Hungary Ferris wheel
Budapest Eye
You can see 47 km from here, looking north.
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 47 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).
- 47 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 20Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 115 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 20 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-west16 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Febwest16 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Marwest24 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Aprwest20 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Maynorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Julnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Augwest22 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Sepwest24 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Octwest20 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Novsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- 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
Budapest Eye.
Ferris wheel in Budapest, Hungary
Budapest Eye is a Ferris wheel in Hungary, 115 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 47 km away, looking north.
20 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kékes (1,014 m), 83 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% 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.Official site↗
- Haller Campingcampsite · 3.4 km · 5 within 10 km
- City Hotel Pilvaxplace to stay · 0.5 km · 534 within 10 km
- Budapest V. kerületnearest town · 0.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Budapest V. kerületBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 km in a straight lineCar hire at BUD airport (Budapest)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
- 111other viewpoints within 5 kmAlagút, keleti bejárat, Zikkurat, József-hegyi kilátó and 108 more
- 16named peaks within 5 kmGellért-hegy, Sas-hegy, Kecske-hegy and 13 more
- 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 18marked trails within 3 kmZ▲ (Gellért-hegyi gerinc – Gellért-hegy, Citadella), Z, Budai Zöld (Szent Gellért tér – Nagykovácsi – Telki, Rákóczi Ferenc utca aut., Mária-út, M01-21 (Budapest, Szent Anna-rét – Vár – Rákosszentmihály) and 15 more
- 519shelters and huts within 5 kmNépligeti sportközpont, Oltalom Karitatív Egyesület and 517 more
- 596car parks within 3 km
- 14visitor centres within 5 kmBudapest Card Centre, Esernyős, Országház Látogatóközpont and 11 more
- 1,844restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmHaller Camping, Ave Natura, Hawai Camping and 2 more
- 534places to stay within 10 kmCity Hotel Pilvax, Wombat's City Hostel, Leo Boutique Rooms and 531 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 Budapest Eye, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas45 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas87 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.
Budapest Eye
Hungary
- 60Viewyas Score
- 47 kmFarthest ridge
- 20Peaks in view
- 115 mAltitude
Boldog Özséb Observation Tower
Hungary · 25 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 238 kmFarthest ridge
- 246Peaks in view
- 755 mAltitude
Gellért Hill
Hungary · 1 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 80 kmFarthest ridge
- 23Peaks in view
- 222 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q16522986) · 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, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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