Austria scenic viewpoint
Kosmus-Jenny-Ruhe
You can see 98 km from here, looking south-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 98 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).
- 98 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 79%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 216Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 625 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 216 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-west14 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maywest42 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Junnorth-west66 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Julnorth-west54 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest22 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- 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
Kosmus-Jenny-Ruhe.
Kosmus-Jenny-Ruhe is a scenic viewpoint in Austria, 625 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 98 km away, looking south-west.
216 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Säntis (2,501 m), 41 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 79% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Pfadfinder Wolfurtcampsite · 0.7 km · 16 within 10 km
- Hotel Schwärzlerplace to stay · 1.7 km · 258 within 10 km
- Kennelbachnearest town · 0.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KennelbachBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sankt Gallen Altenrhein Airport (ACH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 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
- 23other viewpoints within 5 kmGebhardsberg, Bildstein, Känzele and 20 more
- 10named peaks within 5 kmPfänder, Hirschberg, Fürberg and 7 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmPfänderbahn Talstation, Pfänderbahn Bergstation
- 12marked trails within 3 kmNordalpenweg 01, Maximiliansweg (Bayern), Münchner Jakobsweg and 9 more
- 80shelters and huts within 5 km
- 538car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmSeebühne Bregenz, Vorarlberg Lines Bodenseeschiffahrt, Bregenz Tourismus & Stadtmarketing and 1 more
- 102restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 16campsites within 10 kmPfadfinder Wolfurt, Seecamping Bregenz, Camping Mexiko and 13 more
- 258places to stay within 10 kmHotel Schwärzler, Hotel Germania, Krone Hard and 255 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 Kosmus-Jenny-Ruhe, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas207 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas5 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas3 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas3 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Kosmus-Jenny-Ruhe
Austria
- 53Viewyas Score
- 98 kmFarthest ridge
- 216Peaks in view
- 625 mAltitude
Hochberg
Germany · 16 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 132 kmFarthest ridge
- 627Peaks in view
- 580 mAltitude
Riedholzer Kugel
Germany · 28 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 156 kmFarthest ridge
- 974Peaks in view
- 1,061 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q29786714) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, 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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