Poland summit
Ślęża
You can see 122 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 122 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).
- 122 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 368Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 706 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 368 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 April to May and from August 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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon34%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Augnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- 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
Ślęża.
Mountain in Poland
Ślęża is a summit in Poland, 706 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 122 km away, looking east.
368 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sněžka (1,603 m), 70 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May and from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Camping nr 271campsite · 2.9 km · 2 within 10 km
- Dom Turysty PTTK na Ślężyplace to stay · 0.1 km · 23 within 10 km
- Sobótkanearest town · 4.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SobótkaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Copernicus Wrocław Airport (WRO)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 29 km in a straight lineCar hire at WRO airport (Wrocław)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 kmGrzybek, Skalne Capki and 18 more
- 19named peaks within 5 kmŚlęża, Wieżyca, Gozdnica and 16 more
- 14marked trails within 3 kmStrzeblów - Jordanów Śląski, Strzelce - Ząbkowice Śląskie, Wokół Ślęży and 11 more
- 30shelters and huts within 5 km
- 14car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmŚlężański - najlepsze spod Ślęży
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmCamping nr 271
- 23places to stay within 10 kmDom Turysty PTTK na Ślęży, Mieszko i Jagienka, Zielone Wzgórze and 20 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 Ślęża, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas21 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes 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.
Ślęża
Poland
- 73Viewyas Score
- 122 kmFarthest ridge
- 368Peaks in view
- 706 mAltitude
Bismarck tower on Wielka Sowa
Poland · 26 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 151 kmFarthest ridge
- 399Peaks in view
- 1,014 mAltitude
Observation tower on Chełmiec
Poland · 36 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 141 kmFarthest ridge
- 336Peaks in view
- 849 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q387148) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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