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Mount Baker from Richmond · 66 mi · live

Is Mount Baker visible from Richmond right now?

Richmond's own weather stations, not Vancouver, BC's. 66 miles from the summit at 10,781 ft.

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Right now · from Richmond · Pacific time

Reading the airports along the sightline.

Viewpoints

Vancouver WaterfrontSunset · 9 mi
Kitsilano BeachSunset · 8 mi
Spanish Banks BeachSunset · 8 mi
Burnaby Mountain ParkSunrise · 12 mi

Baker sits ESE of Vancouver, BC (bearing about 120°), so sunset is the safer bet year-round. The sun sets well behind you and lights the west face. Sunrise works most of the year too, but near the winter solstice the sun comes up only about 6° off the summit bearing, almost directly behind the peak, so you are looking into the glare instead of the color. That glare window is winter here, not the equinoxes.

Clear windows, next three days

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Sunrise and sunset light

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Other places to look from

From Vancouver, BC

69 miles to the summit.

From Surrey

55 miles to the summit.

From Abbotsford

29 miles to the summit.

From Bellingham

30 miles to the summit.

From Anacortes

41 miles to the summit.

Questions

How do we know if Mount Baker is visible?

We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Vancouver, BC and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 10,781 ft. No crowd reports.

Why only three days?

Cloud forecasts stop being useful after about three days. A ten-day visibility forecast is a calendar with random numbers on it.

Why does Surrey get a different answer than Vancouver, BC?

Different weather stations, different sky. The same morning can be fog in one and clear in the other, twenty miles apart. Each region page reads its own stations.

Limitations

Wildfire smoke and haze can hide the mountain on a day the cloud numbers say clear. When the numbers are unsure, the page says so.

Observations from NOAA aviation weather. Forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0). Times are Pacific time.