Czechia observation tower
Šibenice
You can see 120 km from here, looking south-east.
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 120 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).
- 120 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 215Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 374 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 215 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 in April and from August to 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-west12 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Augwest14 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- 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
Šibenice.
Šibenice is an observation tower in Czechia, 374 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 120 km away, looking south-east.
215 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Babia Góra (1,725 m), 133 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Ubytovna a camp Slunecnicecampsite · 8.7 km · 1 within 10 km
- Ubytování pro studenty - Opavaplace to stay · 5.9 km · 11 within 10 km
- Stěbořicenearest town · 2.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in StěbořiceBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 37 km in a straight lineCar hire at OSR airport (Mošnov)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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 km
- 1named peaks within 5 kmU Šibenice
- 3marked trails within 3 km[Z] Opava, Jaktař - Podhradí (bus), Via Czechia - Slezskem (3. Nízký Jeseník)
- 8shelters and huts within 5 km
- 9car parks within 3 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmUbytovna a camp Slunecnice
- 11places to stay within 10 kmUbytování pro studenty - Opava, Hotel Opava, Penzion nad stájí and 8 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres 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 Šibenice, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas40 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas7 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas1 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.
Šibenice
Czechia
- 72Viewyas Score
- 120 kmFarthest ridge
- 215Peaks in view
- 374 mAltitude
Rozhledna Hraniční vrch
Czechia · 27 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 156 kmFarthest ridge
- 298Peaks in view
- 533 mAltitude
Praděd
Czechia · 42 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 223 kmFarthest ridge
- 658Peaks in view
- 1,490 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q67130957) · 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, Darkskyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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