Slovakia observation tower
Observation tower Hradová
You can see 96 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 96 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).
- 96 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 33Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 455 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 33 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest16 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Maynorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Sepwest18 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- 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
Observation tower Hradová.
Observation tower in Košice
Observation tower Hradová is an observation tower in Slovakia, 455 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 96 km away, looking south-west.
33 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Stoj (1,681 m), 144 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Mar 1-Nov 30 00:00-24:00; Dec 1-Feb 29 off · free entryOfficial site↗
- Camp Košice - Route E58campsite · 8.3 km · 2 within 10 km
- Štadiónplace to stay · 2.4 km · 108 within 10 km
- Kavečanynearest town · 2.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KavečanyBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Košice International Airport (KSC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at KSC airport (Košice)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
- 15other viewpoints within 5 kmVyhliadkový mostík, Vyhliadka u Stegosaura, Vyhliadková veža and 12 more
- 8named peaks within 5 kmHradová, Viničná, Čečatová and 5 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 17marked trails within 3 kmEuropean long distance path E8 - part Slovakia, Dreviny, Rudohorská 100 and 14 more
- 166shelters and huts within 5 km
- 595car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmInformačné centrum mesta Košice, Regionálny informačný bod, Turistický informačný bod and 2 more
- 34restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmCamp Košice - Route E58, Caravan
- 108places to stay within 10 kmŠtadión, City Residence, Penzión Grand and 105 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 Observation tower Hradová, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas48 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 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.
Observation tower Hradová
Slovakia
- 67Viewyas Score
- 96 kmFarthest ridge
- 33Peaks in view
- 455 mAltitude
Gerlachovský štít
Slovakia · 92 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 511Peaks in view
- 2,584 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q12778892) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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