China Ferris wheel
Star of Nanchang
You can see 143 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 143 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).
- 143 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 26 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 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 September to December.
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 sunset28%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Maywest10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- 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
Star of Nanchang.
Ferris wheel in Nanchang, China
Star of Nanchang is a Ferris wheel in China, 26 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 143 km away, looking south-east.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Lu (1,474 m), 103 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from September to December.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- 江滩公园露营地campsite · 1.7 km · 6 within 10 km
- Wanda Realmplace to stay · 4.3 km · 86 within 10 km
- Nanchangnearest town · 2.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in NanchangBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Nanchang Changbei International Airport (KHN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 24 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
- 4other viewpoints within 5 km滕王阁, 绳金塔, 西观寺 and 1 more
- 19named peaks within 5 km东头山, 来龙山, 总镇坡 and 16 more
- 54shelters and huts within 5 km冠鳌亭, 悠然亭, 清风轩 and 51 more
- 49car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 km江滩公园露营地, 锅圈露营, 璞心岛落日露营基地 and 3 more
- 86places to stay within 10 kmWanda Realm, 全季酒店, 美居酒店 and 83 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 Star of Nanchang, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Lakeyas6 lakes 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.
Star of Nanchang
China
- 67Viewyas Score
- 143 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 26 mAltitude
Mount Sanqing
China · 217 km
- 61Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 1,249 mAltitude
Changsha Ferris Wheel
China · 285 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 141 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 69 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q201422) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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