Czechia observation tower
Vartovna observation tower
You can see 102 km from here, looking north-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 102 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).
- 102 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 449Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 646 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 449 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 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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- 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
Vartovna observation tower.
Vartovna observation tower is an observation tower in Czechia, 646 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 102 km away, looking north-west.
449 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Praděd (1,491 m), 104 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: 24/7 · ticket required
- Kemp Desnacampsite · 7.2 km · 6 within 10 km
- Hotel Sirákovplace to stay · 2.5 km · 29 within 10 km
- Liptálnearest town · 2.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in LiptálBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 49 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
- 3other viewpoints within 5 kmVyhlídka u hrušky, Vartovna
- 9named peaks within 5 kmNezdoby, Tanečnice, Vartovna and 6 more
- 13marked trails within 3 km[Č] Syrákov - Huslenky, [Ž] Kořené (rozc.) - Leskovec (žst.), [Ž] Pod Širokou - Prlov (bus) and 10 more
- 52shelters and huts within 5 km
- 20car parks within 3 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmKemp Desna, Bike fishing camp Semetin, veřejné tábořiště Pulčín and 3 more
- 29places to stay within 10 kmHotel Sirákov, Penzion Salis, Hospoda Kameňak and 26 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 Vartovna observation tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas91 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 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.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Vartovna observation tower
Czechia
- 69Viewyas Score
- 102 kmFarthest ridge
- 449Peaks in view
- 646 mAltitude
Bílé Karpaty
Czechia · 50 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 220 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,454Peaks in view
- 968 mAltitude
Viewpoint U jelena
Czechia · 45 km
- 68Viewyas Score
- 102 kmFarthest ridge
- 219Peaks in view
- 585 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11877489) · 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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