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Sky Dream

You can see 124 km from here, looking south.

81Viewyas Score

Ferris wheelSunsetSea view360°Long viewMany peaks

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 124 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.

81out of 100

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).

  • 124 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
  • 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 33%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 197Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 248 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 197 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.

Mount Houyan596 m · 6.0 km · north-eastJialishan Range2,618 m · 42 km · north-eastDabajian Mountain3,492 m · 59 km · eastPintian Mountain3,524 m · 59 km · eastXueshan3,886 m · 55 km · eastDaxue Mountain3,530 m · 43 km · eastBaigu Mountain3,341 m · 44 km · eastEight Immortals Mountain2,366 m · 37 km · south-eastGuangtou Mountain3,071 m · 72 km · south-eastBaimao Mountain1,522 m · 29 km · south-eastMu Mountain3,239 m · 70 km · south-eastZhuoshe Mountain3,368 m · 69 km · south-eastDanda Mountain3,340 m · 96 km · south-eastAnying Shan932 m · 24 km · south-eastDongjunda Mountain3,619 m · 87 km · south-eastXiuguluan Mountain3,825 m · 99 km · southBatongguan Mountain3,335 m · 98 km · southYushan Main Peak3,952 m · 98 km · southNanyu Mountain3,383 m · 102 km · southGuan Mountain3,666 m · 124 km · southDou Shan2,129 m · 87 km · southShibi Hill1,754 m · 80 km · southXiding Mountain1,471 m · 99 km · southDuli Mountain840 m · 88 km · south

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.

  1. Jansouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  2. Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  3. Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  4. Aprwestsets on an open horizon20%
  5. Maywestsets on an open horizon21%
  6. Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  7. Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  10. Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  11. Novwestsets on an open horizon29%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  • 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

Sky Dream.

Ferries wheel in Taichung, Taiwan

Sky Dream is a Ferris wheel in Taiwan, 248 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 124 km away, looking south.

The sea fills 33% of the horizon.

197 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Yushan Main Peak (3,952 m), 98 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in October.

202604 Sky Dream in Lihpao Land at night (shutter 0.1 sec)
Junyu-K · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Sky DreamGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Sky DreamBooking.comSee prices Car hire in TaipeiDiscover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Sky Dream seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 13other viewpoints within 5 km最高點平台, 高鐵觀景台, 火炎山觀景台 and 10 more
  • 2named peaks within 5 km鐵砧山, 七星岡
  • 92shelters and huts within 5 km樂山亭 and 91 more
  • 40car parks within 3 km
  • 10visitor centres within 5 km遊客中心, 遊客服務中心 and 8 more
  • 58restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 km摩天輪營地, 一鏡頭露營區, 水映親子露營區 and 8 more
  • 30places to stay within 10 km法格斯-石光, 頂基南村, 636紅磚小屋 and 27 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 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 Sky Dream, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas112 mountains within 25 km
Siling Shan1,148 m · 21 kmNaigudong1,044 m · 22 kmChuyun Shan1,021 m · 23 kmSongyong Shan1,245 m · 23 kmFenguilin Shan1,084 m · 24 kmGuanyin Shan1,242 m · 24 kmXidaobang Shan1,281 m · 24 kmNanshi Shan999 m · 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Taiwan Island35,883 km²
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Meizi Village Mango Tree · 12 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Other viewpoints nearby.

Sky Dream

Taiwan

  • 81Viewyas Score
  • 124 kmFarthest ridge
  • 197Peaks in view
  • 248 mAltitude

Xueshan

Taiwan · 54 km

  • 86Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 219Peaks in view
  • 3,864 mAltitude

See the guide

Yushan Main Peak

Taiwan · 99 km

  • 86Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 217Peaks in view
  • 3,910 mAltitude

See the guide

Chingshui Cliff

Taiwan · 102 km

  • 66Viewyas Score
  • 124 kmFarthest ridge
  • 47Peaks in view
  • 190 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q64840994) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Forestyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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