United States scenic viewpoint
Whale Watching Center
You can see 19 km from here, looking south-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 19 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).
- 19 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 34%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 24 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
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 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset61%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset60%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- 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
Whale Watching Center.
Tourist attraction in Oregon, USA
Whale Watching Center is a scenic viewpoint in United States, 24 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 19 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 34% of the horizon.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: We-Su 10:00-16:00Official site↗
- Boiler Bay RV Parkcampsite · 2.4 km · 10 within 10 km
- Channel Houseplace to stay · 0.1 km · 14 within 10 km
- Depoe Baynearest town · 0.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Depoe BayBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Salem-Willamette Valley Airport/McNary Field (SLE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 84 km in a straight lineCar hire at EUG airport (Eugene)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
- 20other viewpoints within 5 kmAlsea Avenue Scenic View Area, Lee Street Scenic View Area, Vista Street Scenic View Area and 17 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmSiletz Hill
- 1marked trails within 3 kmOregon Coast Trail
- 4shelters and huts within 5 km
- 24car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmDepoe Bay Chamber of Commerce
- 13restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 10campsites within 10 kmBoiler Bay RV Park, Fogarty Creek RV Park, Holiday Hills and 7 more
- 14places to stay within 10 kmChannel House, SCP Depoe Bay, Whales Rendezvous B&B and 11 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 Whale Watching Center, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas16 mountains within 25 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.
Whale Watching Center
United States
- 54Viewyas Score
- 19 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 24 mAltitude
Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint
United States · 6 km
- 58Viewyas Score
- 65 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 147 mAltitude
Mount Hood
United States · 196 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 37Peaks in view
- 3,376 mAltitude
Vista House
United States · 164 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 99 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 220 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5260679) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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