Slovakia / Poland summit
Rysy
You can see 243 km from here, looking north-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 243 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).
- 243 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 497Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,457 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 497 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 August.
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-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon29%
- Aprwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Maynorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon20%
- 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
Rysy.
Border peak in the main ridge of the High Tatras
Rysy is a summit in Slovakia, 2,457 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 243 km away, looking north-west.
497 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Gerlachovský štít (2,655 m), 4 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Táborisko na poľane pod Vysokoucampsite · 2.3 km · 2 within 10 km
- Turistická ubytovňa SHBplace to stay · 6.7 km · 126 within 10 km
- Vysoké Tatrynearest town · 12 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Vysoké TatryBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Poprad-Tatry Airport (TAT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 16 km in a straight lineCar hire at TAT airport (Poprad)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 kmKozi Wierch, sedlo Váha and 11 more
- 261named peaks within 5 kmGerlachovský štít, Cubryna / Čubrina, Veža nad Prielomom and 258 more
- 3cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 19marked trails within 3 kmTatranská magistrála, Czarny Staw pod Rysami - Mięguszowiecka Przełęcz pod Chłopkiem, Pod Mnichem - Wrota Chałubińskiego and 16 more
- 10shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmTáborisko na poľane pod Vysokou, Szałasiska
- 126places to stay within 10 kmTuristická ubytovňa SHB, Crocus, Grand Hotel Kempinski High Tatras and 123 more
- visitor centres 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 Rysy, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas422 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas11 caves within 20 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.
Rysy
Slovakia
- 77Viewyas Score
- 243 kmFarthest ridge
- 497Peaks in view
- 2,457 mAltitude
Gerlachovský štít
Slovakia · 4 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 511Peaks in view
- 2,584 mAltitude
Kriváň
Slovakia · 7 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 238 kmFarthest ridge
- 553Peaks in view
- 2,426 mAltitude
Polana Głodówka
Poland · 14 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 95 kmFarthest ridge
- 294Peaks in view
- 1,139 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q672936) · 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, Darkskyas, 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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