Croatia summit
Risnjak
You can see 249 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 249 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).
- 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 14%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 290Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,491 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 290 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-westsets on an open horizon24%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon25%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon32%
- Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maywest40 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Julnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Augwest28 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon33%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- 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
Risnjak.
Mountain in Croatia
Risnjak is a summit in Croatia, 1,491 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 14% of the horizon.
290 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Triglav (2,864 m), 122 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Kamp Park - Crni Lugcampsite · 5.6 km · 3 within 10 km
- Schlosserov domplace to stay · 0.2 km · 11 within 10 km
- Podhumnearest town · 12 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PodhumBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Rijeka Airport (RJK)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 24 km in a straight lineCar hire at RJK airport (Rijeka)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
- 8other viewpoints within 5 kmVela Pliš, Treska, Mlični vrh and 5 more
- 45named peaks within 5 kmSnježnik, Veliki Risnjak, Radeševo and 42 more
- 14cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 12marked trails within 3 kmGoranski planinarski put, Riječka planinarska obilaznica (RPO), Nacionalni park Risnjak and 9 more
- 3shelters and huts within 5 kmDom Snježnik
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmNational Park Risnjak, Goranski sportski centar - Platak
- 3campsites within 10 kmKamp Park - Crni Lug, Robinzonski smještaj Hrib, Kamp Lokve
- 11places to stay within 10 kmSchlosserov dom, Kuća Lazac, Planinarski dom "Sušak" and 8 more
- restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Risnjak, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas33 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Risnjak
Croatia
- 84Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 290Peaks in view
- 1,491 mAltitude
Triglav
Slovenia · 122 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,687Peaks in view
- 2,794 mAltitude
Stol / Hochstuhl
Slovenia · 117 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,326Peaks in view
- 2,193 mAltitude
Ivanšćica
Croatia · 142 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 236 kmFarthest ridge
- 402Peaks in view
- 965 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1519978) · 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, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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