China Ferris wheel
Changsha Ferris Wheel
You can see 141 km from here, looking south-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 141 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).
- 141 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 69 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 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 September 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Maywest10 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Novwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- 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
Changsha Ferris Wheel.
Ferris wheel in Changsha, China
Changsha Ferris Wheel is a Ferris wheel in China, 69 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 141 km away, looking south-east.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Heng (1,300 m), 102 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from September to December.
Get there and stay
- Going upticket required
- 华天大酒店place to stay · 1.9 km · 180 within 10 km
- Changshanearest town · 2.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ChangshaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Changsha Huanghua International Airport (CSX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 24 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
- 6other viewpoints within 5 km问天台 and 5 more
- 1named peaks within 5 km岳麓山
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 km岳麓山索道
- 34shelters and huts within 5 km停车场出口, 南门, 出口 and 31 more
- 53car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km游客服务中心
- 75restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 180places to stay within 10 km华天大酒店, 大成国际酒店, 高原红酒店 and 177 more
- marked trails within 3 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 Changsha Ferris Wheel, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees 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.
Changsha Ferris Wheel
China
- 66Viewyas Score
- 141 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 69 mAltitude
Tianmen Mountain
China · 262 km
- 62Viewyas Score
- 212 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,376 mAltitude
Star of Nanchang
China · 285 km
- 67Viewyas Score
- 143 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 26 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1414985) · 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, Forestyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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