Finland Ferris wheel
SkyWheel Helsinki
You can see 36 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 36 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).
- 36 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 34%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 11Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 6 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 in May and 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Febsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- 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
SkyWheel Helsinki.
Ferris wheel in Helsinki, Finland
SkyWheel Helsinki is a Ferris wheel in Finland.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 36 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 34% of the horizon.
11 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mustakorvenkallio (114 m), 26 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in May and from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Th 10:00-21:00; Sa 10:00-23:00; Su 10:00-20:00; Fr 10:00-22:00 · ticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Käärmesaaren keittokatoscampsite · 7.5 km · 18 within 10 km
- StayAtplace to stay · 0.3 km · 118 within 10 km
- Kruununhakanearest town · 0.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KruununhakaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Helsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 17 km in a straight lineCar hire at HEL airport (Helsinki)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
- 86other viewpoints within 5 kmSuomenlinnan kuivatelakan katseluterassi, Mölylän kallio, Sinisen huvilan kahvila and 83 more
- 14named peaks within 5 kmUllanlinnanmäki, Rajakallio, Mäntymäki and 11 more
- 6marked trails within 3 kmReitti 2000, Korkeasaaren reittisuositus, Sininen reitti and 3 more
- 358shelters and huts within 5 kmSörnäinen (M) and 357 more
- 799car parks within 3 km
- 11visitor centres within 5 kmSuomenlinnakeskus, Italian kulttuuri-instituutti, Eckerö Line Check-In and 8 more
- 1,138restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 18campsites within 10 kmKäärmesaaren keittokatos and 17 more
- 118places to stay within 10 kmStayAt, Hotel Haven, Eurohostel and 115 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 SkyWheel Helsinki, 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
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls 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.
SkyWheel Helsinki
Finland
- 67Viewyas Score
- 36 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
Viewpoint Maahisenkierros
Finland · 26 km
- 54Viewyas Score
- 32 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 96 mAltitude
Turist Information Centre Kauppatori
Finland · 0 km
- 44Viewyas Score
- 14 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 12 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q24866579) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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