Austria scenic viewpoint
Kapf
You can see 140 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 140 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).
- 140 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 391Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,135 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 391 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 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-west16 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Febwest20 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- 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
Kapf.
Subpeak of Wieskopf in the Bregenz Forest Mountains in Vorarlberg, Austria
Kapf is a scenic viewpoint in Austria, 1,135 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 140 km away, looking north-west.
391 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Säntis (2,501 m), 28 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Campingplatz Diepoldsaucampsite · 4.2 km · 7 within 10 km
- Hotel Schatzplace to stay · 2.0 km · 105 within 10 km
- Hohenemsnearest town · 2.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in HohenemsBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sankt Gallen Altenrhein Airport (ACH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 km in a straight lineCar hire at ACH airport (St. Gallen)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
- 31other viewpoints within 5 kmHohe Lug, Gsätzle, Schönblick and 28 more
- 49named peaks within 5 kmHohe Kugel, Breitenberg, First and 46 more
- 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 90marked trails within 3 kmSchwarzenberg-Rundweg, Bio-Lehrpfad Götzis, St. Arbogast-Rundweg and 87 more
- 57shelters and huts within 5 kmLindenbodenhütte and 56 more
- 378car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmBürgerservice, Tourismus & Stadtmarketing
- 46restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Diepoldsau, Camping Sonnensee, Camping Baggersee Kriessern and 4 more
- 105places to stay within 10 kmHotel Schatz, Hotel-Café Lorenz, Hotel am Garnmarkt and 102 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 Kapf, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas166 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas5 birding sites within 25 km
Canyonyas5 canyons within 20 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.
Kapf
Austria
- 72Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 391Peaks in view
- 1,135 mAltitude
Drei Schwestern
Liechtenstein · 21 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 794Peaks in view
- 2,010 mAltitude
Grauspitz
Switzerland · 33 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 204 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,254Peaks in view
- 2,493 mAltitude
Hochberg
Germany · 32 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 132 kmFarthest ridge
- 627Peaks in view
- 580 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q21868276) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, 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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