Poland observation tower
Kaiser Tower (Hausberg)
You can see 30 km from here, looking 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 30 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).
- 30 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 54Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 382 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 54 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-west26 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest22 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Augwest22 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest18 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west26 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
Kaiser Tower (Hausberg).
Hilltop tower in Jelenia Góra, Lower Silesia, Poland
Kaiser Tower (Hausberg) is an observation tower in Poland, 382 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 30 km away, looking west.
54 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sněžka (1,603 m), 19 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% 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.
- Auto-Camping Parkcampsite · 1.9 km · 3 within 10 km
- Hotel Baronplace to stay · 0.9 km · 156 within 10 km
- Jelenia Góranearest town · 1.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Jelenia GóraBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Copernicus Wrocław Airport (WRO)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 84 km in a straight lineCar hire at WRO airport (Wrocław)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
- 6other viewpoints within 5 kmWieża Bramy Zamkowej, Góra Szybowcowa, Sośnik and 3 more
- 44named peaks within 5 kmSrebrna, Wapienna, Szybowisko and 41 more
- 6marked trails within 3 kmSzlak Zamków Piastowskich, Sudecka Droga św. Jakuba, Jelenia Góra-Słonecznik and 3 more
- 48shelters and huts within 5 km
- 356car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmZabytkowy tramwaj, Karkonoska Informacja Turystyczna, Pielgrzymkowy Punkt Informacyjny and 2 more
- 70restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmAuto-Camping Park, Tabor pod Krzywą
- 156places to stay within 10 kmHotel Baron, Great Polonia Jelenia Góra City Center, Europa and 153 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 Kaiser Tower (Hausberg), and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas140 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Cascadyas4 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 Tower (Hausberg)
Poland
- 55Viewyas Score
- 30 kmFarthest ridge
- 54Peaks in view
- 382 mAltitude
Štěpánka
Czechia · 31 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 173 kmFarthest ridge
- 539Peaks in view
- 949 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q9381074) · 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, 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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