United Kingdom cliff
Hardcastle Crags
You can see 5 km from here, looking east.
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 5 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).
- 5 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 91%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 236 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 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-west82 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Febsouth-west64 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest54 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest62 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Maywest72 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Junnorth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Julnorth-west74 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Augwest66 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Sepwest50 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Octsouth-west58 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Novsouth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west92 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- 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
Hardcastle Crags.
Pennine valley in West Yorkshire, England
Hardcastle Crags is a cliff in United Kingdom, 236 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 5 km away, looking east.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 91% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from March to May and in September.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Hebden Hey Scout Centrecampsite · 0.9 km · 15 within 10 km
- The Attic B&Bplace to stay · 3.1 km · 32 within 10 km
- Hebden Bridgenearest town · 3.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Hebden BridgeBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 27 km in a straight lineCar hire at LBA airport (Leeds, West Yorkshire)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
- 5other viewpoints within 5 kmGreat Rock and 4 more
- 15named peaks within 5 kmOxenhope Stoop Hill, Yeoman Hill, Cock Hill and 12 more
- 12marked trails within 3 kmMary Towneley Loop, Calder Aire Link, Calderdale Way and 9 more
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 38car parks within 3 km
- 35restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 15campsites within 10 kmHebden Hey Scout Centre, Hebden Bridge Camping, Little Nook Farm and 12 more
- 32places to stay within 10 kmThe Attic B&B, Thorncliffe, Croft Mill and 29 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres 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 Hardcastle Crags, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas25 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas10 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls 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.
Hardcastle Crags
United Kingdom
- 34Viewyas Score
- 5 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 236 mAltitude
Peak District
United Kingdom · 44 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 347Peaks in view
- 634 mAltitude
Wheel of Manchester
United Kingdom · 34 km
- 70Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 260Peaks in view
- 49 mAltitude
Windgather Rocks
United Kingdom · 52 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 383Peaks in view
- 408 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q15223002) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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