United Kingdom observation tower
Blackpool Tower
You can see 105 km from here, looking north-west.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 105 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 105 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 30%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 480Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 21 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 480 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are from April to May.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Blackpool Tower.
Observation tower and entertainment complex in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Blackpool Tower is an observation tower in United Kingdom, 21 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 105 km away, looking north-west.
The sea fills 30% of the horizon.
480 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Snowdon (1,085 m), 107 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Newton Hall Caravan Parkcampsite · 3.6 km · 51 within 10 km
- Arlingtonsplace to stay · 0.4 km · 1,097 within 10 km
- Blackpoolnearest town · 0.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BlackpoolBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 55 km in a straight lineCar hire at LPL airport (Liverpool)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 3other viewpoints within 5 kmViewing platform across the mere, Duck feeding area
- 1named peaks within 5 kmWarbreck
- 1marked trails within 3 kmLancashire Coastal Way
- 34shelters and huts within 5 kmTin Hide, Feeding Station Hide, Roller Shutter Hide and 31 more
- 274car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmRanger Base, Visit Blackpool, Stanley Park Visitor Centre
- 174restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 51campsites within 10 kmNewton Hall Caravan Park, Marton Mere Holiday Village, Thornfield Holiday Camp and 48 more
- 1,097places to stay within 10 kmArlingtons, Del Savannah, Blackpool FC Stadium Hotel and 1,094 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Blackpool Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Blackpool Tower
United Kingdom
- 78Viewyas Score
- 105 kmFarthest ridge
- 480Peaks in view
- 21 mAltitude
The Wheel of Liverpool
United Kingdom · 47 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 125 kmFarthest ridge
- 358Peaks in view
- 12 mAltitude
Scafell Pike
United Kingdom · 72 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 239Peaks in view
- 967 mAltitude
Snaefell
Isle of Man · 104 km
- 85Viewyas Score
- 194 kmFarthest ridge
- 437Peaks in view
- 614 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q880905) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Coastya, Forestyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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