Germany observation tower
Lüneburg Water Tower
You can see 29 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 29 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).
- 29 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 19 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 3 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.
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 sunset19%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- 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
Lüneburg Water Tower.
Tower in Lüneburg, Germany
Lüneburg Water Tower is an observation tower in Germany.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 29 km away, looking north.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Wilseder Berg (169 m), 33 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Su 10:00-19:00 · ticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Sülzwiesencampsite · 1.1 km · 5 within 10 km
- Rote Rosenplace to stay · 0.1 km · 72 within 10 km
- Lüneburgnearest town · 0.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in LüneburgBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 51 km in a straight lineCar hire at HAM airport (Hamburg)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
- 9other viewpoints within 5 kmLoreley and 8 more
- 8named peaks within 5 kmLüneburger Kalkberg, Butterberg, Schwarzer Berg and 5 more
- 5marked trails within 3 kmPastor-Bode-Weg, Kultur-Findlinge, Jakobsweg Via Scandinavica, Niedersachsen and 2 more
- 36shelters and huts within 5 kmHüttentreff and 35 more
- 585car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Information Lüneburg
- 148restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmSülzwiesen, Rote Schleuse, Wohnmobilstellplatz Adendorf and 2 more
- 72places to stay within 10 kmRote Rosen, Alt-Lüneburger Kutscherstube, Zum Roten Tore and 69 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 Lüneburg Water Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas82 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 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.
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Germany
- 49Viewyas Score
- 29 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 19 mAltitude
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- 141Peaks in view
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- 737Peaks in view
- 1,138 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q824657) · 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, Darkskyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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