United States observation tower
Theme Building
You can see 161 km from here, looking 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 161 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).
- 161 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 16%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 42Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 36 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 42 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 June 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 sunset58%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset71%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset79%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset83%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset86%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset83%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset75%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- 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
Theme Building.
Architectural structure at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California
Theme Building is an observation tower in United States, 36 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 161 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 16% of the horizon.
42 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is San Gorgonio Mountain (3,506 m), 146 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Dockweiler Beach RV Parkcampsite · 3.5 km · 3 within 10 km
- Nina Home LAplace to stay · 1.5 km · 325 within 10 km
- El Segundonearest town · 3.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in El SegundoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 1 km in a straight lineCar hire at LAX airport (Los Angeles)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
- 3other viewpoints within 5 kmAirplane Landing View Point, Imperial Hill
- 27shelters and huts within 5 km
- 277car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmMarina Del Rey Visitor Information Center
- 138restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmDockweiler Beach RV Park, Dockweiler RV Park
- 325places to stay within 10 kmNina Home LA, Maison Los Angeles 1st unit, 2TwentyOne and 322 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 Theme Building, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas12 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Canyonyas4 canyons within 20 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.
Theme Building
United States
- 92Viewyas Score
- 161 kmFarthest ridge
- 42Peaks in view
- 36 mAltitude
Laurel Canyon
United States · 19 km
- 58Viewyas Score
- 78 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 312 mAltitude
Mount Whitney
United States · 293 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 190Peaks in view
- 4,380 mAltitude
Dante's View
United States · 296 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 236 kmFarthest ridge
- 30Peaks in view
- 1,657 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3523620) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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