France Ferris wheel
Grande Roue de Marseille
You can see 41 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 41 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).
- 41 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 8%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 19Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 0 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 19 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset61%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- 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
Grande Roue de Marseille.
Ferris wheel in Marseille
Grande Roue de Marseille is a Ferris wheel in France.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 41 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 8% of the horizon.
19 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Signal des Béguines (1,148 m), 35 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.
- Camps de protection de la forêtcampsite · 7.7 km · 1 within 10 km
- La Residence du Vieux Portplace to stay · 0.1 km · 185 within 10 km
- Marseille 02nearest town · 0.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Marseille 02Booking.com · sponsored link↗
- Marseille Provence Airport (MRS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 20 km in a straight lineCar hire at MRS airport (Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône)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
- 62other viewpoints within 5 kmToit de la Cité Radieuse, Vue sur le Château d'If and 60 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmMont Rouvière, Sommet de l'Île d'If, Notre-Dame de la Garde
- 2marked trails within 3 kmSentier de grande randonnée 2013, De Castellane à la Bonne Mère par les Traviolles
- 391shelters and huts within 5 kmPrado Saint-Giniez, Capelette Rabatau, Capelette La Poste and 388 more
- 436car parks within 3 km
- 8visitor centres within 5 kmOffice de Tourisme et des Congrès, Frioul If Express, Gare Routière Marseille-Saint-Charles and 5 more
- 1,059restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmCamps de protection de la forêt
- 185places to stay within 10 kmLa Residence du Vieux Port, Hôtel Belle-Vue, New Hôtel Le Quai Vieux-Port and 182 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 Grande Roue de Marseille, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas43 mountains within 25 km
Coastya29 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas4 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.
Grande Roue de Marseille
France
- 65Viewyas Score
- 41 kmFarthest ridge
- 19Peaks in view
- 0 mAltitude
Falaises Soubeyranes
France · 20 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 72 kmFarthest ridge
- 28Peaks in view
- 351 mAltitude
Mont Ventoux
France · 97 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 239 kmFarthest ridge
- 525Peaks in view
- 1,893 mAltitude
Phare de la méditerranée
France · 119 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 121Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q79897599) · 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, Coastya, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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