Germany scenic viewpoint
Cloef
You can see 50 km from here, looking 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 50 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).
- 50 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 33Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 395 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 33 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 in 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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augwest14 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- 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
Cloef.
Cloef is a scenic viewpoint in Germany, 395 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 50 km away, looking east.
33 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mont Donon (1,008 m), 119 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in September.
Get there and stay
- Rehaklinik Saarschleifecampsite · 0.6 km · 5 within 10 km
- Ferienhaus an der Cloefplace to stay · 0.7 km · 49 within 10 km
- Orscholznearest town · 1.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in OrscholzBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Luxembourg-Findel International Airport (LUX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 27 km in a straight lineCar hire at LUX airport (Luxembourg)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
- 31other viewpoints within 5 kmSaarschleife / Cloef, Saarblick, Orkelsfels and 28 more
- 11named peaks within 5 kmKeßlinger Berg, Herrgottstein, Eisenkopf and 8 more
- 14marked trails within 3 kmSaar-Hunsrück-Steig, Cloefpfad, Saar-Hunsrück-Steig Variante Trier and 11 more
- 36shelters and huts within 5 kmFünf Enkel-Hütte, Teufelssteinhütte and 34 more
- 36car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 km
- 15restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmRehaklinik Saarschleife, Wohnmobil Stellplatz "Das Bad" Merzig, Campingplatz Kanu-Club Merzig and 2 more
- 49places to stay within 10 kmFerienhaus an der Cloef, Buchnas Landhotel Saarschleife, Ferienwohnung Burgblick and 46 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 Cloef, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas85 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas11 birding sites within 25 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
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Cloef
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- 59Viewyas Score
- 50 kmFarthest ridge
- 33Peaks in view
- 395 mAltitude
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1102142) · 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, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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