Austria observation tower
Castle ruins of Rauheneck
You can see 105 km from here, looking north-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 105 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).
- 105 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 118Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 355 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 118 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 August.
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-west38 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Febsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest40 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Aprwest52 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Maynorth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Junnorth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Julnorth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest50 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Sepwest46 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwest34 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Novsouth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- 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
Castle ruins of Rauheneck.
Castle ruins in Lower Austria
Castle ruins of Rauheneck is an observation tower in Austria, 355 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 105 km away, looking north-east.
118 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hohe Wand (1,132 m), 22 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in August.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Seecamping Masai Maracampsite · 9.1 km · 1 within 10 km
- Gasthof Martinekplace to stay · 0.8 km · 83 within 10 km
- Badennearest town · 2.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BadenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Vienna International Airport (VIE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 29 km in a straight lineCar hire at VIE airport (Vienna)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
- 48other viewpoints within 5 kmKlesheimwarte, Urtelstein, Karolinenhöhe and 45 more
- 47named peaks within 5 kmAnninger, Harterberg, Badner Lindkogel and 44 more
- 78marked trails within 3 kmMödlinger Rundwanderweg, Voralpenweg 04 (Südroute), Wanderweg 404 Wienerwald-Weitwanderweg and 75 more
- 37shelters and huts within 5 kmAntonsgrotte, Faberhöhe, Baden Viadukt and 34 more
- 152car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmReisezentrum ÖBB
- 100restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmSeecamping Masai Mara
- 83places to stay within 10 kmGasthof Martinek, Hotel Eden, Schlosshotel Oth and 80 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 Castle ruins of Rauheneck, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas219 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas8 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.
Castle ruins of Rauheneck
Austria
- 68Viewyas Score
- 105 kmFarthest ridge
- 118Peaks in view
- 355 mAltitude
Wienerblick
Austria · 20 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 148 kmFarthest ridge
- 267Peaks in view
- 452 mAltitude
Habsburgwarte
Austria · 30 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 137 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,091Peaks in view
- 534 mAltitude
Himmelhof
Austria · 21 km
- 70Viewyas Score
- 128 kmFarthest ridge
- 171Peaks in view
- 360 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1015468) · 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, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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