Canada observation tower
Skylon Tower
You can see 92 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 92 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).
- 92 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 196 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 from July to September.
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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- 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
Skylon Tower.
Observation tower in Niagara Falls, Canada
Skylon Tower is an observation tower in Canada, 196 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 92 km away, looking north-west.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Oak Ridges Moraine (406 m), 109 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Niagara Falls KOA Holiday Campgroundcampsite · 5.1 km · 7 within 10 km
- Niagara's Best Innplace to stay · 0.5 km · 209 within 10 km
- Niagara Fallsnearest town · 2.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Niagara FallsBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Niagara Falls International Airport (IAG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at IAG airport (Niagara Falls)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
- 50other viewpoints within 5 kmSkylon Tower, Terrapin Point, lookout of falls and 47 more
- 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmWhirlpool Aero Car, Falls Incline Railway, Hornblower Niagara Funicular and 3 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmOlympic Torch Run Legacy Trail
- 29shelters and huts within 5 kmNiagara Parks Welcome Centre and 28 more
- 871car parks within 3 km
- 7visitor centres within 5 kmTable Rock Welcome Centre, Ontario Travel Information, Niagara USA Official Visitor Center and 4 more
- 186restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmNiagara Falls KOA Holiday Campground, Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp and Resort, Scotts Tent & Trailer Park and 4 more
- 209places to stay within 10 kmNiagara's Best Inn, Vittoria Hotel & Suites, Howard Johnson and 206 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 Skylon Tower, 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
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas4 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.
Skylon Tower
Canada
- 58Viewyas Score
- 92 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 196 mAltitude
Niagara SkyWheel
Canada · 1 km
- 60Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 184 mAltitude
Konica Minolta Tower Centre
Canada · 1 km
- 60Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 200 mAltitude
Terrapin Point
United States · 1 km
- 38Viewyas Score
- 2 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 157 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1208032) · 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, Canyonyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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