Austria observation deck
5 Fingers
You can see 199 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 199 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).
- 199 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 517Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,987 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 517 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-west38 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon30%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon24%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octwest12 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- 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
5 Fingers.
Observation deck
5 Fingers is an observation deck in Austria, 1,987 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 199 km away, looking north-west.
517 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hoher Dachstein (2,995 m), 9 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Camping am Seecampsite · 2.6 km · 5 within 10 km
- Olympiahütteplace to stay · 0.6 km · 76 within 10 km
- Bad Ausseenearest town · 11 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Bad AusseeBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Salzburg Airport (SZG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 59 km in a straight lineCar hire at SZG airport (Salzburg)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
- 26other viewpoints within 5 kmKrippenstein, Wasserfallwand, Goaßerbankerl and 23 more
- 52named peaks within 5 kmKrippenstein, Napfenkogel, Eisjoch and 49 more
- 20cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 24marked trails within 3 kmKarstlehrpfad, Wanderweg 661, Heilbronnerweg and 21 more
- 26shelters and huts within 5 kmJagdhuette, Ausseer Landfriedalm, Unterstand (offen) and 23 more
- 18car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmTourismusbüro & Kofferdepot Hallstatt and 3 more
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmCamping am See, Wohnmobilstellplätze Freibad Winkl/Obertraun, Wohnmobilstellplatz Obertraun and 2 more
- 76places to stay within 10 kmOlympiahütte, Pension Schober, Haus Alpenrose and 73 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 5 Fingers, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas437 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas8 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas6 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.
5 Fingers
Austria
- 74Viewyas Score
- 199 kmFarthest ridge
- 517Peaks in view
- 1,987 mAltitude
Hoher Dachstein
Austria · 9 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 215 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,513Peaks in view
- 2,828 mAltitude
Feuerpalven
Germany · 53 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 97Peaks in view
- 1,726 mAltitude
Baum mitten in der Welt
Austria · 66 km
- 70Viewyas Score
- 111 kmFarthest ridge
- 484Peaks in view
- 487 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q245432) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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