France observation tower
Belvédère tower
You can see 156 km from here, looking south-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 156 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).
- 156 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 648Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 337 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 648 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Julnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest14 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- 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
Belvédère tower.
Observation tower near Mulhouse, Alsace, France
Belvédère tower is an observation tower in France, 337 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 156 km away, looking south-east.
648 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Finsteraarhorn (4,274 m), 145 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 upfree entry
- Camping municipal de l'Illcampsite · 1.6 km · 3 within 10 km
- Hôtel du Parcplace to stay · 1.8 km · 44 within 10 km
- Brunstattnearest town · 2.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BrunstattBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 20 km in a straight lineCar hire at BSL airport (Bâle / Mulhouse)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
- 22other viewpoints within 5 kmVue sur Mulhouse, Belle vue, Vue sur les Alpes and 19 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmWelschenberg, Lerchenberg, Hinterberg
- 24marked trails within 3 kmGR 532, Sentier de l'Ill, Sentier circulaire René Thomann - Tannenwald and 21 more
- 58shelters and huts within 5 kmAbri Alfred Schoen, Abri du Zuhrenhof and 56 more
- 837car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmOffice de Tourisme et des Congrès de Mulhouse et sa région, Office de tourisme
- 166restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmCamping municipal de l'Ill, Le Safary, Camping La Chaumiere
- 44places to stay within 10 kmHôtel du Parc, Berti Hotel Mulhouse Centre Gare, Le Relais de Brunstatt and 41 more
- 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 Belvédère tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas35 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas3 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Belvédère tower
France
- 77Viewyas Score
- 156 kmFarthest ridge
- 648Peaks in view
- 337 mAltitude
Hochblauen Observation Tower
Germany · 27 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 226 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,445Peaks in view
- 1,157 mAltitude
Feldberg
Germany · 52 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,545Peaks in view
- 1,490 mAltitude
Roßkopf Tower
Germany · 52 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 127 kmFarthest ridge
- 277Peaks in view
- 743 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2446494) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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