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Top of Tyrol

You can see 140 km from here, looking south.

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 140 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.

73out of 100

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).

  • 140 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
  • 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 771Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 3,148 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 from July to October.

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.

  1. Jansouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  2. Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  3. Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  4. Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  5. Maynorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  6. Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  7. Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  9. Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  10. Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  11. Novsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  12. Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  • 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

Top of Tyrol.

Observation deck in the Stubai Alps, Tyrol

Top of Tyrol is an observation deck in Austria, 3,148 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 140 km away, looking south.

771 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Wildspitze (3,768 m), 21 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to October.

Top of Tyrol - Stubaier Gletscher
Smatteo499 · CC BY 4.0

Get there and stay

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.

Top of Tyrol seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 5other viewpoints within 5 kmHundsheim, Top of Tyrol, Fernaujoch and 2 more
  • 61named peaks within 5 kmWilde Leck, Schaufelspitze, Sonklarspitze - Cima di Malavalle and 58 more
  • 43cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmBergstation Eisgrat, Schaufeljoch, Bergstation Schaufeljoch and 40 more
  • 8marked trails within 3 kmZentralalpenweg 02, Wanderweg 102 - Stubai, Adlerweg Etappe 65 and 5 more
  • 5shelters and huts within 5 kmNotbiwak, Winterraum, Parkplatzshuttle and 2 more
  • 1visitor centres within 5 km
  • 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmCamping Sölden
  • 398places to stay within 10 kmHaus Waldesrand, Sölderhof, Bairlasshof and 395 more
  • car parks 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 Top of Tyrol, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas283 mountains within 25 km
Zuckerhütl3,507 m · 3.6 kmSchrankogel3,497 m · 7.6 kmRamolkogel3,549 m · 18 kmWildspitze3,768 m · 21 kmHinterer Brochkogel3,628 m · 22 kmSchalfkogel3,537 m · 23 kmWatzespitze3,532 m · 23 kmVorderer Brochkogel3,565 m · 23 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
WildspitzeBortle 2 · 21 kmHinterer BrochkogelBortle 2 · 22 kmHochvernagtspitzeBortle 2 · 26 kmFluchtkogelBortle 2 · 28 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Top Of Tyrol 01
Iswoar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Schaufeljoch-Gondelbahn Bergstation
Eiswind · CC BY 3.0
Stubai-Schaufeljochbahn-2
SchiDD · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Top of Tyrol

Austria

  • 73Viewyas Score
  • 140 kmFarthest ridge
  • 771Peaks in view
  • 3,148 mAltitude

Wildspitze

Austria · 21 km

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 245 kmFarthest ridge
  • 3,323Peaks in view
  • 3,733 mAltitude

See the guide

Zugspitze

Germany · 50 km

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 2,536Peaks in view
  • 2,926 mAltitude

See the guide

AlpspiX

Germany · 52 km

  • 71Viewyas Score
  • 183 kmFarthest ridge
  • 320Peaks in view
  • 2,006 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q94994776) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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