China Ferris wheel
Hong Kong Observation Wheel
You can see 25 km from here, looking north-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 25 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).
- 25 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 92%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 34Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 5 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 34 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 in October.
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-west72 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Febwest28 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Maywest6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest20 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Novsouth-west58 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Decsouth-west74 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- 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
Hong Kong Observation Wheel.
Ferris wheel in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Observation Wheel is a Ferris wheel in China.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 25 km away, looking north-west.
34 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Victoria Peak (552 m), 2 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 92% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in October.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- 香港傷健協會賽馬會傷健營 Hong Kong PHAB Association Jockey Club PHAB Campcampsite · 3.5 km · 10 within 10 km
- 香港置地文華東方酒店 The Landmark Mandarin Oriental Hong Kongplace to stay · 0.6 km · 514 within 10 km
- Centralnearest town · 0.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in CentralBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 26 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
- 72other viewpoints within 5 km司徒拔道眺望處 Stubbs Road Lookout, 西高山觀景台 Mt. High West Viewing Point, 寶馬山觀景台 Braemar Hill Lookout and 69 more
- 36named peaks within 5 km扯旗山 Victoria Peak, 西高山 High West, 奇力山 Mount Kellett and 33 more
- 17cable car and funicular stations within 5 km山頂纜車 Peak Tram, 海洋列車 Ocean Express and 15 more
- 11marked trails within 3 kmPok Fu Lam Family Walk, Wan Chai Green Trail, Central Green Trail and 8 more
- 597shelters and huts within 5 km九號涼亭 Pavilion 9, 七號涼亭 Pavilion 7, 十三號涼亭 Pavilion 13 and 594 more
- 235car parks within 3 km
- 8visitor centres within 5 km香港仔樹木廊 Aberdeen Tree Centre, 香港旅遊發展局 Hong Kong Tourism Board, 香港酒店業協會 Hong Kong Hotels Association and 5 more
- 1,752restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 10campsites within 10 km香港傷健協會賽馬會傷健營 Hong Kong PHAB Association Jockey Club PHAB Camp, 香港女童軍新德倫山莊 Hong Kong Girl Guides Sandilands Centre, 女童軍馬沈慧芙野外訓練中心 Girl Guides Cecilia Mar Venture House and 7 more
- 514places to stay within 10 km香港置地文華東方酒店 The Landmark Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, 港島香格里拉大酒店 Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong, The Bauhinia Hotel and 511 more
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 Hong Kong Observation Wheel, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas187 mountains within 25 km
Coastya8 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas3 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.
Hong Kong Observation Wheel
China
- 51Viewyas Score
- 25 kmFarthest ridge
- 34Peaks in view
- 5 mAltitude
Victoria Peak
China · 2 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 150 kmFarthest ridge
- 49Peaks in view
- 530 mAltitude
Lok Ma Chau Garden
China · 26 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 46 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q18119458) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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