Belgium observation tower
Observatoire militaire de Pervyse
You can see 65 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 65 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).
- 65 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 26Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 26 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 from April to July.
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 sunset18%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- 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
Observatoire militaire de Pervyse.
Observatoire militaire de Pervyse is an observation tower in Belgium.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 65 km away, looking south-west.
26 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kemmelberg (154 m), 33 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to July.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- De IJzerhoevecampsite · 6.6 km · 21 within 10 km
- De Groenehaegheplace to stay · 2.9 km · 101 within 10 km
- Keiemnearest town · 6.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KeiemBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Ostend-Bruges International Airport (OST)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 km in a straight lineCar hire at LIL airport (Lesquin)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
- 6other viewpoints within 5 kmOnze-Lieve-Vrouwehoekje and 5 more
- 2marked trails within 3 kmGR 130 IJzer, Via Yprensis - hoofdtraject
- 8shelters and huts within 5 km
- 12car parks within 3 km
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 21campsites within 10 kmDe IJzerhoeve, Kompas Camping Nieuwpoort, Polderdyk and 18 more
- 101places to stay within 10 kmDe Groenehaeghe, 't Hof der Witte Damen, Schoorbakkehoeve and 98 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres 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 Observatoire militaire de Pervyse, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas3 forests and trees 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.
Observatoire militaire de Pervyse
Belgium
- 63Viewyas Score
- 65 kmFarthest ridge
- 26Peaks in view
- 2 mAltitude
White Cliffs of Dover
United Kingdom · 100 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 68 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 104 mAltitude
Shakespeare Cliff
United Kingdom · 105 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 67 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 65 mAltitude
Tour du Millénaire
Belgium · 191 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 30Peaks in view
- 503 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3068902) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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