Romania observation tower
Foișorul de Foc
You can see 181 km from here, looking north-west.
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 181 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).
- 181 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 178Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 84 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 178 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 from July to 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- 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
Foișorul de Foc.
Heritage building and museum in Bucharest, Romania
Foișorul de Foc is an observation tower in Romania, 84 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 181 km away, looking north-west.
178 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is La Om (2,238 m), 140 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Going upticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Camping Casa Albacampsite · 8.9 km · 1 within 10 km
- Hotel Aphitryonplace to stay · 0.6 km · 326 within 10 km
- Bucharestnearest town · 1.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BucharestBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (BBU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 7 km in a straight lineCar hire at OTP airport (Otopeni)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
- 19other viewpoints within 5 kmMovila, Tineretului Park Coicioc Lake Overlook and 17 more
- 7named peaks within 5 kmDealul Arsenalului, Dealul Sutter, Dealul Mitropoliei and 4 more
- 53shelters and huts within 5 km
- 753car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmCentrul Național de Informare și Promovare Turistică, Information
- 943restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmCamping Casa Alba
- 326places to stay within 10 kmHotel Aphitryon, Regnetta hotel, Flower's B&B and 323 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 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 Foișorul de Foc, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas7 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Foișorul de Foc
Romania
- 80Viewyas Score
- 181 kmFarthest ridge
- 178Peaks in view
- 84 mAltitude
Franz Joseph Cliffs
Romania · 113 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 143 kmFarthest ridge
- 27Peaks in view
- 1,300 mAltitude
Moldoveanu Peak
Romania · 169 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 243 kmFarthest ridge
- 145Peaks in view
- 2,501 mAltitude
Negoiu Peak
Romania · 177 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 151Peaks in view
- 2,495 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q4687576) · 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, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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