United Kingdom Ferris wheel
Belfast Wheel
You can see 81 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 81 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).
- 81 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 17Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 10 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 17 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 April to May.
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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Marwest28 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest36 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Maynorth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Julnorth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Augwest34 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Sepwest30 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Octwest18 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west8 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
Belfast Wheel.
Ferris wheel in Northern Ireland
Belfast Wheel is a Ferris wheel in United Kingdom.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 81 km away, looking north-east.
17 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Slieve Donard (849 m), 46 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Dundonald Touring Caravan Parkcampsite · 7.3 km · 5 within 10 km
- Travelodge - Belfast Centralplace to stay · 0.3 km · 104 within 10 km
- Belfastnearest town · 0.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BelfastBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- George Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 4 km in a straight lineCar hire at BHD airport (Belfast)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
- 6other viewpoints within 5 kmThe Dome at Victoria Square and 5 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmSquires Hill, Black Mountain
- 5marked trails within 3 kmLagan Towpath, Comber Greenway, Connswater Community Greenway and 2 more
- 276shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1,224car parks within 3 km
- 7visitor centres within 5 kmTourism Northern Ireland, Belfast Welcome Centre, Discover Ulster-Scots Centre and 4 more
- 340restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmDundonald Touring Caravan Park, Standing Stones Lodge Caravan Park, Jordanstown Loughshore Caravan Park and 2 more
- 104places to stay within 10 kmTravelodge - Belfast Central, Belfast Apartment, Belfast City Centre Apartment and 101 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 Belfast Wheel, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Belfast Wheel
United Kingdom
- 63Viewyas Score
- 81 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 10 mAltitude
Snaefell
Isle of Man · 102 km
- 85Viewyas Score
- 194 kmFarthest ridge
- 437Peaks in view
- 614 mAltitude
Cliffs of Magho
United Kingdom · 128 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 22Peaks in view
- 304 mAltitude
Wheel of Dublin
Ireland · 140 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 95 kmFarthest ridge
- 70Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q792272) · 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, Forestyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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