Austria observation tower
Moldaublick
You can see 176 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 176 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).
- 176 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 946Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,025 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 946 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon36%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon30%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west6 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
Moldaublick.
Observation tower in Ulrichsberg, Austria
Moldaublick is an observation tower in Austria, 1,025 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 176 km away, looking south-west.
946 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hoher Dachstein (2,995 m), 139 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Campingmöglichkeit beim Naturflussbadcampsite · 5.7 km · 16 within 10 km
- Adalberg Stifter Jugendherbergeplace to stay · 5.1 km · 68 within 10 km
- Ulrichsbergnearest town · 5.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in UlrichsbergBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- České Budějovice South Bohemian Airport (JCL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 43 km in a straight lineCar hire at LNZ airport (Linz)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 kmHochbuchetfelsen, Liebesfelsen, Stinglfelsen and 6 more
- 22named peaks within 5 kmBärenstein, Sulzberg, Sperrbühel and 19 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmBergstation Hochfichtbahn
- 14marked trails within 3 kmFalkensteinerweg, European long distance path E6 - Main route Austria, Nordwaldkammweg Klassisch and 11 more
- 3shelters and huts within 5 kmAlte Grenzpostenhütte
- 15car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmBöhmerwald Arena
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 16campsites within 10 kmCampingmöglichkeit beim Naturflussbad, Jenisov, Caravan Camping Horní Planá and 13 more
- 68places to stay within 10 kmAdalberg Stifter Jugendherberge, Almesberger, Hotel Bärnsteinhof and 65 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 Moldaublick, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas88 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas2 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.
Moldaublick
Austria
- 77Viewyas Score
- 176 kmFarthest ridge
- 946Peaks in view
- 1,025 mAltitude
Lipno Treetop Walkway
Czechia · 20 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 220 kmFarthest ridge
- 668Peaks in view
- 919 mAltitude
Observation Tower Burgstall
Austria · 29 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 189 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,076Peaks in view
- 603 mAltitude
Kraví hora (Novohradské hory, observation tower)
Czechia · 55 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 190 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,020Peaks in view
- 967 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1683872) · 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, 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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