Austria scenic viewpoint
Gacher Blick
You can see 48 km from here, looking north-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 48 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).
- 48 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 89%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 100Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,593 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 100 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 October.
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-west64 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febsouth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest30 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest18 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Junnorth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Julnorth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest26 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest24 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octwest40 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west54 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west60 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- 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
Gacher Blick.
Viewpoint at the Pillerhöhe in Tyrol
Gacher Blick is a scenic viewpoint in Austria, 1,593 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 48 km away, looking north-east.
100 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Parseierspitze (3,036 m), 16 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 89% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Aktiv Camping Prutzcampsite · 4.1 km · 6 within 10 km
- Neu Amerikaplace to stay · 3.3 km · 610 within 10 km
- Prutznearest town · 3.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PrutzBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Innsbruck Airport (INN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 54 km in a straight lineCar hire at INN airport (Innsbruck)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
- 16other viewpoints within 5 kmGacher Blick, Krahberg, Piller Kreuz and 13 more
- 14named peaks within 5 kmGlanderspitze, Wannejöchl, Kreuzjöchel and 11 more
- 12cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmWeinbergbahn, Rifenal Lift, Mittelstation and 9 more
- 4marked trails within 3 kmZentralalpenweg 02A, Rundwanderweg Harbe, Aifneralm Wanderweg and 1 more
- 13shelters and huts within 5 kmHirtenunterstand Meranzköpfl and 12 more
- 16car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmInfobüro Prutz, Infobüro Fiss
- 7restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmAktiv Camping Prutz, Mountain Camp, Camping Dreiländereck and 3 more
- 610places to stay within 10 kmNeu Amerika, Galflun Alm, Gasthof Gemse and 607 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 Gacher Blick, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas268 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas7 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Gacher Blick
Austria
- 52Viewyas Score
- 48 kmFarthest ridge
- 100Peaks in view
- 1,593 mAltitude
Wildspitze
Austria · 30 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 245 kmFarthest ridge
- 3,323Peaks in view
- 3,733 mAltitude
Zugspitze
Germany · 42 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 2,536Peaks in view
- 2,926 mAltitude
Top of Tyrol
Austria · 37 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 771Peaks in view
- 3,148 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q42328268) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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