Germany observation tower
Humberg Tower
You can see 104 km from here, looking south-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 104 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).
- 104 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 182Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 436 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 182 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 in 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 sunset20%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west4 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
Humberg Tower.
Observation tower in Kaiserslautern
Humberg Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 436 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 104 km away, looking south-west.
182 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Erbeskopf (816 m), 61 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in September.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: 24/7 · free entryOfficial site↗
- Wohnmobil Stellplatz Kaiserslautern Daennerplatzcampsite · 3.5 km · 9 within 10 km
- 66Bplace to stay · 2.3 km · 63 within 10 km
- Kaiserslauternnearest town · 3.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KaiserslauternBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Saarbrücken Airport (SCN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 53 km in a straight lineCar hire at HHN airport (Frankfurt am Main)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
- 14other viewpoints within 5 kmKleiner Humberg, Aussichtspunkt Rummelshald, Humbergturm and 11 more
- 28named peaks within 5 kmGroßer Humberg, Kleiner Humberg, Kleiner Roßrück and 25 more
- 30marked trails within 3 kmKönig-Albrecht-Wanderweg, Uni-Villa-Wanderweg, Pfälzerwald Weiß-Roter Balken and 27 more
- 23shelters and huts within 5 kmMölschbacher Waldwichtel and 22 more
- 277car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmDB Information, Service Center des Hochschulrechenzentrums, Tourist Information
- 53restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmWohnmobil Stellplatz Kaiserslautern Daennerplatz, Finsterbrunner Tal, Gelterswoog and 6 more
- 63places to stay within 10 km66B, Hotel Altes Zollamt, Gästehaus Lutrina and 60 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 Humberg Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas375 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 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.
Humberg Tower
Germany
- 69Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 182Peaks in view
- 436 mAltitude
Eschkopf tower
Germany · 13 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 161 kmFarthest ridge
- 385Peaks in view
- 612 mAltitude
Luitpold tower
Germany · 18 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 154 kmFarthest ridge
- 361Peaks in view
- 611 mAltitude
Schindhübel Tower
Germany · 12 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 135 kmFarthest ridge
- 304Peaks in view
- 575 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q514570) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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