Pick a view and an hour. See how the tower will look from there.
Each line on the map runs from a free spot outside Mitte to the TV Tower. Drag the sun across the day and the lines change colour: green means the sun is behind you and lights the tower, black means you look into the sun and get a silhouette. The phone frame shows how big the tower really comes out from the spot you pick.
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Drag along the sun curve, or focus it and use the arrow keys (10 minutes; Page Up and Page Down for an hour).
How this works: distance and bearing are calculated from OpenStreetMap coordinates to the tower base; apparent height is atan(368 m / distance) and ignores hills and eye height. Sun position uses the NOAA approximation for Berlin, accurate to about two minutes. The phone frame assumes a level phone in portrait with a 26 mm equivalent main camera. Teufelsberg prices and hours and Tempelhofer Feld gate times are from the official sites. Checked on 9 November 2026.