China summit
Victoria Peak
You can see 150 km from here, looking 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 150 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).
- 150 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 40%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 49Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 530 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 49 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.
- Jansouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon26%
- Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon21%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon29%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon38%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- 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
Victoria Peak.
Mountain in Hong Kong
Victoria Peak is a summit in China, 530 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 150 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 40% of the horizon.
49 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Lantau Peak (934 m), 24 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in October.
Get there and stay
- 香港傷健協會賽馬會傷健營 Hong Kong PHAB Association Jockey Club PHAB Campcampsite · 1.5 km · 12 within 10 km
- 香港置地文華東方酒店 The Landmark Mandarin Oriental Hong Kongplace to stay · 1.5 km · 504 within 10 km
- Mid Levelsnearest town · 1.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Mid LevelsBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 24 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
- 59other viewpoints within 5 kmOcean Vista, 司徒拔道眺望處 Stubbs Road Lookout, 西高山觀景台 Mt. High West Viewing Point and 56 more
- 33named peaks within 5 km扯旗山 Victoria Peak, 西高山 High West, 奇力山 Mount Kellett and 30 more
- 19cable car and funicular stations within 5 km山頂纜車 Peak Tram, 海洋列車 Ocean Express and 17 more
- 15marked trails within 3 kmAberdeen Nature Trail, Pok Fu Lam Family Walk, Wan Chai Green Trail and 12 more
- 425shelters and huts within 5 km九號涼亭 Pavilion 9, 七號涼亭 Pavilion 7, 十三號涼亭 Pavilion 13 and 422 more
- 129car parks within 3 km
- 8visitor centres within 5 km香港仔樹木廊 Aberdeen Tree Centre, 香港旅遊發展局 Hong Kong Tourism Board, 香港酒店業協會 Hong Kong Hotels Association and 5 more
- 911restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 km香港傷健協會賽馬會傷健營 Hong Kong PHAB Association Jockey Club PHAB Camp, 香港女童軍新德倫山莊 Hong Kong Girl Guides Sandilands Centre, 香港基督教青年會南丫島戶外及環保活動中心 YMCA Lamma Island Outdoor Centre and 9 more
- 504places to stay within 10 km香港置地文華東方酒店 The Landmark Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, The Bauhinia Hotel, 中遠酒店 Cosco Hotel and 501 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 Victoria Peak, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas182 mountains within 25 km
Coastya7 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas3 forests and trees 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.
Victoria Peak
China
- 88Viewyas Score
- 150 kmFarthest ridge
- 49Peaks in view
- 530 mAltitude
Lok Ma Chau Garden
China · 27 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 46 mAltitude
Sky100 Hong Kong Observation Deck
China · 4 km
- 55Viewyas Score
- 31 kmFarthest ridge
- 40Peaks in view
- 13 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q17541) · 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, Coastya, Lakeyas, 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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