Poland observation tower
Watch Tower Kolibki
You can see 69 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 69 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).
- 69 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 14%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 36 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 3 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 May to June and 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-west32 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- Febsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Marwest24 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Aprwest16 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Junnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Julnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Sepwest20 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Octwest26 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Decsouth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- 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
Watch Tower Kolibki.
Tower in Gdynia, Poland
Watch Tower Kolibki is an observation tower in Poland, 36 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 69 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 14% of the horizon.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Biskupia Górka (61 m), 16 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from May to June and in August.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Camping Metropoliscampsite · 1.5 km · 6 within 10 km
- Willa Falaplace to stay · 0.5 km · 191 within 10 km
- Sopotnearest town · 3.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SopotBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at GDN airport (Gdańsk)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
- 30other viewpoints within 5 kmWzgórze Augusty, Wzniesienie Strzeleckie, Klif Orłowski and 27 more
- 21named peaks within 5 kmWzgórze Augusty, Wzgórze Królowej Marysieńki, Glinna Góra and 18 more
- 1cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmKolejka na Kamienną Górę
- 16marked trails within 3 kmSzlak Kartuski, Szlak Skarszewski, Szlak Wiewiórek and 13 more
- 152shelters and huts within 5 km
- 412car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmInformacja Turystyczna
- 66restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmCamping Metropolis, Sopot 34, Park 45 and 3 more
- 191places to stay within 10 kmWilla Fala, Kropeczka, Opera and 188 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 Watch Tower Kolibki, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas9 forests and trees 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.
Watch Tower Kolibki
Poland
- 61Viewyas Score
- 69 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 36 mAltitude
Lighthouse in Sopot
Poland · 4 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 65 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q780403) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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