United States observation tower
Aloha Tower
You can see 180 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 180 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).
- 180 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 36%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 4 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 6 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 June 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Maywest10 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- 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
Aloha Tower.
Observation tower at Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii, United States
Aloha Tower is an observation tower in United States.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 180 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 36% of the horizon.
6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Puu Kukui (1,764 m), 141 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Ke'ehi Lagoon Memorialcampsite · 4.0 km · 1 within 10 km
- Aston at the Executive Centreplace to stay · 0.6 km · 194 within 10 km
- Financial Districtnearest town · 0.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Financial DistrictBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at HNL airport (Honolulu, Oahu)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
- 9other viewpoints within 5 kmTantalus Lookout, Punch Bowl and 7 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmRocky Hill, Round Top, Puʻukapu
- 52shelters and huts within 5 kmWeather Shelter and 51 more
- 446car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmNational Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Visitor Center
- 310restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmKe'ehi Lagoon Memorial
- 194places to stay within 10 kmAston at the Executive Centre, Hale Koa, Pacific Marina Inn and 191 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 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 Aloha Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas53 mountains within 25 km
Coastya16 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 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.
Aloha Tower
United States
- 84Viewyas Score
- 180 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Haleakalā
United States · 180 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 207 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 2,954 mAltitude
Waimea Canyon State Park
United States · 204 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 115 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 900 mAltitude
Mauna Kea
United States · 299 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 4,186 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q448450) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Forestyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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