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Denali from Wasilla · 114 mi · live

Is Denali visible from Wasilla right now?

Read from Wasilla's own weather stations. 114 miles from the summit at 20,310 ft.

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Right now · from Wasilla · Alaska time
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Reading the airports along the sightline.

Viewpoints

Denali View SouthSunset · 75 mi
Denali View NorthSunset · 91 mi
Talkeetna RiverfrontAny light · 56 mi
Earthquake ParkSunset · 32 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.

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Other places to look from

From Talkeetna

59 miles to the summit.

From Anchorage

133 miles to the summit.

From Denali Park

79 miles to the summit.

From Fairbanks

158 miles to the summit.

Road cameras and conditions

Denali Park Road access and Parks Highway cameras, with reports within 60 miles of Denali.

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 five days?

Cloud forecasts get less reliable the further out they go. Days four and five are drawn in six-hour steps for that reason, and the forecast stops at five.

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.

What it can get wrong

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.
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