Germany scenic viewpoint
Riedholzer Kugel
You can see 156 km from here, looking 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 156 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).
- 156 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 974Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,061 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 974 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west6 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
Riedholzer Kugel.
Mountain of the foothills of the Allgäu Alps in Bavaria, Germany
Riedholzer Kugel is a scenic viewpoint in Germany, 1,061 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 156 km away, looking west.
974 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Säntis (2,501 m), 69 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Campingplatz Sonnenbucklcampsite · 1.9 km · 16 within 10 km
- Rezeption Ferienclub Maierhöfenplace to stay · 1.6 km · 195 within 10 km
- Maierhöfennearest town · 1.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MaierhöfenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Memmingen Allgau Airport (FMM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 41 km in a straight lineCar hire at FMM airport (Memmingen)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
- 20other viewpoints within 5 kmHintereck, Pferrenberg, Kapf and 17 more
- 19named peaks within 5 kmRiedholzer Kugel, Iberger Kugel, Hofener Berg and 16 more
- 13cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 11marked trails within 3 kmMünchner Jakobsweg, Querweg des Schwäbischen Albvereins (blauer Punkt), Bayerisch-Schwäbischer Jakobsweg MM-LI and 8 more
- 35shelters and huts within 5 kmIsny Bähnle and 34 more
- 34car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmTouristinfo Weitnau, Gästeamt Maierhöfen, Tourismus Argental and 2 more
- 13restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 16campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Sonnenbuckl, Genau so! Allgäu Campingplatz, Waldbad Camping Isny and 13 more
- 195places to stay within 10 kmRezeption Ferienclub Maierhöfen, Gasthof Argentobelbrücke, Gasthaus Adler and 192 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 Riedholzer Kugel, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas208 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 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.
Riedholzer Kugel
Germany
- 76Viewyas Score
- 156 kmFarthest ridge
- 974Peaks in view
- 1,061 mAltitude
Wachbühl
Germany · 27 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 199 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,496Peaks in view
- 786 mAltitude
Hochberg
Germany · 24 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 132 kmFarthest ridge
- 627Peaks in view
- 580 mAltitude
Gehrenberg Tower
Germany · 51 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,671Peaks in view
- 702 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q785368) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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