Germany observation tower
Hochfirst Tower
You can see 206 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 206 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).
- 206 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,338Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,197 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1,338 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- 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
Hochfirst Tower.
Observation tower on Hochfirst Mountain in Black Forest
Hochfirst Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 1,197 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 206 km away, looking east.
1,338 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Säntis (2,501 m), 113 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 upticket required
- Bühlhofcampsite · 3.5 km · 31 within 10 km
- Alpenblick Saigplace to stay · 1.1 km · 268 within 10 km
- Titisee-Neustadtnearest town · 2.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Titisee-NeustadtBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Zürich Airport (ZRH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 56 km in a straight lineCar hire at ZRH airport (Zurich)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
- 16other viewpoints within 5 kmTitisee-Feldberg Höllental, Schleifenfelsen, Hochfirstturm and 13 more
- 16named peaks within 5 kmWeißtannenhöhe, Hochfirst, Vögelefelsen and 13 more
- 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 126marked trails within 3 kmMittelweg, Westweg (Westliche Variante), Querweg Freiburg-Bodensee [Lenzkirch] and 123 more
- 34shelters and huts within 5 kmBalzenwaldhütte, Weisstannenhöhe Schutzhütte, Hans Straub Hütte and 31 more
- 127car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmKurhaus, Touristinformation Kappel, Tourist Information and 1 more
- 55restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 31campsites within 10 kmBühlhof, Campingplatz Weiherhof, Bankenhof and 28 more
- 268places to stay within 10 kmAlpenblick Saig, Neubierhäusle, Sonneneck and 265 more
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 Hochfirst Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas153 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas3 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas3 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.
Hochfirst Tower
Germany
- 77Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,338Peaks in view
- 1,197 mAltitude
Feldberg
Germany · 14 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,545Peaks in view
- 1,490 mAltitude
Wanne Observation Tower
Germany · 28 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 181 kmFarthest ridge
- 878Peaks in view
- 780 mAltitude
Roßkopf Tower
Germany · 24 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 127 kmFarthest ridge
- 277Peaks in view
- 743 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q880481) · 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, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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