Czechia scenic viewpoint
Chebská stráž
You can see 60 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 60 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).
- 60 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 58Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 506 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 58 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-west22 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Febwest16 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- 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
Chebská stráž.
Chebská stráž is a scenic viewpoint in Czechia, 506 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 60 km away, looking north-east.
58 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Klínovec (1,244 m), 56 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Camping Podhořícampsite · 1.3 km · 15 within 10 km
- Resort Steinplace to stay · 0.6 km · 126 within 10 km
- Chebnearest town · 2.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ChebBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Karlovy Vary Airport (KLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 43 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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmChebská stráž, Salingburg, Zlatý vrch and 10 more
- 9named peaks within 5 kmZelená hora, Vlčí vrch, Rovinka and 6 more
- 18marked trails within 3 kmEuropean long distance path E6 - part Czech Republic, [Č] Cheb - Klínovec, [Č] Cheb - Trojmezí and 15 more
- 35shelters and huts within 5 km
- 156car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmTuristické infocentrum Františkovy Lázně, Turistické Infocentrum Cheb
- 49restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 15campsites within 10 kmCamping Podhoří, Kemp, Camping Amerika and 12 more
- 126places to stay within 10 kmResort Stein, U Kata, Modrý Věžák and 123 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 Chebská stráž, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas104 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas15 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Chebská stráž
Czechia
- 60Viewyas Score
- 60 kmFarthest ridge
- 58Peaks in view
- 506 mAltitude
Upper Palatinate Tower
Germany · 28 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 636Peaks in view
- 955 mAltitude
Burgruine Schellenberg
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- 73Viewyas Score
- 131 kmFarthest ridge
- 357Peaks in view
- 820 mAltitude
Háj u Aše
Czechia · 19 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 84 kmFarthest ridge
- 248Peaks in view
- 758 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11723163) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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