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Mount Baker from Seattle · 84 mi · live

Is Mount Baker visible from Seattle right now?

Read from Seattle's own weather stations. 84 miles from the summit at 10,781 ft.

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Right now · from Seattle · Pacific time
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Reading the airports along the sightline.

Viewpoints

Vancouver WaterfrontSunset · 120 mi
Kitsilano BeachSunset · 120 mi
Spanish Banks BeachSunset · 121 mi
Burnaby Mountain ParkSunrise · 117 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.

Three-day forecast and the light

The clear windows in the next three days, and the sunrise and sunset light on the summit, are in the app. $1.99, one time.

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By region

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Other places to look from

From Vancouver, BC

69 miles (111 km) to the summit.

From Surrey

55 miles (88 km) to the summit.

From Richmond

66 miles (106 km) to the summit.

From Abbotsford

29 miles (47 km) to the summit.

From Bellingham

30 miles to the summit.

From Anacortes

41 miles to the summit.

From Everett

58 miles to the summit.

From Woodinville

72 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 are not reliable past about three days, so the forecast stops there.

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.

What it can get wrong

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.