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Denali from Anchorage · 133 mi · live

Is Denali visible from Anchorage right now?

Anchorage's own weather stations, not Talkeetna's. 133 miles from the summit at 20,310 ft.

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Right now · from Anchorage · Alaska time

Reading the airports along the sightline.

Viewpoints

Denali View SouthSunset · 96 mi
Denali View NorthSunset · 117 mi
Talkeetna RiverfrontAny light · 77 mi
Earthquake ParkSunset · 3 mi

Denali sits north-northwest of Talkeetna. In summer the sun sets in the northwest, so evening light lands on the south face you are looking at; sunrise comes from the northeast, behind the peak. The summit is 20,310 ft and airport instruments only measure cloud to about 12,000, so a clear reading here means clear below that, and the Forecast tab is the better guide for the top.

Clear windows, next three days

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Other places to look from

From Talkeetna

59 miles to the summit.

From Wasilla

114 miles to the summit.

From Denali Park

79 miles to the summit.

From Fairbanks

158 miles to the summit.

Questions

How do we know if Denali is visible?

We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Talkeetna and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 20,310 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 Wasilla get a different answer than Talkeetna?

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

Airport instruments only measure cloud to about 12,000 ft. Everything above that, on a 20,310 ft mountain, comes from the forecast model. 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 Alaska time.