United Kingdom observation tower
Hoober Stand
You can see 108 km from here, looking north.
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 108 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).
- 108 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 54Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 154 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 54 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, in September and in December.
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-west12 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Augnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Octwest12 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Decsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
Hoober Stand.
Tower in Wentworth, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Hoober Stand is an observation tower in United Kingdom, 154 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 108 km away, looking north.
54 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Urra Moor (454 m), 105 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May, in September and in December.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Ferryboat Farm Fisheries And Camp Sitecampsite · 7.3 km · 4 within 10 km
- Premier Inn Barnsleyplace to stay · 3.9 km · 40 within 10 km
- Wentworthnearest town · 1.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in WentworthBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 46 km in a straight lineCar hire at LBA airport (Leeds, West Yorkshire)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 kmStone Circle
- 1marked trails within 3 kmBarnsley Boundary Walk
- 28shelters and huts within 5 km
- 47car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmVisitor Centre, Old Moor Visitor Centre
- 12restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmFerryboat Farm Fisheries And Camp Site, Greensprings Touring Park and 2 more
- 40places to stay within 10 kmPremier Inn Barnsley, Home, Fitzwilliams Arms Hotel and 37 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 Hoober Stand, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas3 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.
Hoober Stand
United Kingdom
- 68Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 54Peaks in view
- 154 mAltitude
Peak District
United Kingdom · 34 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 347Peaks in view
- 634 mAltitude
Stanage Edge
United Kingdom · 22 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 96 kmFarthest ridge
- 24Peaks in view
- 425 mAltitude
Windgather Rocks
United Kingdom · 46 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 383Peaks in view
- 408 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5897380) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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