IT'S OUT, PARTLY OUT or NOT TODAY for Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, Mount St. Helens, Denali, The Olympics, Mount Angeles and Mount Baldy, from Seattle, Portland, Talkeetna or wherever you check from. Read from the airport weather stations between you and the summit and from the cloud layers at the summit.
Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, Mount St. Helens, Denali, The Olympics, Mount Angeles and Mount Baldy. One verdict: IT'S OUT, PARTLY OUT or NOT TODAY. The five-day forecast, the sunrise and sunset light, and webcam images for some mountains. $1.99, one time. No subscription, no ads.
Each page reads the cloud ceilings at the airports between you and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below the summit. Low cloud and high cloud are scored separately. A thin high layer and a low deck can both read as 60% cloud, and only one of them hides the mountain.
The forecast covers five days. The last two are drawn in six-hour steps, because cloud forecasts get less reliable further out.
Mountain Visibility launched on iOS in September 2026 and covers all 8 mountains. Readings come from your location or from a town you pick. Alerts are optional. Turn them on from the Now screen to get a notification when the mountain becomes visible and one before sunrise or sunset light, two a day at most and none at night. Turn them off any time. The alerts help with photography and with deciding whether to drive to a viewpoint.
Some mountains have a webcam in the app, so you can see the summit before you trust the forecast.
What the app sends: a push token that is not linked to you, and only if you turn alerts on. No account, no ads, no location history leaves your phone. Privacy policy.
It's on the App Store and on Google Play. Both links are here.
Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, Mount St. Helens, Denali, The Olympics, Mount Angeles and Mount Baldy. Each one from the towns and viewpoints that can actually see it.
It is a forecast computed from public weather data and it can be wrong. The current reading comes from live airport observations between you and the summit. The five-day outlook comes from the MET Norway model, and the last two days are the least certain.
Cloud ceilings from NOAA aviation weather stations, cloud layers at the summit from MET Norway, smoke from NOAA NDGD. Sources are named in the app.
Yes. The Android version is on Google Play at no charge with no in-app purchases. The iOS version is $1.99 one time.
No. It tells you whether the mountain is likely to be visible. It says nothing about whether a climb, a drive or a flight is safe. Use official sources for that.
Our pick for binoculars: Vortex Diamondback HD 10x42 on Amazon
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