Czechia observation tower
Masaryk Tower of Independence
You can see 104 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 104 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).
- 104 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 419Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 405 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 419 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 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- 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
Masaryk Tower of Independence.
Observation tower and war memorial at Hořice
Masaryk Tower of Independence is an observation tower in Czechia, 405 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 104 km away, looking south-west.
419 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sněžka (1,603 m), 40 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Autokemp U Věžecampsite · 0.1 km · 10 within 10 km
- Ubytovani chatkyplace to stay · 0.6 km · 20 within 10 km
- Hořicenearest town · 1.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in HořiceBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Pardubice Airport (PED)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 41 km in a straight lineCar hire at PRG airport (Prague)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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 kmByšičky
- 14named peaks within 5 kmKrušina, U Kříže, Gothard and 11 more
- 8marked trails within 3 km[Č] Cesta Karla Jaromíra Erbena, [Ž] Raisova cesta, [Č] Miletín - Konecchlumí and 5 more
- 33shelters and huts within 5 km
- 45car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmMěstské informační centrum Hořice
- 7restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 10campsites within 10 kmAutokemp U Věže, Stanování Dachovy, Kemp Rychta and 7 more
- 20places to stay within 10 kmUbytovani chatky, Hotel Dachova, Hotel Královský Dvůr and 17 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Masaryk Tower of Independence, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas58 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas7 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Masaryk Tower of Independence
Czechia
- 69Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 419Peaks in view
- 405 mAltitude
Štěpánka
Czechia · 45 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 173 kmFarthest ridge
- 539Peaks in view
- 949 mAltitude
Bramberk
Czechia · 52 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 150 kmFarthest ridge
- 463Peaks in view
- 782 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q12035986) · 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, 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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