Austria summit
Hoher Dachstein
You can see 215 km from here, looking north-west.
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 215 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).
- 215 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,513Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,828 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1,513 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon30%
- Maynorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Junnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Julnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon33%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- 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
Hoher Dachstein.
Mountain in the Dachstein Massif at the border Upper Austria / Styria
Hoher Dachstein is a summit in Austria, 2,828 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 215 km away, looking north-west.
1,513 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Grossglockner (3,798 m), 82 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Camping Dachsteincampsite · 5.4 km · 11 within 10 km
- Berghotel Türlwandplace to stay · 3.0 km · 474 within 10 km
- Ramsau am Dachsteinnearest town · 7.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Ramsau am DachsteinBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Salzburg Airport (SZG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 57 km in a straight lineCar hire at SZG airport (Salzburg)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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmSkywalk, Panoramabankerl Brandriedel, Treppe ins Nichts and 10 more
- 80named peaks within 5 kmHoher Dachstein, Landfriedstein, Dachsteinwarte and 77 more
- 10cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmOberfeld and 9 more
- 38marked trails within 3 kmSalzburger Almenweg, Nordalpenweg 01, Dachstein Westgrat and 35 more
- 2shelters and huts within 5 kmPostenhütte Mitterstein
- 8car parks within 3 km
- 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 11campsites within 10 kmCamping Dachstein, Campingplatz Ramsau Beach, Camping Klausner-Höll and 8 more
- 474places to stay within 10 kmBerghotel Türlwand, Wallehenalm, Rettensteinhütte and 471 more
- visitor centres 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 Hoher Dachstein, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas443 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 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.
Hoher Dachstein
Austria
- 76Viewyas Score
- 215 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,513Peaks in view
- 2,828 mAltitude
5 Fingers
Austria · 9 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 199 kmFarthest ridge
- 517Peaks in view
- 1,987 mAltitude
Feuerpalven
Germany · 47 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 97Peaks in view
- 1,726 mAltitude
Grossglockner
Austria · 82 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 2,321Peaks in view
- 3,647 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q686841) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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