United Kingdom summit
Scafell Pike
You can see 183 km from here, looking 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 183 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).
- 183 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 12%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 239Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 967 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 239 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 April to May.
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-westsets on an open horizon21%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon24%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon30%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon29%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Augnorth-westsets on an open horizon24%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon26%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon24%
- 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
Scafell Pike.
Highest mountain in England
Scafell Pike is a summit in United Kingdom, 967 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 183 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 12% of the horizon.
239 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Helvellyn (950 m), 15 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Wasdale Head Campsitecampsite · 3.2 km · 20 within 10 km
- Thorneythwaite Farmplace to stay · 6.9 km · 77 within 10 km
- Amblesidenearest town · 16 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AmblesideBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Isle of Man Airport (IOM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 101 km in a straight lineCar hire at BLK airport (Blackpool)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
- 4other viewpoints within 5 kmScafell Pike, Bad Step and 2 more
- 57named peaks within 5 kmCold Pike, Hard Knott, Illgill Head (summit) and 54 more
- 3marked trails within 3 kmSeatoller, Styhead Tarn and Grains Gill Walk, North Lakes Outdoors, Pillar Trail from Wasdale Head, North Lakes Outdoors, Scafell Pike via Hollow Stones Route, North Lakes Outdoors
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 2car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmWasdale & Scafell Pike
- 20campsites within 10 kmWasdale Head Campsite, Wasdale Campsite, Seathwaite Farm Campsite and 17 more
- 77places to stay within 10 kmThorneythwaite Farm, Yew Tree Farm, Nook Farm and 74 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés 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 Scafell Pike, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas235 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas11 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas6 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.
Scafell Pike
United Kingdom
- 80Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 239Peaks in view
- 967 mAltitude
Snaefell
Isle of Man · 84 km
- 85Viewyas Score
- 194 kmFarthest ridge
- 437Peaks in view
- 614 mAltitude
Blackpool Tower
United Kingdom · 72 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 105 kmFarthest ridge
- 480Peaks in view
- 21 mAltitude
The Wheel of Liverpool
United Kingdom · 118 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 125 kmFarthest ridge
- 358Peaks in view
- 12 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1146222) · 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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