Germany observation tower
Hochblauen Observation Tower
You can see 226 km from here, looking south.
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 226 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).
- 226 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,445Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,157 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1,445 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 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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon26%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon30%
- Novsouth-westsets on an open horizon22%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon22%
- 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
Hochblauen Observation Tower.
Observation tower on Blauen mountain in the Black Forest
Hochblauen Observation Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 1,157 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 226 km away, looking south.
1,445 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Finsteraarhorn (4,274 m), 142 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Wohnmobilstellplatz Parkplatz Süd Badenweilercampsite · 3.1 km · 17 within 10 km
- Waldhotel Badenweilerplace to stay · 3.0 km · 88 within 10 km
- Badenweilernearest town · 3.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BadenweilerBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 24 km in a straight lineCar hire at BSL airport (Bâle / Mulhouse)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
- 30other viewpoints within 5 kmAlter Mann, Altvogelbach-Fels, Richtungstafel Britzingen and 27 more
- 26named peaks within 5 kmBlauen, Prinzensitz, Am brennten Buck and 23 more
- 60marked trails within 3 kmWestweg (Westliche Variante), Zähringer-Wanderweg, Bettlerpfad and 57 more
- 41shelters and huts within 5 kmSirnitz-Hütte, Schutzhütte Hirschmatt, Hexenplatzhütte and 38 more
- 33car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourist-Information Badenweiler
- 22restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 17campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplatz Parkplatz Süd Badenweiler, Kur- und Feriencamping Badenweiler, Stellplatz am Freibad Müllheim and 14 more
- 88places to stay within 10 kmWaldhotel Badenweiler, Badenweiler Hof, Morgensonne and 85 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 Hochblauen Observation Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas126 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas5 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas1 caves 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.
Hochblauen Observation Tower
Germany
- 77Viewyas Score
- 226 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,445Peaks in view
- 1,157 mAltitude
Feldberg
Germany · 25 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,545Peaks in view
- 1,490 mAltitude
Belvédère tower
France · 27 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 156 kmFarthest ridge
- 648Peaks in view
- 337 mAltitude
Hochfirst Tower
Germany · 39 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,338Peaks in view
- 1,197 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q6150630) · 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, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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