Austria scenic viewpoint
Himmelhof
You can see 128 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 128 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).
- 128 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 93%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 171Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 360 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 171 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 August.
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-west68 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Febsouth-west72 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest78 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Aprwest86 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Maywest90 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Junwest94 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Julwest92 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest88 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Sepwest80 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octsouth-west72 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Novsouth-west72 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west66 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- 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
Himmelhof.
Himmelhof is a scenic viewpoint in Austria, 360 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 128 km away, looking north-east.
171 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Velká Javořina (970 m), 128 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 93% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in August.
Get there and stay
- Wohnmobilabstellplatz MICAMPA Wienerwaldcampsite · 2.4 km · 4 within 10 km
- Kyriad Vienna Altmannsdorfplace to stay · 5.8 km · 517 within 10 km
- Penzingnearest town · 1.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PenzingBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Vienna International Airport (VIE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 25 km in a straight lineCar hire at VIE airport (Vienna)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
- 34other viewpoints within 5 kmPanorama Willhelminenberg, Wiener Blick, Panorama Terrace and 31 more
- 41named peaks within 5 kmWolfersberg, Hornauskogel, Satzberg and 38 more
- 22marked trails within 3 kmStadtwanderweg 4a - Ottakring, Stadtwanderweg 4 - Jubiläumswarte, Jakobsweg Wien and 19 more
- 459shelters and huts within 5 kmSchuhmeierplatz and 458 more
- 405car parks within 3 km
- 6visitor centres within 5 kmSchönbrunn - Meiereitor, Maria-Theresien-Tor and 4 more
- 121restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilabstellplatz MICAMPA Wienerwald, MICAMPA Wien Wienerwald, Reisemobil-Stellplatz Wien and 1 more
- 517places to stay within 10 kmKyriad Vienna Altmannsdorf, Mercure Hotel Raphael Wien, Believe It Or Not and 514 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 Himmelhof, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas266 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas10 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas8 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Himmelhof
Austria
- 70Viewyas Score
- 128 kmFarthest ridge
- 171Peaks in view
- 360 mAltitude
Wienerblick
Austria · 1 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 148 kmFarthest ridge
- 267Peaks in view
- 452 mAltitude
Habsburgwarte
Austria · 9 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 137 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,091Peaks in view
- 534 mAltitude
Wiener Riesenrad
Austria · 11 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 85 kmFarthest ridge
- 287Peaks in view
- 164 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1619119) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, 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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