Czechia scenic viewpoint
Elbwarte
You can see 26 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 26 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).
- 26 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 31Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 310 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 31 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-west18 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest14 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest18 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest20 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest14 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west18 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
Elbwarte.
Observation pavilion in Děčín
Elbwarte is a scenic viewpoint in Czechia, 310 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 26 km away, looking north.
31 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Milešovka (837 m), 34 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Kemp Děčín s.r.o. & Cyklostopcampsite · 2.5 km · 17 within 10 km
- Hotel Poštaplace to stay · 1.7 km · 98 within 10 km
- Děčínnearest town · 1.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in DěčínBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Dresden Airport (DRS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 50 km in a straight lineCar hire at DRS airport (Dresden)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
- 50other viewpoints within 5 kmRůžový hřbety, Růžová vyhlídka, Děčínská výšina and 47 more
- 218named peaks within 5 kmArnoltický vrch, Popovický vrch, Popovičský vrch and 215 more
- 14marked trails within 3 km[Z] Horní Habartice - Markvartice, [Ž] Děčín - Čertova voda, [Č] Proboštov - Děčín and 11 more
- 20shelters and huts within 5 kmU Kaštanů and 19 more
- 197car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmMěstské informační centrum hlavní nádraží, Turistické informační centrum Knihovna, Railway Information
- 38restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 17campsites within 10 kmKemp Děčín s.r.o. & Cyklostop, převis, Rosalka and 14 more
- 98places to stay within 10 kmHotel Pošta, Penzion Blanka, Hotel Kocanda and 95 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 Elbwarte, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas272 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas9 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas17 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Elbwarte
Czechia
- 54Viewyas Score
- 26 kmFarthest ridge
- 31Peaks in view
- 310 mAltitude
Oberbärenburg Observation Tower
Germany · 37 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 138 kmFarthest ridge
- 476Peaks in view
- 750 mAltitude
Erbenova vyhlídka
Czechia · 18 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 86 kmFarthest ridge
- 84Peaks in view
- 415 mAltitude
Observation Tower at Goetzinger's Height
Germany · 25 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 89 kmFarthest ridge
- 111Peaks in view
- 425 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q61793586) · 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, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, 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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