Czechia observation tower
Bolt Tower
You can see 82 km from here, looking 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 82 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).
- 82 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 208Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 223 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 208 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 in April and from August 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 sunset19%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west6 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
Bolt Tower.
Bolt Tower is an observation tower in Czechia, 223 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 82 km away, looking west.
208 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Praděd (1,491 m), 80 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Camp Landek Parkcampsite · 5.4 km · 6 within 10 km
- Ubytovna Nerudova 23place to stay · 1.2 km · 71 within 10 km
- Ostravanearest town · 1.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in OstravaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 km in a straight lineCar hire at OSR airport (Mošnov)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
- 14other viewpoints within 5 kmHalda Ema, Bolt Tower, Výhled na celou Ostravu and 11 more
- 4named peaks within 5 kmhalda Ema, 306, Přívozská halda and 1 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmOkružní trasa A Podroužka, NS Slezská Ostrava, Cesta stínu and 4 more
- 111shelters and huts within 5 kmPřístřešek Bělský les and 110 more
- 746car parks within 3 km
- 8visitor centres within 5 kmOIS, Infocentrum Dolních Vítkovic, OSTRAVAINFO!!! and 5 more
- 202restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmCamp Landek Park, Sdružení naturistů Ostrava, jurek and 3 more
- 71places to stay within 10 kmUbytovna Nerudova 23, Hotel Maria, Quality Hotel Ostrava City and 68 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 Bolt Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas36 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas29 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 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.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Bolt Tower
Czechia
- 65Viewyas Score
- 82 kmFarthest ridge
- 208Peaks in view
- 223 mAltitude
Viewing platform in ZOO Ostrava
Czechia · 5 km
- 68Viewyas Score
- 95 kmFarthest ridge
- 233Peaks in view
- 271 mAltitude
Bezručova vyhlídka in Sedliště
Czechia · 13 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 244Peaks in view
- 371 mAltitude
Observation tower in Pogrzebień
Poland · 27 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 111 kmFarthest ridge
- 348Peaks in view
- 286 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q30249466) · 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, Darkskyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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