2024 Olympics Ferris wheel lighting at the Santa Monica Pier

Published on July 25, 2024

The Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel will be lit on Friday, July 26 to Sunday, August 11 in recognition of 2024 Olympics.

Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier salutes Olympic athletes over 17 nights with the Ferris wheel’s dazzling light display filled with colors, patterns and transitions that honor and commemorate the 2024 Summer Games.

The nightly light program features the five colored rings to symbolize the Olympic rings, which have represented the games internationally for over 110 years, a spectacular 90-foot-tall waving American flag to cheer on the nearly 600 athletes that make up Team USA, a French flag for the current host country and the American flag for host country 2028.

The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad and branded as Paris 2024, is scheduled to take place on NBC from July 26 to August 11. The Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics will broadcast on Sunday, August 11 at 7 p.m. PDT with a special ceremony to officially hand the guardianship of the Olympic Games to the organizers of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games that will broadcast at 10 p.m. PDT.

This special lighting event will take place on the evening of Friday, July 26 to Sunday, August 11. The Ferris wheel lights can be seen from dusk until 11:35 PM each evening. Enjoy watching the light program online at www.pacpark.com/live.

WHAT:
Special Lighting of the Pacific Wheel for 2024 Olympics

WHEN:
Friday, July 26 to Sunday, August 11
dusk (around 7:30 PM) to midnight

WHERE:
Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier

 

See the lights from home at www.pacpark.com/live.

Pacific Park regularly programs the Ferris wheel to display seasonal programing and themed light designs for holidays and special occasions. The Pacific Wheel’s state-of-the-art lighting package was installed in 2016 and can display over 1.6 million different colors and animate patterns and icons in 24 frames per second. The energy efficient LEDs on the face of the Ferris wheel are powered by solar arrays inside Pacific Park. The light programs are curated and designed by Pacific Park staff. Each design is manually animated; some designs can take hours of programming. The aim is to provide fun, high-energy, and sometimes whimsical designs to entertain guests on the Santa Monica Pier and surrounding beaches.

 

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Feature image courtesy of @alexc43