Germany observation tower
Weißtannenturm
You can see 94 km from here, looking south-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 94 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).
- 94 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 223Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 138 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 223 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 sunset22%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- 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
Weißtannenturm.
Wooden observation tower in Kehl, Germany, next to the river Rhine
Weißtannenturm is an observation tower in Germany, 138 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 94 km away, looking south-west.
223 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Grand Ballon (1,424 m), 91 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 upHours in OpenStreetMap: "closed during meteorogical events like strong wind or frost"
- Campingpark Kehlcampsite · 0.4 km · 5 within 10 km
- Jugendherberge Kehlplace to stay · 0.1 km · 247 within 10 km
- Kehlnearest town · 0.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KehlBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Strasbourg Airport (SXB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 14 km in a straight lineCar hire at SXB airport (Strasbourg)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
- 7other viewpoints within 5 kmWeißtannenturm, Plateforme de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg, Vue sur Cathédrale de Strasbourg and 4 more
- 17marked trails within 3 kmRheinaueweg, Sentier Stanislas-Kléber, Kinzigtäler Jakobusweg and 14 more
- 424shelters and huts within 5 kmGrillhütte Eckartsweier, Homme de Fer, Place d'Islande and 421 more
- 486car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmOffice de tourisme Strasbourg, Point Coop - Café Deux-Rives, Tourist-Information and 1 more
- 105restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmCampingpark Kehl, Wohnmobilstellplatz Am Wasserturm, Camping de Strasbourg and 2 more
- 247places to stay within 10 kmJugendherberge Kehl, Rosengarten, Grieshabers Rebstock and 244 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 Weißtannenturm, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas29 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas9 birding sites within 25 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.
Weißtannenturm
Germany
- 67Viewyas Score
- 94 kmFarthest ridge
- 223Peaks in view
- 138 mAltitude
Eichberg Tower
Germany · 48 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 128 kmFarthest ridge
- 169Peaks in view
- 383 mAltitude
Büchenbronn Observation Tower
Germany · 68 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 158 kmFarthest ridge
- 320Peaks in view
- 614 mAltitude
Rehberg tower
Germany · 70 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 158 kmFarthest ridge
- 390Peaks in view
- 569 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q969029) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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