United Kingdom Ferris wheel
Wheel of Birmingham
You can see 72 km from here, looking north.
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 72 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).
- 72 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 43Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 146 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 43 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 March to May and in September.
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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Augnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- 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
Wheel of Birmingham.
Ferris wheel in Birmingham, Birmingham, England, UK
Wheel of Birmingham is a Ferris wheel in United Kingdom, 146 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 72 km away, looking north.
43 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Moel y Gamelin (577 m), 107 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from March to May and in September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Malmaisonplace to stay · 0.4 km · 227 within 10 km
- Birminghamnearest town · 0.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BirminghamBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Birmingham Airport (BHX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at BHX airport (Birmingham, West Midlands)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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 km
- 20marked trails within 3 kmGrand Union Canal Walk, Balsall Heath Tree Trail East, Balsall Heath Tree Trail West and 17 more
- 27shelters and huts within 5 kmUmbrella and 26 more
- 661car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmCanal & River Trust Customer Service Centre, Local Travel information, Network Rail and 2 more
- 558restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 227places to stay within 10 kmMalmaison, AC Hotel, SACO Birmingham Serviced Apartments and 224 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Wheel of Birmingham, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Wheel of Birmingham
United Kingdom
- 63Viewyas Score
- 72 kmFarthest ridge
- 43Peaks in view
- 146 mAltitude
Windgather Rocks
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- 383Peaks in view
- 408 mAltitude
Peak District
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- 347Peaks in view
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The Wheel of Liverpool
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- 76Viewyas Score
- 125 kmFarthest ridge
- 358Peaks in view
- 12 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q248555) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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