Poland scenic viewpoint
Death Curve
You can see 121 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 121 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).
- 121 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 79Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 804 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 79 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-west24 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest46 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest20 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest30 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west30 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
Death Curve.
Death Curve is a scenic viewpoint in Poland, 804 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 121 km away, looking north.
79 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sněžka (1,603 m), 19 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Baza Pod Ponurą Małpącampsite · 2.3 km · 6 within 10 km
- Hotel Bosmanplace to stay · 2.3 km · 490 within 10 km
- Szklarska Porębanearest town · 2.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Szklarska PorębaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Pardubice Airport (PED)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 94 km in a straight lineCar hire at WRO airport (Wrocław)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
- 43other viewpoints within 5 kmKrucze Skały, Stary Kamieniołom, Bobrowe Skały and 40 more
- 54named peaks within 5 kmWysoki Kamień, Krucze Skały, Przedział and 51 more
- 7cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmSzrenica I and 6 more
- 15marked trails within 3 kmPiechowice - Pod Wielkim Szyszakiem, Szklarska Poręba - Śnieżne Kotły, Szklarska Poręba - Pasterka and 12 more
- 21shelters and huts within 5 kmLeśna Huta Wiata Turystyczna and 20 more
- 284car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmInformacja Turystyczna, Informacja i kasa
- 55restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmBaza Pod Ponurą Małpą, Nad Rozkosznym Stawem, Kemping Pod Mostem and 3 more
- 490places to stay within 10 kmHotel Bosman, Villa Romantica, Kaprys and 487 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 Death Curve, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas142 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees 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.
Death Curve
Poland
- 70Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 79Peaks in view
- 804 mAltitude
Štěpánka
Czechia · 17 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 173 kmFarthest ridge
- 539Peaks in view
- 949 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q9386144) · 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, 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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