United Kingdom observation tower
Glasgow Tower
You can see 72 km from here, looking south-east.
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 72 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).
- 72 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 50Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 50 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-west14 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Febsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Junnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Julnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Augnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Octwest12 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Novsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- 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
Glasgow Tower.
Observation tower in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK
Glasgow Tower is an observation tower in United Kingdom.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 72 km away, looking south-east.
50 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Ben More (1,174 m), 61 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Going upticket requiredOfficial site↗
- Jubilee Caravan Parkcampsite · 2.7 km · 3 within 10 km
- Devoncove Hotelplace to stay · 0.9 km · 160 within 10 km
- Glasgownearest town · 2.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in GlasgowBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Glasgow Airport (GLA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 9 km in a straight lineCar hire at GLA airport (Glasgow)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 kmMackintosh Tower, Hill Street Viewpoint Garnethill and 11 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmGolfhill, Broom Hill, Sighthill
- 5marked trails within 3 kmClyde Walkway, Kelvin Walkway, City Centre Mural Trail and 2 more
- 42shelters and huts within 5 km
- 868car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmKelvingrove Park Ranger Centre, Pollok Park Visitor Centre, Visit West End
- 712restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmJubilee Caravan Park, Dunroman Caravan Park, Craigendmuir Holiday Park
- 160places to stay within 10 kmDevoncove Hotel, Glasgow Youth Hostel, Britannia Inn and 157 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 Glasgow Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas7 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls 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.
Glasgow Tower
United Kingdom
- 60Viewyas Score
- 72 kmFarthest ridge
- 50Peaks in view
- 1 mAltitude
Ben Nevis
United Kingdom · 113 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 167 kmFarthest ridge
- 290Peaks in view
- 1,327 mAltitude
Snaefell
Isle of Man · 178 km
- 85Viewyas Score
- 194 kmFarthest ridge
- 437Peaks in view
- 614 mAltitude
Scafell Pike
United Kingdom · 171 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 239Peaks in view
- 967 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3533344) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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