Germany cliff
Rotes Kliff
You can see 32 km from here, looking 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 32 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).
- 32 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 47%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 27 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 from April to May.
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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- 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
Rotes Kliff.
Steep coast on Sylt
Rotes Kliff is a cliff in Germany, 27 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 32 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 47% of the horizon.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Campingplatz Kampencampsite · 0.6 km · 8 within 10 km
- Hotel Rungholtplace to stay · 0.9 km · 179 within 10 km
- Westerlandnearest town · 5.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in WesterlandBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Westerland Sylt Airport (GWT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 4 km in a straight lineCar hire at BLL airport (Billund)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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmUwe-Düne, Sonnenterrasse Kampen and 11 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmUwe-Düne, Radarhügel
- 1marked trails within 3 kmNord Süd Trail, Abschnitt Sylt - Flensburg
- 17shelters and huts within 5 km
- 77car parks within 3 km
- 6visitor centres within 5 kmTourismus-Service Kampen, Touristeninformation Wenningstedt, Tourismus-Zentrum Sylt and 3 more
- 28restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 8campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Kampen, Campingplatz Wenningstedt, Aktion Sylt and 5 more
- 179places to stay within 10 kmHotel Rungholt, Haus Kampwai, Villa Klasen and 176 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 Rotes Kliff, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Birdyas1 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.
Rotes Kliff
Germany
- 57Viewyas Score
- 32 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 27 mAltitude
Morsum-Kliff
Germany · 12 km
- 54Viewyas Score
- 38 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 12 mAltitude
Røjle Klint
Denmark · 115 km
- 60Viewyas Score
- 39 kmFarthest ridge
- 9Peaks in view
- 41 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q314716) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Birdyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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