Canada observation tower
Calgary Tower
You can see 115 km from here, looking south-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 115 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).
- 115 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 88Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,058 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 88 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 July to August.
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-west14 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Febwest14 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest12 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- 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
Calgary Tower.
Observation tower in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary Tower is an observation tower in Canada, 1,058 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 115 km away, looking south-west.
88 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Assiniboine (3,618 m), 113 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Calgary Marriott Downtown Hotelplace to stay · 0.1 km · 99 within 10 km
- Downtown Commercial Corenearest town · 0.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Downtown Commercial CoreBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Calgary International Airport (YYC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 9 km in a straight lineCar hire at YYC airport (Calgary)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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmTom Campbell's Hill, Scotsman's Hill, Evamy Ridge and 10 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmSouth Station, North Station
- 1marked trails within 3 kmCalgary Plus 15
- 487shelters and huts within 5 kmMusic Pavilion and 486 more
- 1,262car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmInformation Center, Campus Service Centre, Inglewood Bird Sanctuary and Nature Centre and 1 more
- 596restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 99places to stay within 10 kmCalgary Marriott Downtown Hotel, Hotel Arts, Executive Suites by Roseman - Keynote and 96 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- campsites within 10 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 Calgary Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Calgary Tower
Canada
- 71Viewyas Score
- 115 kmFarthest ridge
- 88Peaks in view
- 1,058 mAltitude
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Weeping Wall
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- 36Viewyas Score
- 44 kmFarthest ridge
- 12Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1026689) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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