Austria Ferris wheel
Wiener Riesenrad
You can see 85 km from here, looking south-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 85 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).
- 85 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 287Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 164 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 287 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 April and in August.
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 sunset22%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Maynorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Junnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Julnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest14 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Sepwest14 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Novsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- 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
Wiener Riesenrad.
Ferris wheel in Vienna
Wiener Riesenrad is a Ferris wheel in Austria, 164 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 85 km away, looking south-west.
287 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Schneealpe (1,903 m), 83 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in August.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- MICAMPA Wien Donaucampsite · 3.8 km · 3 within 10 km
- Austria Classic Hotel Wienplace to stay · 0.5 km · 576 within 10 km
- Landstraßenearest town · 1.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in LandstraßeBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Vienna International Airport (VIE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 km in a straight lineCar hire at VIE airport (Vienna)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
- 19other viewpoints within 5 kmFlakturm Esterhazy-Park, Türmerstube, Adlerturm and 16 more
- 4named peaks within 5 kmKonstantinhügel, Kalvarienberg, Ganserlberg and 1 more
- 8marked trails within 3 kmOstösterreichischer Grenzlandweg 07, Europäischer Fernwanderweg E8 - Österreich, Europäischer Fernwanderweg E4 (Wien - Rattersdorf) and 5 more
- 1,014shelters and huts within 5 kmPavillon der Weltausstellung 1873 and 1,013 more
- 670car parks within 3 km
- 17visitor centres within 5 kmNaturfreunde Österreich, ÖJHV - Österr. Jugendherbergsverband, Tourist-Info and 14 more
- 1,716restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmMICAMPA Wien Donau, Naturistenpark Lobau Camping, Reisemobil-Stellplatz Wien
- 576places to stay within 10 kmAustria Classic Hotel Wien, Hotel Post Wien, Mercure Grand Hotel Biedermeier Wien and 573 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 Wiener Riesenrad, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas229 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas10 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas7 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Wiener Riesenrad
Austria
- 66Viewyas Score
- 85 kmFarthest ridge
- 287Peaks in view
- 164 mAltitude
Wienerblick
Austria · 12 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 148 kmFarthest ridge
- 267Peaks in view
- 452 mAltitude
Habsburgwarte
Austria · 10 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 137 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,091Peaks in view
- 534 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q697578) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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