Czechia observation tower
Štěpánka
You can see 173 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 173 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).
- 173 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 539Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 949 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 539 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 July 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-westsets on an open horizon17%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-westsets on an open horizon20%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- 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
Štěpánka.
Štěpánka is an observation tower in Czechia, 949 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 173 km away, looking west.
539 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sněžka (1,603 m), 26 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Camping Jiskracampsite · 5.6 km · 4 within 10 km
- Pension Na Zalozneplace to stay · 0.9 km · 233 within 10 km
- Kořenovnearest town · 1.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KořenovBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Pardubice Airport (PED)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 86 km in a straight lineCar hire at PRG airport (Prague)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 kmBílá skála, BOROVSKÉ SKÁLY, Šulíkova skála and 15 more
- 26named peaks within 5 kmDlouhý Kopec, Novina, Dlouhá skála and 23 more
- 22cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmHarrachov, Čertova hora, Dolní stanice lanovky Leitner and 19 more
- 16marked trails within 3 kmPod Slovankou - Kořenov žst., [Č] Hejnice - Harrachov, [Ž] Sedlo pod zámky - Údolí Jizery and 13 more
- 53shelters and huts within 5 km
- 20car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmIC Desná, Informační centrum KRNAP, Infocentrum and 2 more
- 20restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmCamping Jiskra, Autokemp Zátiší and 2 more
- 233places to stay within 10 kmPension Na Zalozne, U Zvonku, Chata Panorama and 230 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 Štěpánka, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas151 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas3 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas29 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Štěpánka
Czechia
- 76Viewyas Score
- 173 kmFarthest ridge
- 539Peaks in view
- 949 mAltitude
Bramberk
Czechia · 11 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 150 kmFarthest ridge
- 463Peaks in view
- 782 mAltitude
Královka
Czechia · 16 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 151 kmFarthest ridge
- 586Peaks in view
- 858 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q9373865) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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