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Baku Ferris Wheel

You can see 24 km from here, looking east.

54Viewyas Score

Ferris wheelSea view360°

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 24 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.

54out 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).

  • 24 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
  • 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 22%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • -28 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 August 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.

  1. Jansouth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  2. Febwest40 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  3. Marwest34 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  4. Aprwest34 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  5. Maywest32 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  6. Junnorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  7. Julnorth-west32 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  8. Augwest34 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  9. Sepwest32 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  10. Octwest36 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  11. Novsouth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  12. Decsouth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  • 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

Baku Ferris Wheel.

Ferris wheel in Baku, Azerbaijan

Baku Ferris Wheel is a Ferris wheel in Azerbaijan.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 24 km away, looking east.

The sea fills 22% of the horizon.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from August to September.

Şeytan Çarxı
Tofiq005(Tofiq Vəliyev) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Baku Ferris WheelGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Baku Ferris WheelBooking.comSee prices Car hire at GYD airport (Baku)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Baku Ferris Wheel 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

  • 11other viewpoints within 5 kmŞəlalə Parkı, Abu Park, Mənzərə nöqtəsi / Bayıl and 8 more
  • 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmBakı funikulyoru and 5 more
  • 1marked trails within 3 km
  • 11shelters and huts within 5 kmKöşk / Gazebo and 10 more
  • 164car parks within 3 km
  • 10visitor centres within 5 kmEuro Tourism, Luks travel, Məlumat Mərkəzi İçəri Şəhər and 7 more
  • 569restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmalliance business center(alliance plaza) and 8 more
  • 463places to stay within 10 kmEast Legend Panorama, Azəri İçəri Şəhər, Hotel "Hale Kai" and 460 more
  • named peaks 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 Baku Ferris Wheel, and what is near.

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

Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Badamdar Dağı238 m · 4.3 kmGora Atashkya270 m · 6.7 kmLökbatan Mud Volcano130 m · 12 kmNişangah Dağı243 m · 12 kmBakı Qulaqları Dağı384 m · 19 kmQızılqaya Dağı229 m · 19 kmBozdağ309 m · 20 kmGora Deseboyn254 m · 23 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Şıx Çimərliyi · 7.2 km
Lakeyas5 lakes within 15 km
Qanlıgöl1.1 km² · 3.3 kmOzero Gadzhi-Gasan1.6 km² · 6.8 kmOzero Krasnoye3.6 km² · 10 kmLake Boyukshor12 km² · 10 kmBulbula1.2 km² · 14 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Botanical Park in Baku · 2.2 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Gurd yuvasi cave · 16 km

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.

Ferris wheel Baku
Saidaa444 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Night Time In Baku (120729477)
Albert Bergonzo · CC BY-SA 3.0
BBMM, Baku (P1090265)
Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q15953300) · 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 atlasesPeakyas, Coastya, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Cavernyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit