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Koczy Zamek

You can see 117 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 117 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.

71out of 100

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).

  • 117 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
  • 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 443Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 836 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

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.

  1. Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  2. Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  3. Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  4. Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  5. Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  6. Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  7. Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  8. Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  9. Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  10. Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  11. Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  12. Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  • 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

Koczy Zamek.

Hill in Poland

Koczy Zamek is a scenic viewpoint in Poland, 836 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 117 km away, looking north-west.

443 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Gerlachovský štít (2,655 m), 94 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in August.

Góra Koczy Zamek - panoramio
geo573 · CC BY 3.0

Get there and stay

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.

Koczy Zamek seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 4other viewpoints within 5 kmStefanka, Koczy Zamek and 2 more
  • 39named peaks within 5 kmZłoty Groń, Siwoniowski Wierch, Stefanka and 36 more
  • 4cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmZłoty Groń and 3 more
  • 7marked trails within 3 kmWisła Głębce PKP - Rupienka, Straconka - Smrekowiec, Przełęcz Rupienka - Lupienie and 4 more
  • 10shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 17car parks within 3 km
  • 7restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmMiejsce biwakowania, Pole Namiotowe "Kosor"
  • 187places to stay within 10 kmBarbara Golik, Zajazd U Kiepusa, Dom Gościnny Parafii Ewangelicko-Augsburskiej and 184 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 Koczy Zamek, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas171 mountains within 25 km
Barania Góra1,220 m · 7.4 kmWielka Racza1,236 m · 15 kmSkrzyczne1,257 m · 16 kmCzantoria Wielka995 m · 19 kmRomanka1,366 m · 19 kmPalenica1,338 m · 22 kmMechy1,479 m · 24 kmPilsko1,557 m · 25 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Rezerwat Barania Góra · 6.8 kmPamátný jilm v Bukovci · 11 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Sopotnia Dark Sky CommunityBortle 3 · 24 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Jaskinia Malinowska · 12 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 km
Wisła Czarne - Próg wodny. · 7.5 kmWisła Czarne - Kaskady Rodła · 8.0 kmWisła Czarne - Próg wodny · 8.3 kmWisla-Malinka · 9.0 kmWisła Czarne · 9.5 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Koci zamek
Rdrozd · CC BY-SA 3.0
Koczy Zamek kamieniołom BŚ1
Jerzy Opioła · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kamieniołom Koczy Zamek
SQ9NIT · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Koczy Zamek

Poland

  • 71Viewyas Score
  • 117 kmFarthest ridge
  • 443Peaks in view
  • 836 mAltitude

Tetřev

Czechia · 21 km

  • 74Viewyas Score
  • 135 kmFarthest ridge
  • 609Peaks in view
  • 940 mAltitude

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Bezručova vyhlídka in Sedliště

Czechia · 48 km

  • 69Viewyas Score
  • 104 kmFarthest ridge
  • 244Peaks in view
  • 371 mAltitude

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Viewpoint Malenovice

Czechia · 42 km

  • 64Viewyas Score
  • 99 kmFarthest ridge
  • 38Peaks in view
  • 484 mAltitude

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q11740754) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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