Germany observation tower
Parnass Tower
You can see 36 km from here, looking 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 36 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).
- 36 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 9Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 69 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 9 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 May.
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 sunset16%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- 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
Parnass Tower.
Observation tower in Plön
Parnass Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 69 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 36 km away, looking west.
9 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Bungsberg (168 m), 20 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Apr-Oct: 09:00-19:00 · free entry
- Ascheberger Parkplatzcampsite · 2.2 km · 26 within 10 km
- Hotel Altes Fährhausplace to stay · 0.9 km · 57 within 10 km
- Plönnearest town · 0.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PlönBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Lübeck Blankensee Airport (LBC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 45 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 kmLieblingsplatz der Kaiserin, Schlossgebiet, Biberhöhe and 6 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmFuchs-Berg, Wethkamp-Berg, Hohenlieths-Berg
- 16marked trails within 3 kmEuropäischer Fernwanderweg E6, Deutschland, Schleswig-Holstein, European Long distance path E1 - part Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Plöner PlanetenPfad and 13 more
- 14shelters and huts within 5 kmLieblingsplatz der Kaiserin, Siebenstern, Pavillon and 11 more
- 84car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Info Großer Plöner See
- 23restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 26campsites within 10 kmAscheberger Parkplatz, alter Wohnmobilhafen Spitzenort, Naturcamping Spitzenort and 23 more
- 57places to stay within 10 kmHotel Altes Fährhaus, Akademie am See, Ferienhaus am Behlersee / Beauty-Farm and 54 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 Parnass Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Lakeyas30 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas8 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Parnass Tower
Germany
- 55Viewyas Score
- 36 kmFarthest ridge
- 9Peaks in view
- 69 mAltitude
Hohwachter Flunder
Germany · 23 km
- 67Viewyas Score
- 53 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 0 mAltitude
Møns Klint
Denmark · 163 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 92 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 117 mAltitude
Lüneburg Water Tower
Germany · 102 km
- 49Viewyas Score
- 29 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 19 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1445619) · 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, Coastya, Lakeyas, Forestyas, 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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