United States Ferris wheel
Wonder Wheel
You can see 73 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 73 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).
- 73 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 25%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 30Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 4 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 30 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 July to 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- 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
Wonder Wheel.
Ferris wheel in Coney Island
Wonder Wheel is a Ferris wheel in United States.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 73 km away, looking north-west.
The sea fills 25% of the horizon.
30 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pochuck Mountain (364 m), 85 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Camp Gateway - Staten Islandcampsite · 7.0 km · 5 within 10 km
- Harbor Motor Innplace to stay · 2.7 km · 40 within 10 km
- Coney Islandnearest town · 1.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Coney IslandBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 km in a straight lineCar hire at JFK airport (New York)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
- 3other viewpoints within 5 kmWhite Island Lookout, Mud Flat Lookout
- 18shelters and huts within 5 km
- 154car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmThe Salt Marsh Nature Center
- 182restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmCamp Gateway - Staten Island, Goldenrod Campground, Tamarack Campground and 2 more
- 40places to stay within 10 kmHarbor Motor Inn, Comfort Inn, Ruby & Emrys and 37 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 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 Wonder Wheel, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Coastya5 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas2 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.
Wonder Wheel
United States
- 76Viewyas Score
- 73 kmFarthest ridge
- 30Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Statue of Liberty
United States · 14 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 58 kmFarthest ridge
- 24Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
The Palisades
United States · 44 km
- 44Viewyas Score
- 43 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 0 mAltitude
High Rock
United States · 317 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 166 kmFarthest ridge
- 49Peaks in view
- 572 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1465377) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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