China Ferris wheel
Beijing Great Wheel
You can see 112 km from here, looking north-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 112 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).
- 112 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 5Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 37 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 5 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 November to January.
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 sunset65%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset63%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- 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
Beijing Great Wheel.
Ferris wheel in Beijing, China
Beijing Great Wheel is a Ferris wheel in China, 37 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 112 km away, looking north-east.
5 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Miaofeng (1,330 m), 42 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from November to January.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- 亮马河酒店place to stay · 2.0 km · 719 within 10 km
- Chaowainearest town · 5.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ChaowaiBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 17 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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 km金台夕照
- 26shelters and huts within 5 km
- 125car parks within 3 km
- 435restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km
- 719places to stay within 10 km亮马河酒店, 凯富大厦, 红驿站酒店 and 716 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- visitor centres 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 Beijing Great Wheel, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Beijing Great Wheel
China
- 70Viewyas Score
- 112 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 37 mAltitude
Beijing Olympic Tower
China · 10 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 130 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 46 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q594513) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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