Liechtenstein / Austria summit
Drei Schwestern
You can see 183 km from here, looking north.
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 183 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).
- 183 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 794Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,010 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 794 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon40%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- 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
Drei Schwestern.
Mountain in the Rätikon at the border Vorarlberg / Liechtenstein
Drei Schwestern is a summit in Liechtenstein, 2,010 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 183 km away, looking north.
794 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Wildspitze (3,768 m), 103 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
- Lagerplatz Duxcampsite · 3.7 km · 7 within 10 km
- Hotel Restaurant Weinstubeplace to stay · 3.5 km · 108 within 10 km
- Plankennearest town · 2.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PlankenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sankt Gallen Altenrhein Airport (ACH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 34 km in a straight lineCar hire at ACH airport (St. Gallen)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.
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
- 20other viewpoints within 5 kmMattlerjoch, Känzile, Wildschloss and 17 more
- 28named peaks within 5 kmKuhgrat, Galinakopf, Garselli-Turm 2 and 25 more
- 4cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 38marked trails within 3 kmZentralalpenweg 02, Kuegrat - Vaduz, Masescha - Schaan and 35 more
- 34shelters and huts within 5 kmPaulahütte and 33 more
- 42car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmLiechtenstein Center
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmLagerplatz Dux, Camping Werdenberg, Stellplatz Malbun P2, Triesenberg and 4 more
- 108places to stay within 10 kmHotel Restaurant Weinstube, Park-Hotel Sonnenhof, Jugendherberge Schaan-Vaduz and 105 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 Drei Schwestern, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas348 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Drei Schwestern
Liechtenstein
- 77Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 794Peaks in view
- 2,010 mAltitude
Grauspitz
Switzerland · 14 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 204 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,254Peaks in view
- 2,493 mAltitude
Gehrenberg Tower
Germany · 64 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,671Peaks in view
- 702 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q206798) · 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, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
The family
Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?
Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.
beaches
Find your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit 
lakes
Every lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountains
Every summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfalls
Every waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit 
islands
Every island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit 
rivers
Every river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyons
Every canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit 
caves
Every cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit 
dark skies
Where the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit 
viewpoints
Every viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatching
Every bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forests
Every forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit