Canada Ferris wheel
Grande roue de Montréal
You can see 130 km from here, looking south-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 130 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).
- 130 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 34Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 13 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 34 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 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.
- Jansouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Febwest16 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Marwest22 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Sepwest22 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Octwest20 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- 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 Montréal.
Ferris wheel in Montréal
Grande roue de Montréal is a Ferris wheel in Canada.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 130 km away, looking south-east.
34 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Mansfield (1,340 m), 122 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Halte de véhicules récréatifs de la Marina de Longueuilcampsite · 4.1 km · 2 within 10 km
- Embassy Suitesplace to stay · 0.9 km · 232 within 10 km
- Vieux-Montréalnearest town · 0.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Vieux-MontréalBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Montréal / Saint-Hubert Metropolitan Airport (YHU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 10 km in a straight lineCar hire at YUL airport (Montréal)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
- 40other viewpoints within 5 kmBelvédère Léo-Ayotte, Pont Jacques Cartier, Du chemin qui marche and 37 more
- 6named peaks within 5 kmSommet de Westmount, Colline d'Outremont, Mont-Royal and 3 more
- 2marked trails within 3 kmPassage Concordia, RESO
- 131shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1,019car parks within 3 km
- 8visitor centres within 5 kmCentre Infotouriste de Montréal, Infotouriste, Pavillon d'information and 5 more
- 1,298restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmHalte de véhicules récréatifs de la Marina de Longueuil, Espace VR Molson
- 232places to stay within 10 kmEmbassy Suites, Westin, Hyatt Place Montréal – Downtown and 229 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 Montréal, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Grande roue de Montréal
Canada
- 74Viewyas Score
- 130 kmFarthest ridge
- 34Peaks in view
- 13 mAltitude
Montreal Tower
Canada · 6 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 127 kmFarthest ridge
- 35Peaks in view
- 43 mAltitude
Mount Washington
United States · 224 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 94Peaks in view
- 1,907 mAltitude
Portland Observatory
United States · 332 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 112 kmFarthest ridge
- 77Peaks in view
- 44 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q36693848) · 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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