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Tianjin Eye

You can see 204 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 204 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.

74out 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).

  • 204 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 0 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 3 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 in March and from October 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.

  1. Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset55%
  2. Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  3. Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  4. Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset48%
  5. Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  6. Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  7. Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  8. Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  10. Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  11. Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  • 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

Tianjin Eye.

Ferris wheel in Tianjin, China

Tianjin Eye is a Ferris wheel in China.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 204 km away, looking north-west.

3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Miaofeng (1,330 m), 143 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in March and from October to December.

炫彩津门11Tianjin Eye and Haihe River
kele_jb1984 · CC BY-SA 2.0

Get there and stay

  • Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
  • 汉庭酒店place to stay · 1.2 km · 84 within 10 km
  • Tianjinnearest town · 1.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in TianjinBooking.com · sponsored link
  • Tianjin Binhai International Airport (TSN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Tianjin Eye 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

  • 4other viewpoints within 5 km威尼斯广场, 津门故里, 三岔河口 and 1 more
  • 1named peaks within 5 km叠翠山
  • 5shelters and huts within 5 km醉月亭, 长廊, 玉亭 and 2 more
  • 33car parks within 3 km
  • 66restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 84places to stay within 10 km汉庭酒店, 维多利亚国际大酒店, 速8酒店天津西站南广场店(内宾) and 81 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Tianjin Eye, and what is near.

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

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

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

天津之眼北1
KangTyngrwey · CC BY-SA 4.0
View of the Tianjin Eye 20160824
そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tianjin Eye and Tianjin
KangTyngrwey · CC BY-SA 4.0

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  • 204 kmFarthest ridge
  • 3Peaks in view
  • 0 mAltitude

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  • 5Peaks in view
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  • 4Peaks in view
  • 46 mAltitude

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Shilinxia

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  • 59Viewyas Score
  • 92 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q750548) · 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 atlasesRiveryas

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

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