Austria scenic viewpoint
Simmel
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
- 84%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 25Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,735 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 25 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-west56 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febsouth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest38 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maywest66 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Junnorth-west74 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Julwest70 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest52 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest24 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octwest24 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west58 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
Simmel.
Subpeak of Heiterberg in the Allgäu Alps, which is considered part of the Lechquellen Mountains in Vorarlberg, Austria
Simmel is a scenic viewpoint in Austria, 1,735 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 32 km away, looking east.
25 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Widderstein (2,533 m), 2 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 84% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Campingplatz Vorderbodencampsite · 4.8 km · 4 within 10 km
- Haus Alpenblickplace to stay · 2.2 km · 600 within 10 km
- Schröckennearest town · 3.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SchröckenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sankt Gallen Altenrhein Airport (ACH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 49 km in a straight lineCar hire at ACH airport (St. Gallen)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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmSimmel, Tschirggen and 8 more
- 70named peaks within 5 kmKarhorn, Widderstein, Mohnenfluh and 67 more
- 81cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmSteinmähderbahn, Steffisalp-Express, Talstation Materialseilbahn Fiderepaßhütte and 78 more
- 5marked trails within 3 kmSimmelrundweg, Panoramaweg, Via Alpina Stage 52: Mindelheimer Hütte - Schröcken and 2 more
- 16shelters and huts within 5 kmZollhütte and 15 more
- 13car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTouristeninformation
- 17restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Vorderboden, Camping Zwerwald, Alpencamping Haller and 1 more
- 600places to stay within 10 kmHaus Alpenblick, Alphotel Widderstein, Café-Gasthof Alpenwald and 597 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 Simmel, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas294 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas7 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas2 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas1 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.
Simmel
Austria
- 46Viewyas Score
- 32 kmFarthest ridge
- 25Peaks in view
- 1,735 mAltitude
Riedholzer Kugel
Germany · 41 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 156 kmFarthest ridge
- 974Peaks in view
- 1,061 mAltitude
Drei Schwestern
Liechtenstein · 44 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 794Peaks in view
- 2,010 mAltitude
Grauspitz
Switzerland · 48 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 204 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,254Peaks in view
- 2,493 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q21881586) · 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, 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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