Germany observation tower
Killesberg Tower
You can see 84 km from here, looking north.
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 north
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 99Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 354 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 99 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-west12 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west14 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
Killesberg Tower.
Observation tower in Stuttgart
Killesberg Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 354 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 84 km away, looking north.
99 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kalmit (674 m), 98 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Camping Stuttgart Cannstatter Wasencampsite · 3.7 km · 5 within 10 km
- Messehotel Europeplace to stay · 0.7 km · 265 within 10 km
- Stuttgart Feuerbachnearest town · 1.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Stuttgart FeuerbachBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Stuttgart Airport (STR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 km in a straight lineCar hire at STR airport (Stuttgart)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
- 101other viewpoints within 5 kmAussichtsplatte Humboldtstraße, Aussichtspunkt Hasenberganlage (Hasenbergsteige 50), Weißenburg and 98 more
- 10named peaks within 5 kmFrauenkopf, Birkenkopf, Uhlandshöhe and 7 more
- 8cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 27marked trails within 3 kmStuttgarter Rundwanderweg - Rößleweg, Botnanger Kuckucksweg, Nebenlinie Magstadt - Doggenburg and 24 more
- 129shelters and huts within 5 kmBerliner Platz (Liederhalle), Marconistraße, Bettelweg-Grillhütte and 126 more
- 776car parks within 3 km
- 14visitor centres within 5 kmDB Information, SSB Kundenzentrum, Gläsernes Büro Rosenstein and 11 more
- 343restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmCamping Stuttgart Cannstatter Wasen, Wohnmobilstellplatz Fellbach, Sonnenhof and 2 more
- 265places to stay within 10 kmMessehotel Europe, Luna Inn, Steigenberger Graf Zeppelin and 262 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 Killesberg Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas123 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas8 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Killesberg Tower
Germany
- 65Viewyas Score
- 84 kmFarthest ridge
- 99Peaks in view
- 354 mAltitude
Observation Tower Burgholzhof
Germany · 2 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 84 kmFarthest ridge
- 145Peaks in view
- 356 mAltitude
Hohe Warte
Germany · 37 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 212 kmFarthest ridge
- 573Peaks in view
- 830 mAltitude
Büchenbronn Observation Tower
Germany · 39 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 158 kmFarthest ridge
- 320Peaks in view
- 614 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1741370) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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