Germany observation tower
Flatow Tower
You can see 53 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 53 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).
- 53 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 55Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 55 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 55 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west8 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
Flatow Tower.
Observation tower in Potsdam-Babelsberg
Flatow Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 55 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 53 km away, looking south-east.
55 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hagelberg (200 m), 49 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in September.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Sa,Su,PH 10:00-17:30 · ticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Kinder- und Jugendzeltplatz Bäkewiesecampsite · 5.0 km · 17 within 10 km
- Hotel zum Hofmalerplace to stay · 1.7 km · 177 within 10 km
- Potsdamnearest town · 1.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PotsdamBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 29 km in a straight lineCar hire at BER airport (Berlin)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
- 67other viewpoints within 5 kmVictoriahöhe, Generalseichen, Luisenhöhe and 64 more
- 23named peaks within 5 kmHirschberg, Böttcherberg, Klausberg and 20 more
- 19marked trails within 3 kmEuropäischer Fernwanderweg E10, Deutschland, Brandenburg, Fontaneweg F4, Jakobsweg Potsdam - Vehlen and 16 more
- 224shelters and huts within 5 kmChinesisches Parasol and 223 more
- 786car parks within 3 km
- 8visitor centres within 5 kmInformation Buga Park, Information Freundschaftsinsel, Neue Kultur Wege and 5 more
- 255restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 17campsites within 10 kmKinder- und Jugendzeltplatz Bäkewiese, Camping-Freunde Berlin, DCC-Campingplatz Kladow and 14 more
- 177places to stay within 10 kmHotel zum Hofmaler, Hotel am Großen Waisenhaus, Pension Sanssouci Holidays and 174 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 Flatow Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas135 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas19 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas13 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas7 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 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.
Flatow Tower
Germany
- 61Viewyas Score
- 53 kmFarthest ridge
- 55Peaks in view
- 55 mAltitude
Great Berlin Wheel
Germany · 20 km
- 61Viewyas Score
- 56 kmFarthest ridge
- 66Peaks in view
- 34 mAltitude
Müggel-Tower
Germany · 37 km
- 62Viewyas Score
- 59 kmFarthest ridge
- 82Peaks in view
- 89 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q64978208) · 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, 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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