Poland observation tower
Former observation tower on St. Anna’s Mountain in Nowa Ruda
You can see 80 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 80 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).
- 80 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 243Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 641 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 243 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 August 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west12 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
Former observation tower on St. Anna’s Mountain in Nowa Ruda.
Tower in Nowa Ruda, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Former observation tower on St. Anna’s Mountain in Nowa Ruda is an observation tower in Poland, 641 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 80 km away, looking south-east.
243 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sněžka (1,603 m), 57 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: 24/7 · free entry
- Leśny Dwórcampsite · 6.3 km · 10 within 10 km
- Romantikaplace to stay · 1.6 km · 113 within 10 km
- Nowa Rudanearest town · 1.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Nowa RudaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Copernicus Wrocław Airport (WRO)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 65 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
- 7other viewpoints within 5 km
- 31named peaks within 5 kmPustółka, Nowa Kopa, Wesoła and 28 more
- 14marked trails within 3 kmGłówny Szlak Sudecki, Szklary - Bielawa - Przełęcz Puchacza, Wielka Sowa - Kościelec and 11 more
- 27shelters and huts within 5 km
- 103car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 12restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 10campsites within 10 kmLeśny Dwór, Camping Šonov, Camping U Potoka and 7 more
- 113places to stay within 10 kmRomantika, Chata Ale Lipa, Sala biesiadna and 110 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 Former observation tower on St. Anna’s Mountain in Nowa Ruda, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas147 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls 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.
Former observation tower on St. Anna’s Mountain in Nowa Ruda
Poland
- 65Viewyas Score
- 80 kmFarthest ridge
- 243Peaks in view
- 641 mAltitude
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Poland · 13 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 151 kmFarthest ridge
- 399Peaks in view
- 1,014 mAltitude
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- 76Viewyas Score
- 141 kmFarthest ridge
- 336Peaks in view
- 849 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q9373860) · 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, Birdyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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