Germany canyon rim
Partnach Gorge
You can see 14 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 14 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).
- 14 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 72%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 22Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 945 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 22 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 July to October.
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-west76 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febsouth-west86 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest84 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest70 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maywest68 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Junnorth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Julnorth-west52 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest72 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest78 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octsouth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west82 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west84 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- 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
Partnach Gorge.
Gorge in Germany
Partnach Gorge is a canyon rim in Germany, 945 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 14 km away, looking north.
22 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kramerspitz (1,985 m), 8 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 72% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Camp am Wankcampsite · 4.8 km · 6 within 10 km
- Hotel Vier Jahreszeitenplace to stay · 3.7 km · 472 within 10 km
- Garmisch-Partenkirchennearest town · 3.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Garmisch-PartenkirchenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Innsbruck Airport (INN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 28 km in a straight lineCar hire at INN airport (Innsbruck)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
- 34other viewpoints within 5 kmBelvedere, Schachentor, Felsen-Kanzel and 31 more
- 29named peaks within 5 kmBernadeinkopf, Unterreidla, Steinbichel and 26 more
- 42cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmTalstation Hochalmbahn, Talstation Hausbergbahn, Talstation Eckbauerbahn and 39 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmAV Weg 842 (Kaelbersteig), AV Weg 841 (Schachenweg), AV Weg 870 (Bannholzweg) and 4 more
- 41shelters and huts within 5 kmKlinikum and 40 more
- 44car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmTourist Information, Skistadion
- 24restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmCamp am Wank, Camping Erlebnis Zugspitze, Camping Resort Zugspitze and 3 more
- 472places to stay within 10 kmHotel Vier Jahreszeiten, Wirtshaus Elmau, Schachenhaus and 469 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 Partnach Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas519 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas5 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas3 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas3 caves within 20 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.
Partnach Gorge
Germany
- 34Viewyas Score
- 14 kmFarthest ridge
- 22Peaks in view
- 945 mAltitude
Zugspitze
Germany · 11 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 2,536Peaks in view
- 2,926 mAltitude
AlpspiX
Germany · 6 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 320Peaks in view
- 2,006 mAltitude
Top of Tyrol
Austria · 54 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 771Peaks in view
- 3,148 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q453805) · 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, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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