Austria observation tower
Pyramidenkogel Tower
You can see 104 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 104 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).
- 104 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 309Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 846 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 309 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 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-west22 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Febwest14 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Julnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- 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
Pyramidenkogel Tower.
Observation tower on the Pyramidenkogel in Carinthia, Austria
Pyramidenkogel Tower is an observation tower in Austria, 846 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 104 km away, looking west.
309 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Triglav (2,864 m), 35 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Su 09:00-21:00Official site↗
- Camping Westcampsite · 2.4 km · 24 within 10 km
- Appartementhaus Fischerhütteplace to stay · 2.3 km · 293 within 10 km
- Maria Wörthnearest town · 1.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Maria WörthBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Klagenfurt Airport (KLU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 km in a straight lineCar hire at KLU airport (Klagenfurt am Wörthersee)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
- 18other viewpoints within 5 kmAussicht West, Hohe Gloriette, Niedere Gloriette and 15 more
- 12named peaks within 5 kmPirkerkogel, Dobeiner Wand, Windischberg and 9 more
- 22marked trails within 3 kmWörthersee Rundwanderweg, Marienpilgerweg, Pyramidenkogel-Runde and 19 more
- 8shelters and huts within 5 kmMusikpavillon and 7 more
- 98car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmTouristeninformation, Tourismusbüro Techelsberg, Tourismusbüro Pörtschach and 2 more
- 46restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 24campsites within 10 kmCamping West, Camping Hafnersee, Strandcamping Nord and 21 more
- 293places to stay within 10 kmAppartementhaus Fischerhütte, Haus Ina, Haus Lechleitner and 290 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 Pyramidenkogel Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas116 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas6 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 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.
Pyramidenkogel Tower
Austria
- 68Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 309Peaks in view
- 846 mAltitude
Stol / Hochstuhl
Slovenia · 20 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,326Peaks in view
- 2,193 mAltitude
Triglav
Slovenia · 35 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,687Peaks in view
- 2,794 mAltitude
Hoher Dachstein
Austria · 105 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 215 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,513Peaks in view
- 2,828 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q780424) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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