China observation tower
Macau Tower
You can see 92 km from here, looking north-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 92 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).
- 92 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 65Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 4 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 65 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 October to December.
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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Aprwest20 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Maywest22 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Junnorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Julwest22 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Augwest20 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- 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
Macau Tower.
Observation tower in Macau
Macau Tower is an observation tower in China.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 92 km away, looking north-east.
65 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Lantau Peak (934 m), 40 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from October to December.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Fr 10:00-21:00Official site↗
- 天沐河露营地campsite · 5.0 km · 5 within 10 km
- 澳門之家 Home of Macauplace to stay · 1.5 km · 199 within 10 km
- São Lourençonearest town · 1.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in São LourençoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Macau International Airport (MFM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 7 km in a straight line
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
- 16other viewpoints within 5 km大潭山眺望台 Miradouro da Taipa Grande, 观景台, 半邊橙 Meia Laranja and 13 more
- 14named peaks within 5 km大潭山 Taipa Grande, 小潭山 Taipa Pequena, 大马骝洲山 and 11 more
- 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 km山上纜車站 Estação Superior do Teleférico, 山下纜車站 Estação Inferior do Teleférico, 斜行電梯L3 and 3 more
- 4marked trails within 3 km大潭山步行徑 Trilho da Taipa Grande, 林茂塘空中走廊, 基馬拉斯大馬路空中走廊 Travessia Pedonal da Avenida de Guimarães and 1 more
- 69shelters and huts within 5 km伯樂亭 Pavilhão da Alegria, 碧香亭 Quiosque das Flores Cheirosas and 67 more
- 116car parks within 3 km
- 8visitor centres within 5 km旅客詢問處 Informações Turísticas, 学生服务中心, 澳門商務旅遊中心 Macau Government Tourist Office and 5 more
- 353restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 km天沐河露营地, 九澳水庫戶外體驗營 Zona de Campismo e Diversões da Barragem de Ká-Hó, 星乐度·露营小镇 and 2 more
- 199places to stay within 10 km澳門之家 Home of Macau, Ole Tai Sam Un, San Va Hospedaria and 196 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 Macau Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 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.
Macau Tower
China
- 68Viewyas Score
- 92 kmFarthest ridge
- 65Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Victoria Peak
China · 63 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 150 kmFarthest ridge
- 49Peaks in view
- 530 mAltitude
Dra. Laurinda M. Esparteiro Viewing Platform
China · 4 km
- 54Viewyas Score
- 68 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 13 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1568304) · 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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