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Bear's Head viewing platform

You can see 37 km from here, looking east.

61Viewyas Score

ViewpointSunsetSea view360°

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 37 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.

61out of 100

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).

  • 37 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 31%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 30 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 3 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.

Lapnugario kalnas61 m · 9.6 km · southVecekrugas Dune67 m · 33 km · southUrbas51 m · 38 km · south

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 May to June.

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.

  1. Jansouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset11%
  2. Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset14%
  3. Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  4. Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  5. Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  6. Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  7. Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  8. Augnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  9. Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  10. Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  11. Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset15%
  12. Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset11%
  • 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

Bear's Head viewing platform.

Scenic viewpoint in Neringa, Lithuania

Bear's Head viewing platform is a scenic viewpoint in Lithuania, 30 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 37 km away, looking east.

The sea fills 31% of the horizon.

3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Urbas (51 m), 38 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from May to June.

Meškos Galvos kopa, rozhledna, Neringa, Litva 01
Fry72, Karel Frydrýšek · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Bear's Head viewing platformGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Bear's Head viewing platformBooking.comSee prices Car hire at PLQ airport (Palanga)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Bear's Head viewing platform seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 5other viewpoints within 5 kmLedų ragas, Hageno kalnas, Neringos kalnas and 2 more
  • 3named peaks within 5 kmHageno kalnas, I. Simonaitytės kalnas, kopa Meškos Galva
  • 3marked trails within 3 kmŠv. Jokūbo kelias (Lietuva), E9 section 66: Juodkrantė – Klaipėda, E9 section 73: Dreverna – Klaipėda
  • 7shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 21car parks within 3 km
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 47places to stay within 10 kmFortūna, Vėtra, Ruta Hotel and 44 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Bear's Head viewing platform, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Hagen's height · 4.5 kmLapnugario kalnas61 m · 9.6 kmThe Dutchman's Cap · 18 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Klaipeda thick linden · 6.4 kmBotanical Garden of Klaipėda University · 12 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Meškos Galvos kopa, rozhledna, Neringa, Litva 02
Fry72, Karel Frydrýšek · CC BY-SA 4.0
Alksnynės kontrolės postas Kuršių Nerijoje
Vilensija · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rodyklė „Burės“ su vėtrungėmis, Smiltynė
Vilensija · CC BY-SA 3.0

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  • 3Peaks in view
  • 30 mAltitude

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q116265352) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Forestyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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