Taiwan observation deck
Xiaowulai Skywalk
You can see 10 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 10 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).
- 10 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 84%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 362 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 from July to 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-west52 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Febwest46 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Marwest40 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Aprwest24 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Maywest18 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Julnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Augwest20 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwest30 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octwest40 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west50 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Decsouth-west50 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- 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
Xiaowulai Skywalk.
Observation deck in Taoyuan City
Xiaowulai Skywalk is an observation deck in Taiwan, 362 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 10 km away, looking south-west.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Baishi Shan (596 m), 9 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 84% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- 流霞谷親水烤肉區campsite · 1.8 km · 21 within 10 km
- 宿舍place to stay · 0.4 km · 12 within 10 km
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- Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 35 km in a straight lineCar hire in TaipeiDiscover 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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 km東眼山瞭望台, 水泥拱橋, 觀瀑樓 and 10 more
- 24named peaks within 5 km東眼山, 枕頭山, 良羽鳥山 and 21 more
- 20shelters and huts within 5 km角板亭, 避難小屋, 賞櫻庭 and 17 more
- 13car parks within 3 km
- 7visitor centres within 5 km新溪口吊橋溪口端遊客管理中心, 角板山行館遊客服務中心, 復興區遊客服務中心 and 4 more
- 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 21campsites within 10 km流霞谷親水烤肉區, 山大王營地, 山大王露營區 and 18 more
- 12places to stay within 10 km宿舍, 羅浮國小宿舍, 羅浮高中宿舍 and 9 more
- 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 Xiaowulai Skywalk, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas214 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 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.
Xiaowulai Skywalk
Taiwan
- 34Viewyas Score
- 10 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 362 mAltitude
Xueshan
Taiwan · 48 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 219Peaks in view
- 3,864 mAltitude
Sky Dream
Taiwan · 86 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 197Peaks in view
- 248 mAltitude
Chingshui Cliff
Taiwan · 71 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 47Peaks in view
- 190 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q10959632) · 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, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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