Czechia observation tower
Hněvín Castle
You can see 78 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 78 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).
- 78 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 141Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 391 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 141 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 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 sunset17%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwest18 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augwest18 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
Hněvín Castle.
Castle
Hněvín Castle is an observation tower in Czechia, 391 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 78 km away, looking north-east.
141 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Klínovec (1,244 m), 49 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Kemp - tábořiště Matyldacampsite · 1.0 km · 4 within 10 km
- Hotel Širákplace to stay · 0.8 km · 14 within 10 km
- Mostnearest town · 1.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MostBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Karlovy Vary Airport (KLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 62 km in a straight lineCar hire at PRG airport (Prague)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
- 15other viewpoints within 5 kmrozhledna Hněvín and 14 more
- 7named peaks within 5 kmHněvín, Ressl, Široký vrch and 4 more
- 8marked trails within 3 kmNS Napouštění jezera Most, NS Ressl, Mostecký okruh and 5 more
- 71shelters and huts within 5 km
- 290car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 45restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmKemp - tábořiště Matylda, Kemp Kyselka, Autokemp and 1 more
- 14places to stay within 10 kmHotel Širák, Domino, Rezidence Bělehradská and 11 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 Hněvín Castle, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas112 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas6 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 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.
Hněvín Castle
Czechia
- 64Viewyas Score
- 78 kmFarthest ridge
- 141Peaks in view
- 391 mAltitude
Oberbärenburg Observation Tower
Germany · 31 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 138 kmFarthest ridge
- 476Peaks in view
- 750 mAltitude
Doubravská hora Castle
Czechia · 21 km
- 63Viewyas Score
- 76 kmFarthest ridge
- 104Peaks in view
- 391 mAltitude
Observation tower in Lhotka u Berouna
Czechia · 67 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 145 kmFarthest ridge
- 599Peaks in view
- 468 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1012363) · 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, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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