Russia Ferris wheel
Moscow Sun
You can see 43 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 43 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).
- 43 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 160 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1 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 May and from July to 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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Augnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- 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
Moscow Sun.
Ferris wheel is Moscow, Russia
Moscow Sun is a Ferris wheel in Russia, 160 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 43 km away, looking west.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Poklonnaya Hill (172 m), 13 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in May and from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Th 10:00-22:00; Fr-Su 10:00-24:00Official site↗
- Сокольникиcampsite · 3.4 km · 2 within 10 km
- Байкалplace to stay · 1.3 km · 797 within 10 km
- Ostankinskiynearest town · 0.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in OstankinskiyBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 21 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
- 21other viewpoints within 5 km
- 3cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmDrop Вейк Парк, Южная станция канатной дороги, Северная станция канатной дороги
- 2marked trails within 3 kmДорога в Лавру, Зелёное Kольцо Москвы
- 190shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1,160car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmИнфоцентр ВДНХ and 3 more
- 354restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmСокольники, Глэмпинг «Лосиный остров»
- 797places to stay within 10 kmБайкал, ХостелРус ВДНХ, Звёздная and 794 more
- named peaks 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 Moscow Sun, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas6 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Moscow Sun
Russia
- 50Viewyas Score
- 43 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 160 mAltitude
Sokolniki Watchtower
Russia · 5 km
- 49Viewyas Score
- 37 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 150 mAltitude
Valdai Hills
Russia · 285 km
- 50Viewyas Score
- 44 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 248 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q107658254) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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