Austria scenic viewpoint
Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe
You can see 10 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 10 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).
- 10 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 69%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 28Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,419 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 28 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-west106 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febsouth-west104 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest84 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest96 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maywest50 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Junnorth-west52 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Julnorth-west46 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Augwest86 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest88 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octsouth-west106 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west110 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west116 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
Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe.
Mountain in Austria
Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe is a scenic viewpoint in Austria, 2,419 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 10 km away, looking south-east.
28 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Grossglockner (3,798 m), 4 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 69% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Nationalpark Camping Großglocknercampsite · 7.9 km · 3 within 10 km
- Trauneralmplace to stay · 6.3 km · 71 within 10 km
- Heiligenblutnearest town · 8.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in HeiligenblutBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Salzburg Airport (SZG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 82 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
- 17other viewpoints within 5 kmP1 and 16 more
- 51named peaks within 5 kmGroßglockner, Kleinglockner, Glocknerhorn and 48 more
- 10cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmGroßglockner Gletscherbahn and 9 more
- 19marked trails within 3 kmZentralalpenweg 02, AV Weg 702B (Zentralalpenweg Var. B), AV Weg 741 and 16 more
- 2shelters and huts within 5 kmGlocknerbiwak
- 19car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmBesucherzentrum Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe
- 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmNationalpark Camping Großglockner, Möllfluss Camping, Nationalpark Camping Kals
- 71places to stay within 10 kmTrauneralm, Berggasthof Wallackhaus, Ferienhütte Hoaz Alm and 68 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 Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas481 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas6 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.
Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe
Austria
- 31Viewyas Score
- 10 kmFarthest ridge
- 28Peaks in view
- 2,419 mAltitude
Grossglockner
Austria · 4 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 246 kmFarthest ridge
- 2,321Peaks in view
- 3,647 mAltitude
Großvenediger
Austria · 31 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 2,167Peaks in view
- 3,623 mAltitude
Feuerpalven
Germany · 55 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 97Peaks in view
- 1,726 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1660474) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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