Germany scenic viewpoint
Wilhelmsblick
You can see 4 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 4 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).
- 4 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 88%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 353 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
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 in 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-west38 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febsouth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Marwest26 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest42 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Maynorth-west50 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west58 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Julnorth-west54 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Augwest48 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Sepwest32 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Octwest22 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- 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
Wilhelmsblick.
Wilhelmsblick is a scenic viewpoint in Germany, 353 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 4 km away, looking south.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 88% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in September.
Get there and stay
- Reiterhof an der Talsperrecampsite · 4.2 km · 15 within 10 km
- Pension Wildsteinplace to stay · 0.5 km · 160 within 10 km
- Thalenearest town · 5.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ThaleBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Erfurt-Weimar Airport (ERF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 83 km in a straight lineCar hire at LEJ airport (Schkeuditz)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
- 66other viewpoints within 5 kmBrockenblick, Hexentanzplatz, La Viershöhe and 63 more
- 46named peaks within 5 kmKahlenberg, Großer Dambachskopf, Theaterfelsen and 43 more
- 5cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmHarzbob, Bergstation Kabinenbahn Hexentanzplatz, Talstation Kabinenbahn Hexentanzplatz and 2 more
- 32marked trails within 3 kmHarzer-Hexen-Stieg, Harzklub-Weg 51E, Brunhildenstieg and 29 more
- 74shelters and huts within 5 kmSchutzhütte am Krugberg, Hütte Schreckental, An der Falkenklippe and 71 more
- 32car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmInformationszentrum Rappbodetalsperre, Bodetal-Information Friedrichsbrunn, Bodetal-Information Thale and 1 more
- 10restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 15campsites within 10 kmReiterhof an der Talsperre, Wohnmobilparkplatz Am Bodetal, Reisemobilstellplatz "Am Forellenteich" and 12 more
- 160places to stay within 10 kmPension Wildstein, Ferienhaus Popp, Zum Harzer Jodlermeister and 157 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 Wilhelmsblick, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas378 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas6 birding sites within 25 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Wilhelmsblick
Germany
- 34Viewyas Score
- 4 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 353 mAltitude
Brocken
Germany · 26 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 225 kmFarthest ridge
- 737Peaks in view
- 1,138 mAltitude
Joseph Cross
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- 557Peaks in view
- 583 mAltitude
Wilhelm Raabe Tower
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- 69Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 83Peaks in view
- 411 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2043150) · 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, Canyonyas, 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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