 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
Brocken.
Highest mountain of the Harz Mountains in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Brocken is a summit in Germany, 1,138 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 225 km away, looking south-east.
737 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kasseler Kuppe (754 m), 82 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in September.
Get there and stay
- Harz Mountain Campcampsite · 6.6 km · 9 within 10 km
- relexa Hotel Harz-Wald Braunlageplace to stay · 7.0 km · 491 within 10 km
- Braunlagenearest town · 8.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BraunlageBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Erfurt-Weimar Airport (ERF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 94 km in a straight lineCar hire at HAJ airport (Hannover)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
- 41other viewpoints within 5 kmObere Zeterklippe, Achtermannshöhe, Wurmbergbaude and 38 more
- 71named peaks within 5 kmBrocken, Wurmberg, Obere Zeterklippe and 68 more
- 3cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmWurmbergseilbahn Bergstation
- 35marked trails within 3 kmHarzer-Hexen-Stieg, Harzer Grenzweg (Grenzturm Rhoden - Grenzlandmuseum Tettenborn), Harzklub-Weg 10F and 32 more
- 38shelters and huts within 5 kmWolkenhäuschen, Achtermannshöhe and 36 more
- 4car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmBrockenhaus Nationalpark-Besucherzentrum, Tourist-Information, Nationalparkhaus Schierke
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmHarz Mountain Camp, Wanderlust Ilsetal, Bully Platz and 6 more
- 491places to stay within 10 kmrelexa Hotel Harz-Wald Braunlage, bla bla Diner & Bar, SANTORINI and 488 more
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 Brocken, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas625 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas6 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas7 birding sites within 25 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas11 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Brocken
Germany
- 77Viewyas Score
- 225 kmFarthest ridge
- 737Peaks in view
- 1,138 mAltitude
Kahle Klippe
Germany · 1 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 161 kmFarthest ridge
- 494Peaks in view
- 1,025 mAltitude
Zeterklippen
Germany · 2 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 137 kmFarthest ridge
- 104Peaks in view
- 914 mAltitude
Wolfsklippen
Germany · 5 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 132 kmFarthest ridge
- 105Peaks in view
- 718 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q155721) · 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, Birdyas, 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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