Germany / Austria summit
Zugspitze
You can see 249 km from here, looking north-east.
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 249 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).
- 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2,536Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,926 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2,536 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 October.
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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Junnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Julnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon32%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- 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
Zugspitze.
Highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains (Eastern Alps)
Zugspitze is a summit in Germany, 2,926 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking north-east.
2,536 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Grossglockner (3,798 m), 135 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- 5-Sterne-Camping Zugspitz Resortcampsite · 3.5 km · 11 within 10 km
- Knorrhütteplace to stay · 2.3 km · 489 within 10 km
- Ehrwaldnearest town · 5.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in EhrwaldBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Innsbruck Airport (INN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 32 km in a straight lineCar hire at INN airport (Innsbruck)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
- 32other viewpoints within 5 kmTunnelfenster, Partnach Ursprung, Eibseeblick and 29 more
- 52named peaks within 5 kmZugspitze, Schneefernerkopf, Südliche Wetterspitze and 49 more
- 39cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmBergstation Alpspitzbahn, Sonnenkar, Wetterwandeckbahn and 36 more
- 14marked trails within 3 kmAV Weg 801, AV Weg 815 (Gaistal - Gatterl - Knorrhütte), Nordalpenweg 01 and 11 more
- 12shelters and huts within 5 kmWankle, Jubiläumsgrat-Biwakschachtel, Waxensteinhütte and 9 more
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmTourismus Information, Rezeption
- 10restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 11campsites within 10 km5-Sterne-Camping Zugspitz Resort, Camping Dr.Lauth, Camping Biberhof and 8 more
- 489places to stay within 10 kmKnorrhütte, Eriro, Höllentaleingangshütte and 486 more
- car parks within 3 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 Zugspitze, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas486 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Zugspitze
Germany
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 2,536Peaks in view
- 2,926 mAltitude
AlpspiX
Germany · 5 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 320Peaks in view
- 2,006 mAltitude
Top of Tyrol
Austria · 50 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 771Peaks in view
- 3,148 mAltitude
Wildspitze
Austria · 60 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 245 kmFarthest ridge
- 3,323Peaks in view
- 3,733 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3375) · 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, Birdyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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