Czechia observation tower
Vyhlidka Karla IV.
You can see 24 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 24 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).
- 24 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 18Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 499 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 18 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-west18 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Febsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest18 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest24 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west18 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
Vyhlidka Karla IV..
Observation tower in Czech Republic
Vyhlidka Karla IV. is an observation tower in Czechia, 499 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 24 km away, looking north-west.
18 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Klínovec (1,244 m), 21 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% 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.
- Camp Varrycampsite · 1.6 km · 16 within 10 km
- Parkhotel Richmondplace to stay · 0.8 km · 197 within 10 km
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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
- 45other viewpoints within 5 kmAltán Camera Obscura, Altán u Tří Křížů, Kazatelna and 42 more
- 17named peaks within 5 kmDoubská hora, Bukový vrch, Výšina přátelství and 14 more
- 13cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmLanovka Diana, Lanová dráha Imperial and 11 more
- 27marked trails within 3 km[Ž] Karlovy Vary - Nejdek, [Č] Karlovy Vary - Kadaň, [M] Karlovy Vary - Toužim (žst) and 24 more
- 119shelters and huts within 5 kmchata Rusalka, Altán u Vojty, chata U Myslivny and 116 more
- 785car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmInformační středisko Karlovarského kraje, Infocentrum Císařské Lázně
- 108restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 16campsites within 10 kmCamp Varry, Klub vodáků Karlovy Vary, Camping Březová and 13 more
- 197places to stay within 10 kmParkhotel Richmond, Chebský dvůr, Hotel Královská vila and 194 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 Vyhlidka Karla IV., and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas81 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas45 forests and trees within 15 km
Cascadyas7 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.
Vyhlidka Karla IV.
Czechia
- 53Viewyas Score
- 24 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 499 mAltitude
Goethova vyhlídka
Czechia · 2 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 82 kmFarthest ridge
- 90Peaks in view
- 642 mAltitude
Rozhledna Diana
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- 64Viewyas Score
- 77 kmFarthest ridge
- 80Peaks in view
- 556 mAltitude
Vochlice lookout tower
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- 67Viewyas Score
- 99 kmFarthest ridge
- 146Peaks in view
- 446 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11087180) · 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, 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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