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The Olympics · Mount Constance 7,756 ft · live

Are the Olympics visible right now?

From Seattle and 5 other places. Read from the airport weather stations between you and the summit and the cloud layers at the summit.

The app

Mountain Visibility

Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, Mount St. Helens, Denali, The Olympics and Mount Angeles. Visible now or not, the three-day forecast, and the sunrise and sunset light. $1.99, one time.

Get the app, $1.99 Android is in testing. Email mountains@milecheckapp.com to be a tester.
Right now · from Seattle · Pacific time
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Reading the airports along the sightline.

Viewpoints

Golden Gardens ParkAny light · 6 mi
Sunset Hill ParkSunrise · 5 mi
Betty Bowen ViewpointSunrise · 1 mi
Alki PointAny light · 5 mi
Bremerton BoardwalkSunrise · 14 mi
Point RustonSunrise · 23 mi
Chambers BaySunrise · 31 mi

The Olympics sit west of Seattle, the opposite side from every other mountain in this app. The peaks you see are the eastern front, Mount Constance and The Brothers, not Mount Olympus, which is hidden behind them. Sunrise puts the sun behind you and lights the east faces. Sunset is a silhouette from this side, with the sun going down behind the range.

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.

Get the app, $1.99

By region

Mountain Visibility

Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, Mount St. Helens, Denali, The Olympics, Mount Angeles in one app. Shows whether the mountain is visible from where you are, the clear windows in the next three days, and the viewpoints. Made for photographers and anyone driving to a viewpoint. $1.99, one time. No account, no ads.

Get the app, $1.99 Android is in testing. Email mountains@milecheckapp.com to be a tester.
The app · iPhone
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Where are you looking from?

Each region reads its own weather stations. Twenty miles can be the difference between fog and a clear view.

From Seattle

38 miles to the summit.

From the Eastside

45 miles to the summit.

From Tacoma

48 miles to the summit.

From Everett

45 miles to the summit.

From Olympia

52 miles to the summit.

From Kitsap

27 miles to the summit.

Best time of year

Which months and which hours the mountain is most often visible from Seattle.

Questions

How do we know if the Olympics are visible?

We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Seattle and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 7,756 ft. No crowd reports.

Why only three days?

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

Why does the Eastside get a different answer than Seattle?

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). Smoke from NOAA NDGD. Times are Pacific time. Not affiliated with the National Park Service or any public agency.