Luxembourg scenic viewpoint
Pfaffenthal Panoramic Elevator
You can see 13 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 13 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).
- 13 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 312 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
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 in 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-west14 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest16 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest16 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augwest14 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest18 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Octwest18 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- 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
Pfaffenthal Panoramic Elevator.
Public elevator in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Pfaffenthal Panoramic Elevator is a scenic viewpoint in Luxembourg, 312 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 13 km away, looking north.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in September.
Get there and stay
- Kockelscheuercampsite · 5.1 km · 5 within 10 km
- Hôtel Domusplace to stay · 0.7 km · 98 within 10 km
- Pfaffenthalnearest town · 0.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PfaffenthalBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Luxembourg-Findel International Airport (LUX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at LUX airport (Luxembourg)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
- 65other viewpoints within 5 kmBock, Hammer Dällchen, Ravelin Pâté and 62 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmGoldbierg, Zapesheckerbierg
- 16cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmA, B and 14 more
- 27marked trails within 3 kmCity Promenade, Circuit Vauban, Jakobsweg Luxemburg and 24 more
- 180shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1,212car parks within 3 km
- 6visitor centres within 5 kmCity Shopping info point, Visitor Entrance, InfoBus and 3 more
- 475restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmKockelscheuer, Camping Bon Accueil Alzingen, Centre de Formation et d'Animation Neihaischen and 2 more
- 98places to stay within 10 kmHôtel Domus, Hôtel des Ducs, Christophe Colomb and 95 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 Pfaffenthal Panoramic Elevator, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas10 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas1 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.
Pfaffenthal Panoramic Elevator
Luxembourg
- 43Viewyas Score
- 13 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 312 mAltitude
Wildenburg Castle
Germany · 83 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 145 kmFarthest ridge
- 367Peaks in view
- 664 mAltitude
Idarkopfturm
Germany · 86 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 160 kmFarthest ridge
- 574Peaks in view
- 754 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q25583505) · 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, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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