Belarus Ferris wheel
Minsk Gorky Park Ferris Wheel
You can see 37 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 37 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).
- 37 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 218 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 3 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 June and in August.
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 sunset15%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- 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
Minsk Gorky Park Ferris Wheel.
Minsk Gorky Park Ferris Wheel is a Ferris wheel in Belarus, 218 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 37 km away, looking south-east.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Dziaržynkaja hara (345 m), 34 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to June and in August.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Рэспубліканская турбазаcampsite · 5.0 km · 7 within 10 km
- Журавінкаplace to stay · 0.8 km · 165 within 10 km
- Minsknearest town · 0.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MinskBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Minsk National Airport (MSQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 31 km in a straight lineCar hire at VNO airport (Vilnius)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
- 17other viewpoints within 5 kmАглядальная пляцоўка, Відовішча на гасцініцу Беларусь, Від на праспект Пераможцаў and 14 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmЭкалагічная сцежка «Легенды беларускай флоры»
- 153shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1,932car parks within 3 km
- 11visitor centres within 5 kmІнфатурцэнтр «Мінск», інфацэнтр, Intercity-tour and 8 more
- 814restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmРэспубліканская турбаза and 6 more
- 165places to stay within 10 kmЖуравінка, Гасцініца МУС дэпартамента фінансаў і тылу, НЦ Шашак І Шахмат and 162 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 Minsk Gorky Park Ferris Wheel, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Minsk Gorky Park Ferris Wheel
Belarus
- 51Viewyas Score
- 37 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 218 mAltitude
Dziaržynkaja hara
Belarus · 34 km
- 58Viewyas Score
- 76 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 358 mAltitude
Aukštojas Hill
Lithuania · 144 km
- 53Viewyas Score
- 53 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 298 mAltitude
Rumšiškės Watchtower
Lithuania · 243 km
- 46Viewyas Score
- 26 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 69 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q109685447) · 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 | Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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