Germany summit
Loreley
You can see 68 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 68 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).
- 68 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 45Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 382 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 45 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 August 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-west30 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Febsouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Aprwest16 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Julnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwest18 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest18 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west28 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
Loreley.
Rock on the eastern bank of the River Rhine in Germany
Loreley is a summit in Germany, 382 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 68 km away, looking north-east.
45 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kalte Herberge (619 m), 23 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Camping Loreleyblickcampsite · 0.6 km · 13 within 10 km
- Pohl's Rheinhotel Adlerplace to stay · 1.8 km · 148 within 10 km
- Sankt Goarnearest town · 1.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Sankt GoarBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (HHN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 40 km in a straight lineCar hire at HHN airport (Frankfurt am Main)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
- 108other viewpoints within 5 kmOelsbergsteig, Spitznack, Aussichtsturm Spitzer Stein and 105 more
- 22named peaks within 5 kmSpitzenstein, Hohenstein, Hardungsberg and 19 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmSommerrodelbahn Loreley-Bob
- 40marked trails within 3 kmRheinburgenweg 10. Etappe St. Goar - Oberwesel, Europäischer Fernwanderweg E8, Rheinland-Pfalz, Rheinburgenweg Zugangsweg St. Goar and 37 more
- 72shelters and huts within 5 kmWanderhütte Spitzestein, Dreiburgenblick, Waldschule and 69 more
- 120car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmTourist-Information, Tourist Info St. Goar
- 31restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 13campsites within 10 kmCamping Loreleyblick, Bioferienhof Loreley WoMo Platz, Loreleystadt and 10 more
- 148places to stay within 10 kmPohl's Rheinhotel Adler, Römerkrug, Gutsschänke Sennerhof and 145 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 Loreley, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas199 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas4 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.
Loreley
Germany
- 62Viewyas Score
- 68 kmFarthest ridge
- 45Peaks in view
- 382 mAltitude
Idarkopfturm
Germany · 45 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 160 kmFarthest ridge
- 574Peaks in view
- 754 mAltitude
Atzelberg Tower
Germany · 47 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 179 kmFarthest ridge
- 418Peaks in view
- 510 mAltitude
Wildenburg Castle
Germany · 53 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 145 kmFarthest ridge
- 367Peaks in view
- 664 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q4168) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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