Hungary scenic viewpoint
Kerek-kő
You can see 109 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 109 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).
- 109 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 94%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 44Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 487 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 44 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 August.
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-west80 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Febsouth-west74 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest38 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest32 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Maynorth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Junnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Julnorth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Augwest30 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Sepwest26 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octsouth-west62 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Novsouth-west80 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west80 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
Kerek-kő.
Kerek-kő is a scenic viewpoint in Hungary, 487 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 109 km away, looking north-east.
44 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kremenec (1,221 m), 113 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 94% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Kavicsváltói táborozóhelycampsite · 2.9 km · 4 within 10 km
- Rostalló kulcsosházplace to stay · 1.5 km · 96 within 10 km
- Göncnearest town · 12 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in GöncBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Košice International Airport (KSC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 31 km in a straight lineCar hire at KSC airport (Košice)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
- 30other viewpoints within 5 kmHemzső-kő, Szaru-kő, CZárán pihenő and 27 more
- 28named peaks within 5 kmFekete-hegy, Sólyom-bérc, Bazsa-hegy and 25 more
- 22marked trails within 3 kmK, OKT, Z (Bodrogolaszi – Komlóska – Újhuta – Kőkapu – Rostalló), K▲ (Hangyás-bérc – Kerek-kő – Cselliszka-rét) and 19 more
- 24shelters and huts within 5 kmEszkála eh., Tamás-hegyi pihenőhely and 22 more
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmKavicsváltói táborozóhely, Újhutai Ifjúsági Tábor, Kőbérc kemping and 1 more
- 96places to stay within 10 kmRostalló kulcsosház, Bakos Bertalanné panziója, Gábor vendégház and 93 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 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 Kerek-kő, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 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.
Kerek-kő
Hungary
- 66Viewyas Score
- 109 kmFarthest ridge
- 44Peaks in view
- 487 mAltitude
Observation tower Hradová
Slovakia · 41 km
- 67Viewyas Score
- 96 kmFarthest ridge
- 33Peaks in view
- 455 mAltitude
Kékes
Hungary · 121 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 245 kmFarthest ridge
- 442Peaks in view
- 1,022 mAltitude
Gerlachovský štít
Slovakia · 127 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 511Peaks in view
- 2,584 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q109911279) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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