Czechia observation tower
Háj u Aše
You can see 84 km from here, looking 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 84 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).
- 84 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 248Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 758 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 248 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- 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
Háj u Aše.
Háj u Aše is an observation tower in Czechia, 758 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 84 km away, looking west.
248 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Großer Arber (1,456 m), 142 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Apr-May 09:00-17:00, Jun-Aug 09:00-19:00, Sep-Oct 09:00-17:00
- Kemp Pod Rozhlednoucampsite · 0.3 km · 12 within 10 km
- Hubertusplace to stay · 3.2 km · 78 within 10 km
- Ašnearest town · 1.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AšBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Karlovy Vary Airport (KLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 51 km in a straight lineCar hire at NUE airport (Nuremberg)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 kmrozhledna Háj u Aše, Rozhledna Stráž u Aše and 5 more
- 15named peaks within 5 kmHáj, Plattenberg, Reuther Höhe and 12 more
- 11marked trails within 3 kmOstweg (FGV), [Č] Cheb - Trojmezí, [Z] Krásná - nejzápadnější bod ČR and 8 more
- 42shelters and huts within 5 kmHeink-Hütte, Aš, Krajka, Aš, sídliště and 39 more
- 195car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmInformační centrum Aš
- 18restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 kmKemp Pod Rozhlednou, Stellplatz Hotel Quellenpark, Wartberg-Camp I Jugend Zeltplatz and 9 more
- 78places to stay within 10 kmHubertus, Privatzimmer Schubert, Central and 75 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 Háj u Aše, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas131 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas9 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 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.
Háj u Aše
Czechia
- 66Viewyas Score
- 84 kmFarthest ridge
- 248Peaks in view
- 758 mAltitude
Upper Palatinate Tower
Germany · 38 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 636Peaks in view
- 955 mAltitude
Chebská stráž
Czechia · 19 km
- 60Viewyas Score
- 60 kmFarthest ridge
- 58Peaks in view
- 506 mAltitude
Burgruine Schellenberg
Germany · 57 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 131 kmFarthest ridge
- 357Peaks in view
- 820 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q866484) · 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, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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