Germany observation tower
Wanne Observation Tower
You can see 181 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 181 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).
- 181 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 878Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 780 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 878 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 sunset20%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west12 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
Wanne Observation Tower.
Observation tower in Villingen
Wanne Observation Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 780 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 181 km away, looking south.
878 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Säntis (2,501 m), 111 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upfree entry
- Wohnmobilstellplatz Hallenbad Villingencampsite · 2.2 km · 19 within 10 km
- Hotel Brigachplace to stay · 1.1 km · 78 within 10 km
- Villingen-Schwenningennearest town · 1.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Villingen-SchwenningenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Zürich Airport (ZRH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 67 km in a straight lineCar hire at ZRH airport (Zurich)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
- 12other viewpoints within 5 kmAussichtsturm Wanne, Uhufelsen, Aussichtsturm Hubenloch and 9 more
- 9named peaks within 5 kmHohe Mark, Wieselsberg, Tonisbühl and 6 more
- 49marked trails within 3 kmOstweg, Hochschwarzwald-Jakobusweg, Main-Neckar-Rhein-Weg and 46 more
- 40shelters and huts within 5 kmNatzental Hütte and 39 more
- 496car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmHaus des Gastes, Tourist Info (Office), Tourist Info
- 73restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 19campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplatz Hallenbad Villingen, Jugendzeltplatz Villingen-Schwenningen, Kienzlewiesen in Schwenningen and 16 more
- 78places to stay within 10 kmHotel Brigach, Hotel Bären, Hotel Romäus and 75 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 Wanne Observation Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas80 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Wanne Observation Tower
Germany
- 77Viewyas Score
- 181 kmFarthest ridge
- 878Peaks in view
- 780 mAltitude
Lemberg Tower
Germany · 23 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 228 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,110Peaks in view
- 1,020 mAltitude
Hochfirst Tower
Germany · 28 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,338Peaks in view
- 1,197 mAltitude
Knopfmacherfelsen
Germany · 35 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 158 kmFarthest ridge
- 843Peaks in view
- 781 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q780443) · 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, Birdyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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