Germany observation deck
Chinese Tower
You can see 141 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 141 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).
- 141 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,432Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 514 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1,432 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Decsouth-west8 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
Chinese Tower.
Building in Munich, Germany
Chinese Tower is an observation deck in Germany, 514 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 141 km away, looking south-east.
1,432 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Grossglockner (3,798 m), 146 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- The Tentcampsite · 6.9 km · 6 within 10 km
- Suite Novotelplace to stay · 3.0 km · 543 within 10 km
- Bogenhausennearest town · 1.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BogenhausenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Munich Airport (MUC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 27 km in a straight lineCar hire at MUC airport (Munich)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
- 29other viewpoints within 5 kmBavaria, Turm des Rathauses, Deutsches Museum and 26 more
- 4named peaks within 5 kmOlympiaberg, Luitpoldhügel, Neuhofener Berg and 1 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmMünchner Jakobsweg, KulturGeschichtsPfad 3 Maxvorstadt - Erster Spaziergang, KulturGeschichtsPfad 3 Maxvorstadt - Dritter Spaziergang and 4 more
- 974shelters and huts within 5 kmWetterpilz and 973 more
- 1,125car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmInfozentrum am Rathaus München, Infopoint Museen & Schlösser, Zweite Stammstrecke München
- 1,538restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmThe Tent, Campingplatz Thalkirchen, Wohnmobilstellplatz Allianz Arena and 3 more
- 543places to stay within 10 kmSuite Novotel, Ibis München Parkstadt Schwabing, elaya hotel munich schwabing and 540 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 Chinese Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas23 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas23 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Chinese Tower
Germany
- 75Viewyas Score
- 141 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,432Peaks in view
- 514 mAltitude
Zugspitze
Germany · 93 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 2,536Peaks in view
- 2,926 mAltitude
AlpspiX
Germany · 89 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 320Peaks in view
- 2,006 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3995164) · 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, Darkskyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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