Mexico Ferris wheel
Estrella de Puebla
You can see 102 km from here, looking 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 102 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).
- 102 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 11Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,116 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 11 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 December to March.
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.
- Janwest4 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset70%
- Marwest18 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Maywest18 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Julwest18 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset71%
- 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
Estrella de Puebla.
Tourist attraction in Puebla, Mexico
Estrella de Puebla is a Ferris wheel in Mexico, 2,116 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 102 km away, looking east.
11 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Citlaltepetl (5,636 m), 101 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from December to March.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Watoosicampsite · 15 km · 3 within 10 km
- Virreyesplace to stay · 3.1 km · 231 within 10 km
- Pueblanearest town · 3.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PueblaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Hermanos Serdán International Airport (PBC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 20 km in a straight lineCar hire at PBC airport (Puebla)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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 kmCallejón de los sapos
- 1marked trails within 3 km
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 109car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 361restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmWatoosi
- 231places to stay within 10 kmVirreyes, La Fuente, Aristos Hotel and 228 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 Estrella de Puebla, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas157 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 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.
Estrella de Puebla
Mexico
- 73Viewyas Score
- 102 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 2,116 mAltitude
Popocatépetl
Mexico · 41 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 5,391 mAltitude
Iztaccihuatl
Mexico · 46 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 5,193 mAltitude
Citlaltepetl
Mexico · 101 km
- 87Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 7Peaks in view
- 5,579 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q16492970) · 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, 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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