Poland 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 99 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).
- 99 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 375Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 226 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 375 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 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 sunset19%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Sepwest14 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west10 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
Wawel.
Hill in Kraków, Poland
Wawel is a summit in Poland, 226 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 99 km away, looking south.
375 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Gerlachovský štít (2,655 m), 100 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Adamcampsite · 2.5 km · 7 within 10 km
- Hotel Kossakplace to stay · 0.5 km · 538 within 10 km
- Krakównearest town · 0.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KrakówBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Kraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at KRK airport (Balice)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
- 45other viewpoints within 5 kmKopiec Krakusa and 44 more
- 12named peaks within 5 kmKopiec Kościuszki, Kopiec Krakusa, Sikornik and 9 more
- 7marked trails within 3 kmMałopolska Droga św. Jakuba, Kryspinów - Kraków Salwator, Szlak Twierdzy Kraków - pętla północna and 4 more
- 505shelters and huts within 5 kmBorsucza and 504 more
- 3,964car parks within 3 km
- 10visitor centres within 5 kmWawel, Tourist Information Point, info Kraków and 7 more
- 955restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmAdam, Camping Smok nr46, Krakowianka and 4 more
- 538places to stay within 10 kmHotel Kossak, Mundo, Cracow and 535 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 Wawel, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas22 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas15 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.
Wawel
Poland
- 68Viewyas Score
- 99 kmFarthest ridge
- 375Peaks in view
- 226 mAltitude
Kriváň
Slovakia · 99 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 238 kmFarthest ridge
- 553Peaks in view
- 2,426 mAltitude
Gerlachovský štít
Slovakia · 100 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 511Peaks in view
- 2,584 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q743704) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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