China Ferris wheel
Bay Glory
You can see 115 km from here, looking west.
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 115 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).
- 115 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 42Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 42 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 October to December.
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 sunset39%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Novwest6 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- 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
Bay Glory.
Ferris wheel in Shenzhen
Bay Glory is a Ferris wheel in China.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 115 km away, looking west.
42 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Lantau Peak (934 m), 33 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from October to December.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- 本京国际酒店place to stay · 2.8 km · 163 within 10 km
- Happy Harbournearest town · 0.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Happy HarbourBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (SZX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 km in a straight line
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
- 7other viewpoints within 5 km天鹅, 城市视角 and 5 more
- 5named peaks within 5 km大南山, 杜鹃山, 鸡公山 and 2 more
- 3marked trails within 3 km广东万里碧道－双界河段, 深圳经济特区管理线绿道（步行）
- 58shelters and huts within 5 km古松亭, 草山亭 and 56 more
- 88car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 km宝体青年志愿服务站, 游客中心
- 239restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 163places to stay within 10 km本京国际酒店, 诺丁山青年旅舍, 锦江之星（深圳南山前海路店） and 160 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- campsites within 10 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 Bay Glory, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas24 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 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.
Bay Glory
China
- 72Viewyas Score
- 115 kmFarthest ridge
- 42Peaks in view
- 2 mAltitude
Victoria Peak
China · 40 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 150 kmFarthest ridge
- 49Peaks in view
- 530 mAltitude
Lok Ma Chau Garden
China · 20 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 46 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q105888901) · 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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