China scenic viewpoint
Lok Ma Chau Garden
You can see 121 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 121 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).
- 121 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 18Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 46 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 18 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Decsouth-west2 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
Lok Ma Chau Garden.
Public park and lookout in Hong Kong
Lok Ma Chau Garden is a scenic viewpoint in China, 46 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 121 km away, looking west.
18 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Lantau Peak (934 m), 34 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in October.
Get there and stay
- 香港女童軍總會賽馬會碧溪莊 The Hong Kong Girl Guides Association Jockey Club Beas River Lodgecampsite · 2.8 km · 11 within 10 km
- 深港休闲中心place to stay · 4.0 km · 164 within 10 km
- San Tinnearest town · 1.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in San TinBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 28 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
- 8other viewpoints within 5 km地王观光·深港之窗, Green Bridge, 落馬洲暸望台 Lok Ma Chau Lookout and 5 more
- 41named peaks within 5 km大石磨 Tai Shek Mo, 龍潭山 Lung Tam Shan, 麒麟山 Ki Lun Shan and 38 more
- 1marked trails within 3 km福田环城绿道（步行）
- 89shelters and huts within 5 km
- 77car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 km访客中心, 米埔自然保護區教育中心 Mai Po Nature Reserve Education Centre
- 67restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 11campsites within 10 km香港女童軍總會賽馬會碧溪莊 The Hong Kong Girl Guides Association Jockey Club Beas River Lodge, 寶血兒童村 The Sisters of Precious Blood Children's Village, 香港青年獎勵計劃賽馬會愛丁堡公爵訓練營 HKAYP Jockey Club Duke of Edinburgh Training Camp and 8 more
- 164places to stay within 10 km深港休闲中心, 华侨酒店, 深圳月湾商务酒店 and 161 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 Lok Ma Chau Garden, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas136 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls 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.
Lok Ma Chau Garden
China
- 71Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 46 mAltitude
Victoria Peak
China · 27 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 150 kmFarthest ridge
- 49Peaks in view
- 530 mAltitude
Sky100 Hong Kong Observation Deck
China · 24 km
- 55Viewyas Score
- 31 kmFarthest ridge
- 40Peaks in view
- 13 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q10513289) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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