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Temple of Five Lords

You can see 46 km from here, looking north-west.

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 46 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.

52out of 100

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).

  • 46 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 20 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 1 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 October.

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.

  1. Janwest4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  2. Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  3. Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  4. Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  5. Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  6. Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  7. Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  8. Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  9. Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  10. Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  11. Novwest6 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  12. Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  • 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

Temple of Five Lords.

Buildings in Haikou, Hainan, China

Temple of Five Lords is a scenic viewpoint in China, 20 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 46 km away, looking north-west.

1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Wuzhi Mountain (1,840 m), 141 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in October.

Five officials haikou 2010 01
Rolfmueller · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

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.

Temple of Five Lords seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 54places to stay within 10 km全季酒店, 7天连锁酒店, 江畔人家 and 51 more
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Temple of Five Lords, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Haikou Volcanic Cluster Global Geopark · 16 kmHainan Dao Volcanic Field · 16 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Hongcheng Lake0.3 km² · 1.2 kmShapo Reservoir0.4 km² · 7.0 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Garden in Wugong Ci
Wwbread · CC BY-SA 4.0
20240505 Wugong Ci (124544)
Yumeto · CC BY-SA 4.0
20240505 Wugong Ci (130655)
Yumeto · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q826816) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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