Czechia scenic viewpoint
Kotvice Bird Observatory
You can see 68 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 68 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).
- 68 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 78Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 233 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 78 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 August.
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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west6 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
Kotvice Bird Observatory.
Watch tower, Nature Reserve Kotvice, Czech Republic
Kotvice Bird Observatory is a scenic viewpoint in Czechia, 233 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 68 km away, looking east.
78 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Lysá hora (1,324 m), 32 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Autocamp RICCOcampsite · 9.1 km · 2 within 10 km
- Penzion Krásná Marieplace to stay · 0.8 km · 37 within 10 km
- Studénkanearest town · 2.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in StudénkaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 2 km in a straight lineCar hire at OSR airport (Mošnov)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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 km
- 1named peaks within 5 kmBartošovický kopec
- 5marked trails within 3 kmZámecká naučná stezka, NS Kotvice and 3 more
- 8shelters and huts within 5 kmPřístřešek Albrechtičky, Eichendorffův domek and 6 more
- 198car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmBartošovice
- 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmAutocamp RICCO, Táborová základna Zbyslavice
- 37places to stay within 10 kmPenzion Krásná Marie, Hotel Vagónka, Hotýlek & Café Antler and 34 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 Kotvice Bird Observatory, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas64 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas14 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Kotvice Bird Observatory
Czechia
- 62Viewyas Score
- 68 kmFarthest ridge
- 78Peaks in view
- 233 mAltitude
Bezručova vyhlídka in Sedliště
Czechia · 20 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 244Peaks in view
- 371 mAltitude
Štramberská Trúba
Czechia · 13 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 88 kmFarthest ridge
- 162Peaks in view
- 451 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q112670931) · 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, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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