Germany observation tower
Vitra Slide Tower
You can see 75 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 75 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).
- 75 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 114Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 273 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 114 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 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- 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
Vitra Slide Tower.
Observation tower in Weil am Rhein
Vitra Slide Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 273 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 75 km away, looking north-west.
114 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Grand Ballon (1,424 m), 51 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Wohnmobilstellplatz Laguna Badeland - Weil am Rheincampsite · 1.8 km · 11 within 10 km
- Schlafstadtplace to stay · 2.7 km · 176 within 10 km
- Weil am Rheinnearest town · 1.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Weil am RheinBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 7 km in a straight lineCar hire at BSL airport (Bâle / Mulhouse)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
- 14other viewpoints within 5 kmHornfelsen, St. Chrischona, Foto-Spot Dreiländereck and 11 more
- 6named peaks within 5 kmHünerberg, Tüllinger Berg, Schädelberg and 3 more
- 74marked trails within 3 kmWestweg (Westliche Variante), Markgräfler Wiiwegli, Rheinaueweg and 71 more
- 226shelters and huts within 5 kmHornfelsenhütte, S'Hüttli and 224 more
- 531car parks within 3 km
- 6visitor centres within 5 kmDouane Suisse de Saint-Louis Bourgfelden - Basel Stadt, Touristinformation, Office de Tourisme du Pays de Saint-Louis-Huningue and 3 more
- 142restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 11campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplatz Laguna Badeland - Weil am Rhein, Wohnmobilparkplatz Bäumlihofstrasse, Wohnmobilstellplatz Lörrach and 8 more
- 176places to stay within 10 kmSchlafstadt, Das Gästehaus Eimeldingen, Zum Kranz and 173 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Vitra Slide Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas47 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas3 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Vitra Slide Tower
Germany
- 63Viewyas Score
- 75 kmFarthest ridge
- 114Peaks in view
- 273 mAltitude
Hochblauen Observation Tower
Germany · 21 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 226 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,445Peaks in view
- 1,157 mAltitude
Belvédère tower
France · 25 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 156 kmFarthest ridge
- 648Peaks in view
- 337 mAltitude
Feldberg
Germany · 42 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,545Peaks in view
- 1,490 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q17278435) · 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, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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