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Observation deck visibility & weather
CN Tower— is it worth paying for today?
Forecast for 2026-11-11
Worth going up today, with no clearly better hour to aim for. Clear close in, but haze trims the long-distance views.
See the full CN Tower breakdown →A city forecast tells you if it's cloudy. We compare the deck's altitude with visibility and available cloud measurements to help you choose a view worth paying for.
Burj Khalifa
Dubai
Forecast · 2026-11-12
Long, clean sightlines to the horizon
Tokyo Skytree
Tokyo
Forecast · 2026-11-12
Clear skies with little cloud
Top of the Rock
New York
Forecast · 2026-11-11
Long, clean sightlines to the horizon
Empire State Building
New York
Forecast · 2026-11-11
Long, clean sightlines to the horizon
Edge NYC
New York
Forecast · 2026-11-11
Long, clean sightlines to the horizon
One World Observatory
New York
Forecast · 2026-11-11
Golden hour — the best light of the day
SUMMIT One Vanderbilt
New York
Forecast · 2026-11-11
Long, clean sightlines to the horizon
Taipei 101
Taipei
Forecast · 2026-11-12
Long, clean sightlines to the horizon
The Shard
London
Forecast · 2026-11-11
The deck sits under the cloud layer — a grey ceiling, not a skyline
Marina Bay Sands SkyPark
Singapore
Forecast · 2026-11-12
Long, clean sightlines to the horizon
Victoria Peak
Hong Kong
Forecast · 2026-11-12
Clear skies with little cloud
sky100 Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Forecast · 2026-11-12
Closed for a major renovation; the operator has not announced a reopening date.
N Seoul Tower
Seoul
Forecast · 2026-11-12
Long, clean sightlines to the horizon
Lotte World Tower — Seoul Sky
Seoul
Forecast · 2026-11-12
Long, clean sightlines to the horizon
CN Tower
Toronto
Forecast · 2026-11-11
Clear close in, but haze trims the long-distance views
Melbourne Skydeck
Melbourne
Forecast · 2026-11-12
Clear skies with little cloud
City guidesBest deck in New York todayBest deck in Hong Kong todayBest deck in Seoul today
Every deck, to scale
Height above sea level is not the same as how tall the building is.
Drawn from sea level, not from each tower's own doorstep, with a gold line at every ticketed level. It is why N Seoul Tower's observatory — barely 190 m up its own tower — looks down on One World Observatory, 391 m above Manhattan: Namsan has already lifted it 270 m before the structure starts, and cloud does not care which of the two got you there.
- Architectural profile
- Ticketed viewing level
- Ground above sea level
Heights above sea level and every gold deck line are measured values — ground elevation from terrain data, structural heights from CTBUH or the operator, ticketed levels from the operator. Tower widths are schematic: real footprints differ by an order of magnitude, and drawing those to scale as well would reduce Burj Khalifa to a hairline. Select any tower to open its current verdict.
Beyond today’s verdict
The questions people ask before buying a ticket
Can you see it from the top?
Is the upper level worth it?
The method
How it works
- 01
Altitude, not elevation
Ground elevation plus how high the ticketed level physically sits, added together, is a deck's real viewing altitude — then we set that against where the cloud base or haze layer sits today.
- 02
One word, not a percentage
That comparison, plus operations, wind, rain and visibility, resolves to one of three verdicts — VIEW, MAYBE or SKIP — not a cloud-cover number you'd have to interpret yourself.
- 03
The hours that matter
A day is rarely uniform. When it isn't, we name the window worth going up in, instead of averaging morning, noon and evening into one number that describes none of them.