United Kingdom Ferris wheel
Wheel of Sheffield
You can see 22 km from here, looking north-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 22 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).
- 22 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 87 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
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, in September and in 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-west20 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest20 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest22 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Maynorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Julnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Augwest20 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Sepwest22 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Octwest20 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
Wheel of Sheffield.
Ferris wheel in Sheffield, England
Wheel of Sheffield is a Ferris wheel in United Kingdom, 87 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 22 km away, looking north-east.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May, in September and in December.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Fox Hagg Farm Camp Sitecampsite · 6.2 km · 5 within 10 km
- Novotel Sheffield Centreplace to stay · 0.2 km · 70 within 10 km
- Sheffieldnearest town · 0.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SheffieldBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Manchester Airport (MAN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 54 km in a straight lineCar hire at MAN airport (Manchester, Greater Manchester)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
- 23other viewpoints within 5 kmKelham Weir, Don Valley Bowl Arc Furnace Charking Basket, Cholera Monument and 20 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmLoxley Common, Tapton Hill
- 1cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 8marked trails within 3 kmRiver Sheaf Walk, Porter Brook Trail, Sheffield Round Walk and 5 more
- 54shelters and huts within 5 km
- 980car parks within 3 km
- 7visitor centres within 5 kmTravel Information Centre, Sheffield Interchange Travel Centre, Mobile Sheffield and 4 more
- 593restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmFox Hagg Farm Camp Site, Birley Caravan Storage, Wyming Brook Farm Certificated Site and 2 more
- 70places to stay within 10 kmNovotel Sheffield Centre, The Salvation Army, KSpace Serviced Apartments and 67 more
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 Wheel of Sheffield, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas21 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas6 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas1 caves 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.
Wheel of Sheffield
United Kingdom
- 43Viewyas Score
- 22 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 87 mAltitude
Peak District
United Kingdom · 27 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 347Peaks in view
- 634 mAltitude
Hoober Stand
United Kingdom · 12 km
- 68Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 54Peaks in view
- 154 mAltitude
Stanage Edge
United Kingdom · 11 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 96 kmFarthest ridge
- 24Peaks in view
- 425 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q741640) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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