United Kingdom Ferris wheel
The Wheel of Liverpool
You can see 125 km from here, looking north.
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 125 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).
- 125 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 12%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 358Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 12 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 358 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 May.
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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Decsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- 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
The Wheel of Liverpool.
Ferris wheel on the Keel Wharf waterfront of the River Mersey in Liverpool.
The Wheel of Liverpool is a Ferris wheel in United Kingdom.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 125 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 12% of the horizon.
358 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Snowdon (1,085 m), 81 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Going upticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Park Lane Caravan Parkcampsite · 10 km · 4 within 10 km
- Premier Innplace to stay · 0.1 km · 155 within 10 km
- Toxtethnearest town · 1.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ToxtethBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at LPL airport (Liverpool)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
- 8other viewpoints within 5 kmLiverpool Central Library roof terrace, Woodside and 6 more
- 4named peaks within 5 kmPrenton Hill, Everton Brow, Gorse Hill and 1 more
- 4marked trails within 3 kmWirral Circular Trail, Trans-Pennine Trail (Liverpool to Warrington), King Charles III England Coast Path: Cleveleys to Liverpool and 1 more
- 67shelters and huts within 5 km
- 759car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmBeatles Information Centre, Birkenhead Park Visitor Centre
- 429restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmPark Lane Caravan Park and 3 more
- 155places to stay within 10 kmPremier Inn, Staybridge Suites, Leonardo Hotels and 152 more
- 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 The Wheel of Liverpool, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees 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.
The Wheel of Liverpool
United Kingdom
- 76Viewyas Score
- 125 kmFarthest ridge
- 358Peaks in view
- 12 mAltitude
Blackpool Tower
United Kingdom · 47 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 105 kmFarthest ridge
- 480Peaks in view
- 21 mAltitude
Snowdon
United Kingdom · 81 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 213 kmFarthest ridge
- 556Peaks in view
- 1,051 mAltitude
Wheel of Manchester
United Kingdom · 50 km
- 70Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 260Peaks in view
- 49 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q26205061) · 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Forestyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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