Romania observation tower
Firemen's tower in Cluj Napoca
You can see 131 km from here, looking 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 131 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).
- 131 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 341 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 6 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 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-west18 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Febwest16 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest20 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Maynorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Julnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Augwest20 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Octwest12 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Decsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- 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
Firemen's tower in Cluj Napoca.
Firemen's tower in Cluj Napoca is an observation tower in Romania, 341 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 131 km away, looking east.
6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pietrosu Peak (2,100 m), 127 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Colinacampsite · 5.0 km · 2 within 10 km
- Transylvania Hostelplace to stay · 0.3 km · 162 within 10 km
- Cluj-Napocanearest town · 1.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Cluj-NapocaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Avram Iancu Cluj International Airport (CLJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 7 km in a straight lineCar hire at CLJ airport (Cluj-Napoca)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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmPriveliște spre Cluj, Belvedere Gălcer and 8 more
- 13named peaks within 5 kmDealul Cetățuia, Dealul Soporului, Dealul Hoia and 10 more
- 2marked trails within 3 kmVia Mariae M01-47 Macău-Cluj-Napoca, Via Mariae M01-48 Cluj-Napoca-Cojocna
- 19shelters and huts within 5 km
- 666car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmCentrul de Informare Turistică, Centru de informare pentru cetățeni
- 400restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmColina, Camp Virtus
- 162places to stay within 10 kmTransylvania Hostel, Agape, Cluj Apartments - Deco and 159 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 Firemen's tower in Cluj Napoca, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 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.
Firemen's tower in Cluj Napoca
Romania
- 68Viewyas Score
- 131 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 341 mAltitude
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- 74Viewyas Score
- 127 kmFarthest ridge
- 57Peaks in view
- 132 mAltitude
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- 78Viewyas Score
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- 151Peaks in view
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Moldoveanu Peak
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- 78Viewyas Score
- 243 kmFarthest ridge
- 145Peaks in view
- 2,501 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1329393) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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